Assange has been scheduled to be interrogated by Sweden today (October 17th) since at least mid-September [1]. Both the internet outage and the pre-commitments are likely related to that. For more analysis (and the evaluate the evidence yourself), follow along at https://www.opensynthesis.org/boards/14/who-cut-wikileaks-fo...
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/julian-assange-question...