[ExI] Police mistake reveals plan for Assange's Embassy capture

[Anders Sandberg]

On 25/08/2012 01:35, Stefano Vaj wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/police_plan_for_assange/
>
> <<*Police mistake reveals plan for Assange's Embassy capture*

The Economist had a nice article about the legal mess of the situation:
http://www.economist.com/node/21560881

It points out that the right grant asylum in embassies is not part of 
the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. Apparently Latin 
America is the only region where the practice is well established 
(despite countless fictional stories about people hiding safely in the 
US or Soviet embassy). And the International Court of Justice has issued 
a ruling that "diplomatic asylum can exist only under explicit treaties 
or reciprocal usage".

It also looks at the bad fit of Assange and Ecuador. Perhaps a good 
result of the whole mess is that Rafael Correa will find it harder 
tocrack down on media and the judiciary at home.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University

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