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The founder of WikiLeaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London in February 2016. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls

For more than six years, Julian Assange has been a refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and relations between the Wikileaks co-founder and the government in Quito are becoming increasingly tense. The latter has drawn up a protocol of conduct that no more to the Australian activist who launched Friday a legal action against Ecuador.

With our correspondent in Quito , Eric Samson

He is known as the embassy cat. This feline is all a celebrity in social networks with thousands of fans on Twitter and a profile on Instagram.

Paws! Catfight is about to start! But somehow it looks like #samelitter! https://t.co/UBH4F7giuD #clinton #trump pic.twitter.com/fIN4zA7zL2

Embassy Cat (@EmbassyCat) September 27, 2016

For two years, the cat is the mascot of Assange but apparently it does not care too much, at least if we believe the protocol of behavior of some ten pages that the government of Quito wishes to see Assange respect.

Beyond the cat and the desire to see Assange contribute to the cleanliness of the toilet, this protocol also regulates the visits, communications and medical attention of the Australian hacker. After cutting off his internet connection and his communications last March, the authorities now allow him to connect to the Wifi of the embassy.

More framed visits

Assange will only be able to receive three people at a time and visitors will have to ask for an authorization with at least three days of anticipation except in the event of a medical emergency. Assange will no longer be able to make political declarations that could be considered as an interference in the internal affairs of other countries.

One of his lawyers, the Spanish judge Balthazar Garzon, said on Friday that his client is inhuman. He asks for the suspension of the application of the protocol of behavior. Ecuadorian judges have 48 hours to decide.