Mugabe had dispatched her legal representatives to claim diplomatic immunity.
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Her diplomatic immunity saved her from prosecution at the time.
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Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country shortly after.
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Canadian authorities haven't previously said he was protected by diplomatic immunity.
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Davies, who has diplomatic immunity under international law, was not charged.
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Neither Sporyshev nor Podobnyy was arrested because they had diplomatic immunity.
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MORE took the compounds, which previously enjoyed diplomatic immunity, last December.
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Obama says the bill would undermine decades-old diplomatic immunity protections.
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She has claimed diplomatic immunity and fled to the United States.
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But because of diplomatic immunity, the diplomat could not be charged.
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He claimed diplomatic immunity and left New Zealand to avoid prosecution.
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It is often cited as a means to provide diplomatic immunity.
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After dropping two new singles "God's Plan" and "Diplomatic Immunity," on Jan.
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That large presence means more positions offering spies cover and diplomatic immunity.
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They both had diplomatic immunity from the charges and left the country.
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The authorities did not arrest Colonel Hall because he had diplomatic immunity.
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According to the Vienna agreement - which was debated - they have diplomatic immunity.
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The Hungarian government effectively has granted IIB directors and staff diplomatic immunity.
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Israel, for its part, refused to turn over the guard, claiming diplomatic immunity.
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She and her family claimed diplomatic immunity to flee the country shortly afterward.
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The U.S. woman involved in the crash later left Britain, invoking diplomatic immunity.
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Bakar said the North Korean embassy wouldn't be searched as they had diplomatic immunity.
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Jordan insisted on questioning the security guard, while Israel said he had diplomatic immunity.
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He could not be charged with espionage because he was protected by diplomatic immunity.
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South Africa granted Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity, a security source told Reuters on Friday.
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But she abruptly left Britain, claiming diplomatic immunity and setting off an international uproar.
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Mugabe's legal representatives, including officials from Zimbabwe's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, invoked diplomatic immunity.
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After the incident, Anne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity and returned to the United States.
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Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country in the aftermath of the incident.
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The diplomat's wife, Anne Sacoolas, left Britain under a disputed claim of diplomatic immunity.
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Therefore, Erdogan argued that diplomatic immunity should be waived and the suspects tried in Istanbul.
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December 2017: Ecuador grants Assange citizenship in a failed effort to give him diplomatic immunity.
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Marsigny said his client, who has not appeared in court so far, has diplomatic immunity.
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The resolution calls on the State Department to withdraw any diplomatic immunity for those involved.
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Pakistani officials have demanded that the United States waive diplomatic immunity for the attaché, Col.
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The Vatican lifted Ventura's diplomatic immunity in July so he could be questioned by prosecutors.
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Earlier on Monday, Beijing dismissed Trudeau's statement that Kovrig enjoyed some form of diplomatic immunity.
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Trudeau complained last week that China was not respecting Kovrig's diplomatic immunity, but gave no details.
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Because she is the wife of a US diplomat, she was originally protected by diplomatic immunity.
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But within days she had been whisked out of the country after being granted diplomatic immunity.
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Local police and lawmakers initially speculated that diplomatic immunity prevented the U.S. from holding the men.
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"We believe that diplomatic immunity was a natural and appropriate extension to Ambassador Lorenzo," he said.
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However, she and her family have since returned home to the US after claiming diplomatic immunity.
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She denied the charges, but was granted diplomatic immunity before she could make a court appearance.
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She and her family claimed diplomatic immunity to return to the US shortly after the collision.
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The five investigators — human rights experts from Colombia, Chile, Spain and Guatemala — were granted diplomatic immunity.
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Sacoolas initially cooperated with local police after the crash, but later said she had diplomatic immunity.
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NOTE: Fashion Armageddon: Utility Kilt plugin requires a Level 3 TS security clearance and/or diplomatic immunity.
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Podobnyy was charged with espionage but avoided prosecution because he had diplomatic immunity and left the US.
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Although consulates do not have the same level of diplomatic immunity as embassies, this is still significant.
