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Originally Posted by Damien
I don't think rape is a minor offence and what is he accused of doing would still be rape here. Sex without the woman's consent.
However it doesn't matter from the UK's point of view. We're not the ones pressing charges. We're executing our legal obligation to extradite him, it's not out job to decide if such a request is serious enough. He has been afforded due process and we have followed the law.
We can't just let it drop.
Sorry but revoking a embassy status is different to storming the embassy. For a start we wouldn't be breaking any international conventions as you said earlier.
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But we would be breaking international conventions if we revoked the diplomatic status, and that would be unprecedented. What's more, while rape clearly is a serious crime, we need to weigh up the seriousness of that offence against the unprecedented move of revoking diplomatic status. In that context, I do think that rape is a relatively minor issue. It is not a matter of national safety or something like that, and it's going to look very odd to other nations if the UK is suddenly saying that they will revoke diplomatic status pretty much at will.