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Originally Posted by Damien
Well first of all it's improper to grant Diplomatic Asylum anyway so Ecuador could be said to have rode roughshod over diplomatic protocol. It's also not proper to grant asylum for people on the grounds they face investigation for sexual assault.
However abiding by our own laws is not against diplomatic protocol no matter how many times people assert it to be so. Ecuador will be fully entitled to defend themselves in court if we took that route, which we haven't yet.
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I don't think it's right, but I'm not sure if it's improper. Second, it remains to be seen how the local law sits with international law, so there may well be an issue there.
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Finally if we do ignore Assange then we're breaking our legal obligation to Sweden. We we're in a catch-22 situation. I don't think we should let someone accused off sexual assault go without facing investigation because we're scared of a diplomatic row.
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I don't think anyone is saying we should let him go. He can stay where he is, and he will be arrested if he attempts to come out. I just don't think we should risk an international diplomatic row over attempting to smoke out someone who (and whose alleged offences) in the greater scheme of things doesn't matter one bit.