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"Tim Dunn, the victim's father, also told Sky News that Sacoolas' departure under diplomatic immunity was "appalling.
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In any event, lawyers for the United Nations have told the Philippines that she has diplomatic immunity.
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Rattled diplomats and spies make mistakes, the types of mistakes that are not covered by diplomatic immunity.
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"It should have been up to a court to determine whether diplomatic immunity applied," Mr. Grange said.
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Erdogan added that the Vienna Convention offering diplomatic immunity was a "matter of debate" in this case.
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While she originally cooperated with the police, she left the country three weeks later claiming diplomatic immunity.
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Israel said the guard had opened fire in self-defense after being stabbed and had diplomatic immunity.
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It's unlikely that any nation would let Asgardia operate its own embassy operating with diplomatic immunity, Listner said.
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Dunn's parents demanded answers, and media attention soon led some to question Sacoolas's ability to claim diplomatic immunity.
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On January 5th he barred Yilen Osorio, a CICIG investigator with diplomatic immunity, from re-entering the country.
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Children of people with diplomatic immunity are not automatically granted citizenship despite being born in the United States.
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The men, who initially claimed diplomatic immunity, were security guards at the Iranian Mission to the United Nations.
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And once those globe-trotting cats are on the Russians' property, they enjoy diplomatic immunity, Mr. Newman said.
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The US intelligence official&aposs wife claimed diplomatic immunity and returned to the United States, sparking international controversy.
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Pakistani officials had been demanding that the United States waive Colonel Hall's diplomatic immunity, but American officials refused.
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The State Department has said that Ms. Sacoolas is covered by diplomatic immunity and will not be extradited.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Trump to reconsider a decision to let the wife use diplomatic immunity.
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WikiLeaks founder Assange, an Australian, is in self-exile with diplomatic immunity at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the guard a hero's embrace after Israel brought him home under diplomatic immunity.
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The track and its B-side, "Diplomatic Immunity," were released in January as Scary Hours and debuted at Nos.
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South African police confirmed on Wednesday that Mugabe, 52, remained in the country and had applied for diplomatic immunity.
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"And because of the diplomatic immunity they left very easily, without having any problem with the luggage," he added.
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Sacoolas left the United Kingdom in September after Dunn's death, claiming she is protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday urged the U.S. to reconsider giving diplomatic immunity to the diplomat's wife.
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It deals with such things as providing visas, acquiring property and extending diplomatic immunity in matters of criminal wrongdoing.
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The spokesperson added that the U.S. has been clear that the driver had status that gave her diplomatic immunity.
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Foreign diplomats enjoy diplomatic immunity and are technically not viewed legally as "under the jurisdiction" of the United States.
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Mr Rademeyer, an expert on the trading of ivory and rhino horn, acknowledges that diplomatic immunity can stymie the police.
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Diplomatic immunity would allow him to leave the embassy without the possibility of being arrested for jumping bail in 2012.
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" Drake's previous release was the two-song EP Scary Hours back in January, which produced "God's Plan" and "Diplomatic Immunity.
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Jordanian authorities say they suspect the shooting was unprovoked but could not investigate the guard due to his diplomatic immunity.
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Assange, an Australian national, was given Ecuadorian citizenship in January of 2018 during an attempt to give him diplomatic immunity.
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Sacoolas left Britain under a claim of diplomatic immunity that has become a point of contention between the two countries.
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The organization has refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the cholera lawsuits, asserting that it has diplomatic immunity from them.
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The Trump administration is considering removing the diplomatic immunity previously granted to the facilities, according to the Washington Post report.
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It appears that Clinton never looked into Abu Omar's claims of torture or considered De Sousa's plea for diplomatic immunity.
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Ashe, 61, has only been charged with tax fraud, as prosecutors have said diplomatic immunity may preclude any bribery charges.
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Hungary: The country has effectively granted a Russian bank diplomatic immunity from any scrutiny by the police or financial regulators.
