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On 25/08/2012 01:35, Stefano Vaj wrote:
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href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/police_plan_for_assange/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/police_plan_for_assange/</a><br
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<<<b>Police mistake reveals plan for Assange's Embassy
capture</b><br>
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The Economist had a nice article about the legal mess of the
situation:<br>
<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21560881">http://www.economist.com/node/21560881</a><br>
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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". <br>
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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.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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