Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuador Embassy here since 2012, was allowed limited Internet access by the South American nation, seven months after it disabled for alleged breach of asylum terms, Wikileaks has announced.

The 47-year-old Australian, who remains in hiding in a back room of the Ecuadorean Embassy in central London six years after losing a legal battle against extradition to Sweden, was told that his "isolation regime" would be ended following talks between UN officials and Ecuador President Lenin Moreno last week.