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Under the deal, the government recognised the "international legal personality" of the IIB, giving its directors and staff diplomatic immunity.
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A third suspect, Hyon Kwang-song, a second secretary at the embassy, has diplomatic immunity and could not be arrested.
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A judge rejected the archbishop's claim of diplomatic immunity, noting that Israel and the Vatican did not have diplomatic ties.
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" The Trump administration, Mr. Seiger said, had "tried to twist and contort the laws on diplomatic immunity to argue that Mrs.
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In questioning Mr Kovrig, China did not respect "the principles of diplomatic immunity", says Mr Trudeau, referring to the Vienna Convention.
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Jordan wanted to question the guard, who was slightly hurt, but Israel said he had diplomatic immunity and should be repatriated.
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"This would have been a good result," President Moreno said Sunday about the plan to give Assange citizenship and diplomatic immunity.
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"The Minister has made the determination that the conferring of diplomatic immunity is warranted in this particular instance," the statement said.
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It does not encompass all the names of people in the UK with the right to diplomatic immunity, the source added.
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The State Department said Wednesday that a diplomat accused of hacking Republican donor Elliot Broidy's emails is entitled to diplomatic immunity.
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As of Monday, all couples in the department must be married to receive family benefits, including diplomatic passports and diplomatic immunity.
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The charges were eventually dropped after Montenegro became independent from Serbia in 2006 and Italian courts granted Mr. Djukanovic diplomatic immunity.
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A former Canadian diplomat, he had taken a leave from the ministry two years ago, and no longer enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
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Britain made a formal request for a waiver of diplomatic immunity to the United States Embassy in London on Sept. 5.
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Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the U.S. to reconsider giving diplomatic immunity to Anne Sacoolas in the case.
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Those captures proved controversial with the Iraqi government, which often granted Quds Force members diplomatic immunity and insisted on their release.
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Turkey says that the crime was committed in its territory and was so heinous that there can be no diplomatic immunity.
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A more serious implication of diplomatic immunity has been in the news this week, around the tragic death of a British teenager.
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An American official's wife is suspected of being involved in a car crash that killed him and is sheltering under diplomatic immunity.
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They are also taking legal action against the British government for its decision to honor Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity, according to the Times.
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Dunn's tragic death has now become a diplomatic dispute after Sacoolas fled Britain and returned to the United States, citing diplomatic immunity.
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The U.S. government later declined a police request to waive the employee's diplomatic immunity, the New Zealand Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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Jordanian officials have said they want to question the guard, but Israel is refusing to allow that, noting the guard's diplomatic immunity.
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A security source told Reuters on Friday that the wife of 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe had been granted diplomatic immunity.
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Moreover, the Vienna agreement and other international laws all object to questioning about such a vicious murder being hidden through diplomatic immunity.
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But Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity protections and fled the U.K. She has not been seen in public since, The Daily Beast reported.
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The woman cooperated in the initial investigation, but then claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country before the investigation could be finished.
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Johnson has previously said he wants Sacoolas to return to Britain and that she was wrong to use diplomatic immunity to leave.
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The medical examiner's reference to "diplomatic immunity" raised an additional question: How could a dead man could enjoy any immunity at all?
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However, he lost that job — and thus his diplomatic immunity — as the result of the Yemeni civil war in the mid-1990s.
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We would never put a US citizen, without diplomatic immunity, in harm's way this way, especially looking after low-level things like this.
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" However, the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a letter written to Dunn's family that Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity "is no longer pertinent.
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Obiang claims diplomatic immunity, but prosecutors have said the charges relate to his private life in France and not to his official functions.
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"Diplomatic Immunity," Drake's first solo song since last summer, follows letting listeners in on the perks and the downsides of the rapper's lifestyle.
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His parents want Sacoolas, who left Britain under a disputed claim of diplomatic immunity, to return to England to speak to the police.
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Argentina's foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday that the Crown Prince will not be arrested on arrival in the country because he has diplomatic immunity.
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Diplomatic immunity, for example, allows staff to be granted safe passage in and out of the country and are generally safe from prosecution.
