By\u00a0Joe Lauria<\/strong> The Twitter account of Christine Assange, the mother of the arbitrarily detained founder of WikiLeaks, has been restricted, she told\u00a0Consortium News<\/strong>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cMy Twitter account has been \u2018blocked due to \u2018unusual activity,’\u201d Ms. Assange wrote in a text message. Twitter, however, has provided her no reason for its action.<\/p>\n Ms. Assange is a prolific user of Twitter in her campaign to free her son who has been a refugee in the Ecuador embassy in London since 2012.<\/p>\n Twitter has posted the following message on her page:<\/p>\n While a user can access her page by agreeing to view her profile, Ms. Assange told\u00a0Consortium News<\/strong>she is unable to post new Tweets to her account nor see anyone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n Her last post, at 11:55 am on Tuesday in Australia, where she lives, is a retweet of an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0published about her son. She posted 12 tweets in the past 24 hours. \u201cInteresting that it followed on from a day of my tweets about free speech and calling on journalists globally to stand up for Julian,\u201d Ms. Assange said in a text message.<\/p>\n Clinton and Bolton<\/strong><\/p>\n In the past ten days, Ms. Assange tweeted direct replies to Hillary Clinton and John Bolton, the U.S. national security adviser. Bolton had tweeted on March 9: \u201cUS military should use\u00a0<\/span>#Wikileaks<\/a>\u00a0for cyber warfare target practice. Take down their capabilities & prevent further harm to nat\u2019l security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Assange\u2019s reply to Bolton is no longer visible under his tweet. \u00a0Nine replies to Bolton are now \u201cunavailable.\u201d Ms. Assange said in a text message that her reply began by calling Bolton\u2019s tweet, \u201cFascist talk!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Christine Assange with Ecuador chancellor Ricardo Pati\u00f1o in Quito, July 30, 2012.\u00a0(Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In response to the New Zealand massacre, Clinton tweeted on March 15: \u201cMy heart breaks for New Zealand & the global Muslim community. We must continue to fight the perpetuation and normalization of Islamophobia and racism in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n Ms. Assange directly replied to Clinton: \u201cHang on Hillary! My son, published your pre Presidential run bragsheet \u2018Tick Tock\u2019 (email) on\u00a0 Clinton was \u201cin nauseating false sympathy,\u201d Ms. Assange said in a text message.<\/p>\n Under Congressional Pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n Twitter uses algorithms unknown to the public to remove, block, suspend or restrict accounts of its users. Like other social media companies, Twitter has come under intense U.S. congressional\u00a0pressure<\/a>\u00a0to censor accounts deemed hostile to U.S. interests.<\/p>\n Julian Assange has remained in the embassy to avoid arrest by British authorities for skipping bail from an investigation by Sweden that has since been dropped. He has not been charged with a crime by either Sweden or Britain.<\/p>\n Assange was granted political asylum by the previous government of Ecuador seven years ago. The current government, however, has made it known it wants him to leave and has made various moves to force him out. \u00a0His contact with the outside world has been restricted. \u00a0Twitter deleted his account on March 28, 2018. British authorities have not permitted him to leave the embassy for urgent medical treatment without being arrested.<\/p>\n Assange fears that if he is arrested by London police once he leaves the embassy that he will be extradited to the United States where a secret grand jury is preparing an indictment against him, most likely under the Espionage Act. Grand jury proceedings are still underway in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom.<\/p>\n
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