Re:Wikileaks' Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum
by icebraining on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:04PM
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In what way is hosting Assange and allowing him to blog "incompatible with the functions of the mission as laid down in the present Convention or by other rules of general international law or by any special agreements in force between [Equador and the UK]" ?
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Re:Wikileaks' Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum
by dragonwriter on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:14PM
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Hosting him is (probably) not, in and of itself.
Allowing him to blog per se also not.
Allowing him to blog (and, even moreso materially supporting him in so doing) in a manner directed at influencing the internal politics of the UK, however, is, because such interference (aside from any participation in it being expressly prohibited to protected diplomatic personnel by Sec. 1 of Art. 41) is universally understood in international law to be incompatible with the function of a diplomatic outpost.