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An American woman who claimed diplomatic immunity after a fatal accident and then left Britain is now willing to be interviewed, officers said.
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But the State Department said on Thursday that Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity and that to extradite her would set "an extraordinarily troubling precedent".
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An Indian foreign ministry spokesman said the man, who was released from custody under diplomatic immunity rules, must leave the country by Saturday.
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The pair traveled to the US in mid-October to meet with President Donald Trump and urge him to waive Sacoolas's diplomatic immunity.
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Why it matters: The saga has "sparked outrage in Britain, thrusting the concept of diplomatic immunity under the spotlight," the Washington Post writes.
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Trudeau asserted diplomatic immunity in both French and English answers to a question but did not elaborate on why Kovrig is entitled to it.
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August 2017: Grace Mugabe is accused of assaulting a young woman at an upscale hotel in neighboring South Africa but is granted diplomatic immunity.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged President Donald Trump to reconsider a decision to let Sacoolas use diplomatic immunity to leave the country.
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Obama maintains JASTA would undermine decades-old diplomatic immunity protections guaranteed by a 1976 law and complicate the U.S.' foreign policy goals and alliances.
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Two of the men left the country before the court proceedings and both had diplomatic immunity because of their jobs for the Russian government.
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Mugabe's attorneys informed authorities that she had "changed her mind" about speaking to police and subsequently requested diplomatic immunity, according to a police statement.
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Sources from both the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and prime minister's office told Insider that Sacoolas had the right to diplomatic immunity, however.
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Becker, 50, has claimed diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings in London by taking up a role with Central African Republic as a sports envoy.
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Because of his diplomatic immunity — the position of papal nuncio is equivalent to ambassador — prosecutors have been unable to question Ventura about the allegations.
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Pakistan officials have demanded the United States waive his diplomatic immunity so that he can face a criminal trial, but American officials have refused.
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The State Department has said that Sacoolas is protected under diplomatic immunity and that extraditing her back to Britain would set the wrong precedent.
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The wife of 93-year-old Robert Mugabe, a potential successor to the president, was granted diplomatic immunity and left South Africa on Sunday.
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The 48-year-old vice president is the only member of the group with diplomatic immunity who was not included in the search operation.
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Police say the woman cooperated in their initial investigation but then claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country before the investigation could be finished.
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It's unclear whether Turkish bodyguards allegedly involved in the attack will face charges, thanks to diplomatic immunity rules that would likely protect Erdogan's staff.
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Britain has turned down Ecuador's request to grant Mr. Assange diplomatic immunity, which would allow him to leave the embassy without fear of arrest.
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UK police said Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity in the aftermath of the crash that killed Harry Dunn, 19, and left the country three weeks later.
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As it stands, prosecution is difficult — thanks to diplomatic immunity and other rules in place, the police lack access to most of the Parliament's officials.
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Amman had previously demanded a homicide trial for the guard, whose repatriation under diplomatic immunity and hero's welcome by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered Jordanians.
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During police investigations Sacoolas and her family claimed diplomatic immunity to return home to the US, despite her telling police she would comply with questioning.
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Read more: The wife of a US diplomat suspected of killing a UK teen in a car crash claimed diplomatic immunity to flee the country
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The diplomat's home country can cancel this immunity, but the US State Department said on Saturday that diplomatic immunity is "rarely waived," the BBC reported.
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Pretoria granted Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity, allowing her to avoid prosecution; the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, is challenging that immunity in court.
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But because he was assigned to Russia's U.N. mission, Podobnny received diplomatic immunity and left the U.S. without facing the charges, according to court records.
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Kovrig is still technically employed by the Canadian foreign affairs department but because he took a leave of absence, he does not have diplomatic immunity.
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However, she was granted diplomatic immunity by South Africa's former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, allowing her to leave the country.
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That's even more true on the better of the two songs, "Diplomatic Immunity," full of acutely-singed boasts and threats delivered with the utmost casualness.
