Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation's bank account

Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by throwaway210222 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:10AM (#28454045)

> Obviously none allow it

Really?

1. Augustine Pinochet was arrested in London, UK on the principle of - and you'll love this one - universal juristiction.

2. the following countries have some form of universal juristiction: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Senegal, Spain, United Kingdom, USA [1]

3. the USA passed the PEESA act [2] in their own congress/parliament where they grant themselves the right to unliterally decide - for the the entire of Europe - which natural gas suppliers are allowed to send gas to Europe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction

[2] https://www.state.gov/protecting-europes-energy-security-act...

So what's one more?

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Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by sneak on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:01AM (#28454738)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Skripal

The FSB also seems to get to (try to) assassinate certain crown subjects on British soil without consequence if they want to badly enough.

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Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by throwaway210222 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:58AM (#28455061)

To be fair to the Russians: he was also a Russian citizen and the US has long established the right to wipe their own citizens on foreign soil without a peep from the UK. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

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Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by sneak on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:00PM (#28459890)

The fact that the US treats their citizenry as personal property, able to be snuffed out by assassination at any time without due process, does not in any way whatsoever normalize or justify Russia doing the same.

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