Washington: Ecuador's President has accused Julian Assange of hosting numerous hackers at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to give them directions on how to propagate information on topics important to the WikiLeaks founder and his financiers.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016. Credit:AP

President Lenin Moreno also said on Tuesday in Washington that arrested Swedish programmer Ola Bini was one of those hackers who visited Assange many times.

Bini lives in Quito and was detained last week just hours after Moreno evicted Assange from the embassy allowing him to be arrested by British authorities. Moreno said Bini hacked phones and online accounts belonging to both private citizens and Ecuador's government.

In Quito earlier in the day, Bini's parents made an anxious plea for authorities to release their son while expressing confidence he did nothing wrong.