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"I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose," the prime minister added.
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He is employed by the United Nations, which contends that diplomatic immunity does not absolve its employees from the need to obey United States laws.
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"This case sends a strong message that diplomatic immunity does not equal impunity," said Martina Vandenberg, head of the Washington-based Human Trafficking Legal Center.
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LONDON – Retired tennis star Boris Becker is claiming his role as a sports attache for the Central African Republic gives him diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings.
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After the revolution, my family was able to use that house, and the diplomatic immunity applied to it, to grant sanctuary to people fleeing the island.
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The ministry memo said any staffer who traveled to Iran for personal reasons would not be shielded by diplomatic immunity, even if holding a diplomatic passport.
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As gatekeepers to the most fraught housing market in the country, I can only assume San Francisco real estate brokers have some sort of diplomatic immunity.
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On Monday, foreign minister Dominic Raab told parliament Britain was reviewing the rules which govern diplomatic immunity arrangements for U.S. personnel at the air force base.
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A few weeks later, the United States requested that Capella's diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for possible prosecution there, but the Vatican refused.
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Lorenzo, who was appointed deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic in 2004, had previously sought to dismiss the charges against him on diplomatic immunity grounds.
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Sacoolas and her family claimed diplomatic immunity to leave the UK days after the crash, despite her promising to stay to be questioned at the time.
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"Those compounds enjoyed diplomatic immunity, which meant that U.S. law enforcement could not enter and activities that took place there could escape U.S. prosecution," Waters added.
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The Rome Statute "is in conflict and inconsistent with" South Africa's law giving sitting leaders diplomatic immunity, Mr. Masutha said at a news conference on Friday.
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Islam has limited diplomatic immunity and was ordered to surrender his passport when he appeared in court, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown in a statement.
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Though protected by diplomatic immunity, they are accused of breaking the law as they did not have the special permits foreigners needed to visit the area.
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To date, Ashe has only been charged with tax fraud in connection with the bribes, amid questions about whether diplomatic immunity may preclude any bribery charges.
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Intelligence services, including the C.I.A., routinely assign agents to work in foreign embassies in the guise of diplomats, largely because of the protections of diplomatic immunity.
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Becker said he has claimed diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings in London by taking up a role with Central African Republic (CAR) as a sports envoy.
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Such immunity is granted by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, though the principle of diplomatic immunity has existed far longer than that in international relations.
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"I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose," Johnson told the BBC last week.
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Those differences are compounded when the employer, as is sometimes the case in Washington, is a global leader, foreign diplomat, or U.S. politician, or enjoys diplomatic immunity.
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The wife of an American diplomat in the UK who was involved in a fatal collision with a British teenager claimed diplomatic immunity to flee the country.
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The US is said to be weighing the idea of allowing the Russians to occupy the buildings without diplomatic immunity, meaning American law enforcement officials could enter.
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In theory, a domestic worker could sue, but diplomatic immunity complicates litigation; even if a court ordered her employers to pay, collecting on it would be arduous.
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The building, filled with gilded halls that can be rented for events, enjoys a kind of diplomatic immunity courtesy of its owner: the government of North Korea.
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Sitting foreign leaders normally enjoy diplomatic immunity in other countries, but the US and dozens of other nations recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate president.
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South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party has asked the Constitutional Court for permission to argue its case that Grace Mugabe's diplomatic immunity be declared unconstitutional.
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Diplomatic immunity case: President Trump met at the White House with the parents of a 19-year-old who was killed in a car crash in Britain.
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Upon discovering the allegations, the Vatican removed him from the country and invoked his diplomatic immunity to avoid trial in the Dominican Republic, despite that country's appeals.
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Swift said those governments could dismiss their diplomats but extend their diplomatic immunity, giving them cover to conduct espionage or other illicit activities without fear of reprisal.
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One of the two men, Hyon Kwang-song, is a high-ranking embassy employee who claims diplomatic immunity and, as a result, is untouchable by the police.
