Enlarge / WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepares to speak from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy on February 5, 2016 in London, England. Today, he can’t get online. (credit: Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

WikiLeaks announced via its Twitter account this morning that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s Internet connection had been cut off, blaming a “state party” for the outage. Assange, who has been ensconced in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since he sought asylum there over four years ago to avoid extradition, has been “detained in absentia” by the Swedish government on suspicion of rape and other lesser charges.

The announcement comes after the postponement of an interview of Assange by Swedish authorities at the Ecuadorian embassy by Ecuador’s Attorney General’s office. The interview, which was to take place today, was pushed back by Ecuador until November 17 “to make it possible for Assange’s lawyer to attend.”

WikiLeaks also announced that it had “activated the appropriate contingency plans” in response to the communication outage. That plan may be related to other posts made from the WikiLeaks account overnight referring to three “precommitments”—one regarding the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (UK FOS), one labeled “John Kerry,” and one labeled “Ecuador.” The posts included long alphanumeric strings that may have been hashes or keys.