Analysis: How British police arrested Julian Assange without breaking international law
A police vehicle is parked outside the Ecuadoran Embassy in London after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody on April 11. By Adam Taylor Adam Taylor Foreign reporter who writes about a variety of subjects Email Bio Follow April 11 at 8:30 AM For almost seven years, Julian Assange has lived in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.
On social media, some supporters of Assange said the act was in violation of the Vienna Convention, an international accord that dictates how host countries should treat diplomats and embassies on their soil. Assange, an Australian citizen, had claimed political asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in 2012.
It is also why British authorities did not enter the Ecuadoran Embassy for years, even though they were prepared to arrest Assange the moment he left and the surveillance came at considerable cost to the British state. The British Foreign Office even argued in 2012 that it had the right to revoke the embassy’s diplomatic status under the country’s Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act, passed in 1987, but it ultimately did not carry through on this threat.
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