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In 2009, the first lady escaped charges through diplomatic immunity after allegedly assaulting a British journalist who tried to photograph her while she was shopping in Hong Kong.
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Earlier this year, she got in trouble for allegedly assaulting a young woman in South Africa, needing to use diplomatic immunity to return home without going on trial.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former tennis champion Boris Becker has claimed diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings by taking up a role with the Central African Republic as a sports envoy.
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Then, on Sunday, Raab wrote to Dunn's parents to say that now that the woman was back in the United States she no longer qualified for diplomatic immunity.
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Islam, who has limited diplomatic immunity, was ordered to surrender his passport by the district supreme court justice, according to a statement by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
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However, she did note that their diplomatic immunity lapsed when they left the country, and they would be subject to arrest if they returned to the United States.
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According to broadcaster ABC, Dr Craig Challen and Dr Richard Harris were given diplomatic immunity ahead of the risky mission, after negotiations between Australian and Thai Government officials.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday urged the U.S. to reconsider giving diplomatic immunity to a diplomat's wife linked to a fatal car accident, the BBC reported.
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The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has said he does "not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose".
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She was given diplomatic immunity and left Britain shortly after the accident, setting off a dispute between London and Washington over whether she should return to face investigation.
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The case before the United Nation's highest court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, is seen as an important test of the limits of diplomatic immunity.
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For years, it's given him effective diplomatic immunity, though his presence and habits have annoyed Ecuador, and then Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa called his stay "untenable" in January.
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The city's Office of Chief Medical Examiner said earlier on Friday that it would not publicly disclose the cause and manner of Churkin's death because of diplomatic immunity laws.
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"I have now asserted diplomatic immunity ... in order to bring this farce to an end, so that I can start to rebuild my life," he said in a statement.
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The Turkish security guards who attacked protesters outside of the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday can claim diplomatic immunity — but that doesn't mean they have it.
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Diplomatic immunity is given to diplomats around the world to ensure they're able to carry out their mission without fear of prosecution or persecution under the host country's laws.
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Sliti said on March 30 that Kartas had traveled in a private capacity on his Tunisian passport, meaning he was not entitled to diplomatic immunity and could be arrested.
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If they're discovered by foreign intelligence abroad they have no diplomatic immunity, putting them at risk of being arrested, thrown in prison or, in a worst-case scenario, executed.
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Erdogan, who also said the issue of diplomatic immunity would also be discussed in regards to the case, was speaking at a meeting of his AK Party in parliament.
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The United States government, however, said it was notified about that change in early 1995, after she was born, and stopped considering him covered by diplomatic immunity only then.
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The U.N. Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals said in a ruling on Tuesday that as a U.N. judge, Akay enjoyed diplomatic immunity and his imprisonment violated judicial independence.
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They have set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise £10,000 ($12,327) and vowed to set up a legal campaign to prevent people from claiming diplomatic immunity in such circumstances.
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In a three-page letter dated October 22, 2012 written by De Sousa's attorney at the time, Bradley Moss, Clinton was urged to invoke diplomatic immunity for De Sousa.
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Sacoolas' legal right to claim diplomatic immunity came under scrutiny earlier this week as her husband's name does not appear on the UK's official list of diplomats in London.
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They continue to seek justice after the main suspect Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American intelligence official stationed in the UK, claimed diplomatic immunity and fled to America.
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She said the decision was taken by Jeffrey Castelli, a former Rome CIA station chief who was one of three CIA officers whose claims to diplomatic immunity were accepted.
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" Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Mr. Trump described the death as "a terrible accident," adding that it was "a very, very complex issue because we're talking about diplomatic immunity.
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It also highlights the challenge facing American officials who must navigate potential diplomatic immunity claims, not to mention political repercussions, even as they pledge to hold those involved accountable.
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Harry Dunn: An American woman who claimed diplomatic immunity after an accident that killed a 19-year-old British man is now willing to be interviewed by the police.
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Diplomatic immunity is a cornerstone of international law and allows diplomats and their families to avoid civil and criminal prosecution while in a foreign country in their official capacity.
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In fact, diplomatic immunity and privileges would apply to Mr. Churkin's immediate family members "for a reasonable period of time," according to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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Sacoolas, 42, was given diplomatic immunity and left Britain shortly after the accident, setting off a dispute between London and Washington over whether she should return to face investigation.
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"It is unfortunate that China has arbitrarily and unfairly detained two Canadian citizens, and indeed in one of the cases is not respecting the principles of diplomatic immunity," Trudeau said.
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" TRUMP: "So, what we're going to do — it's a very, very complex issue, as you know, because we're talking about diplomatic immunity, which, in itself, is quite a subject, right?
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Ecuador thought it had found the solution when it granted Assange citizenship earlier this month, hoping that the UK would recognize some kind of diplomatic immunity for the WikiLeaks personality.
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The younger Toure was also a leader of the political opposition party in Guinea, although he has no diplomatic immunity or status, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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New Zealand has expelled a U.S. diplomat after Washington declined to waive his right to diplomatic immunity after an "incident" which gave him a broken nose and a black eye.
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"Boris Johnson also criticized Sacoolas' departure on Monday, saying: "I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose.
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"These tools include smuggling drugs, liquor, and precious stones, counterfeiting US dollars and cigarettes and exploiting diplomatic immunity," said Moriuchi, a former top National Security Agency official on East Asia.
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But advocates for victims have argued that the Vatican's invocation of diplomatic immunity to recall the Italian monsignor from the United States shows that it still prioritizes protecting its own.
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Mr. Becker, 50, is trying to fend off creditors who forced him into bankruptcy last year, but instead of the usual debtor's defense of insolvency, he is claiming diplomatic immunity.
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And on Friday, United Nations officials were served with a reminder that their effort to shield the organization from Haiti cholera lawsuits by asserting diplomatic immunity might not necessarily work.
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The complaint says that Mr. Rashid "enjoys limited diplomatic immunity with respect only to those acts undertaken in his official capacity" and "this conduct" was not within his official capacity.
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In 2009 Mrs Mugabe left Hong Kong under diplomatic immunity after she was accused of punching a news photographer who had dared to snap her in a high-end shopping district.
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Australia's Attorney General has said he would not allow the lawsuit, lodged by activist lawyers in Melbourne on behalf of Australia's Rohingya community, to proceed because Suu Kyi had diplomatic immunity.
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The charges against her were dismissed because she had diplomatic immunity, but after she left the United States, a New York grand jury later issued a new indictment for visa fraud.
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He urged Wallington to bear in mind that Pell voluntarily returned to Australia from the Vatican to face the charges, rather than using the diplomatic immunity to which he was entitled.
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The incident threatened to turn into a diplomatic row when Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva suggested it was so serious the Iraqi brothers might forfeit their diplomatic immunity from prosecution.
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Pakistan had initially insisted that he couldn't leave because he was the subject of a criminal investigation but Washington argued that Hall's diplomatic immunity shielded him from legal action in Pakistan.
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China's agents are reported to have quizzed Mr Kovrig about his years at Canada's embassy there, when his work—analysing Chinese politics by cultivating official and scholarly contacts—enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
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NBC reported that Broidy's lawyers have argued Benomar only asserted diplomatic immunity after Broidy filed his lawsuit, and further claimed that such immunity would not extend to the alleged hacking scheme.
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When the State Department notified the Holy See of the possible violation last year, the Vatican "refused" to waive his diplomatic immunity and allow him to be prosecuted in the U.S.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand gave diplomatic immunity to three Australians who helped a boys' soccer team escape from a flooded cave, in case "something went wrong", its foreign minister said on Monday.
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"According to the U.S. State Department, the North Korean citizens were not accredited members of North Korea's mission to the U.N. and had no entitlement to diplomatic immunity," the statement said.
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Neither Sporyshev and Podobnyy were arrested, as they enjoyed diplomatic immunity in their respective roles as a Russian trade representative and an attaché to the country's mission to the United Nations.
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As a result, Colonel Hall has been barred from leaving Pakistan, and officials have demanded that the United States waive his diplomatic immunity so that he can face a criminal trial.
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The case at the International Court of Justice is seen as a test for the limits of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Immunity, which shields government officials from prosecution abroad.
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In a statement rejecting the UK&aposs extradition request, the US state department said Sacoolas had enjoyed diplomatic immunity during her stay in the UK, meaning she should not face charges.
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Neither Sporyshev nor Podobnyy was arrested, as they enjoyed diplomatic immunity in their respective roles as a Russian trade representative and an attaché to the country's mission to the United Nations.
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Islam has limited diplomatic immunity and was ordered to surrender his passport when he appeared in court in New York, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown in a statement on Monday.
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At issue, to some degree, was a question of who among Erdoǧan's detail might enjoy diplomatic immunity, and what it would mean if they were forced to give up that protection.
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Malaysian police have said they may issue an arrest warrant for the diplomat if he does not cooperate, but it is unclear if they can do so given he has diplomatic immunity.
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On September 5, the UK formally requested the US waive diplomatic immunity for the diplomat's wife, but the US embassy in London turned down the request, according to the New York Times.
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While there are some pretty serious things you can get away with under diplomatic immunity, New York traffic violations aren't covered—meaning the country is required to pony up for the fines.
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The auction was to be held last year but was delayed after Becker claimed diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings by taking up a role with Central African Republic as a sports envoy.
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Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did however approve Equatorial Guinea's request to have a building it says is part of its diplomatic mission in Paris be given diplomatic immunity.
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A State Department spokesman said in September that the United States had requested that the man's diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for possible prosecution there but the Vatican refused.
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The last remaining class-action lawsuit against the United Nations over the cholera epidemic in Haiti was thrown out Thursday by a federal judge, who upheld the organization's assertion of diplomatic immunity.
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"If the United States were to grant the UK&aposs extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent," it said.
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US senators on both sides of the aisle argued that diplomatic immunity for the Turkish officials involved in the day's violence was basically compromised the moment the men ran into the mix.
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"If [the guards] were accredited members of the diplomatic mission, then they have diplomatic immunity and that would be upheld," said Stanford University law professor Allen Weiner, a former State Department legal advisor.
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Yet Boris Becker, a German former tennis star who could once do just that, told a London court on June 14th that he should be excused from proceedings because he has diplomatic immunity.
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The incident had potential to cause a rift in already tense Israel-Jordan relations, because Jordan wanted to question the Israeli guard, but Israel said he had diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention.
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It's not like in the movies Podobnyy and Sporyshev were suspects in the ring associated with Buryakov but left the United States with diplomatic immunity because they were working for the Russian government.
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Mohammed Shaheldul Islam has limited diplomatic immunity and was ordered to surrender his passport when he appeared before Queens Supreme Court Justice Daniel Lewis, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown in a statement.
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But if he thinks he's right, he'd first have to grant the nation's undocumented population something akin to diplomatic immunity—a move that he and his supporters may not be able to stomach.
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On Friday, Islamabad's High Court, noting that Colonel Hall did not have full diplomatic immunity, left it up to the government to decide whether to add his name to a travel ban list.
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Although Ms. Sacoolas cooperated with the local police immediately after the crash, the next day she informed them of her diplomatic immunity, Chief Constable Nick Adderley of Northamptonshire Police told reporters on Tuesday.
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A State Department spokesman said then that the United States had requested that the man's diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for a possible prosecution there, but the Vatican had refused.
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The other two suspects allowed to leave Malaysia were Kim Uk Il, an employee of North Korea's state-run airline, and Hyon Kwang Song, who as the embassy's second secretary has diplomatic immunity.
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But the kind of diplomatic immunity the investigators received meant that it was extremely unlikely that a federal judge would have been allowed to sign off on such a warrant, the investigators said.
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Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document seen by Reuters.
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The principle of diplomatic immunity generally restricts criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits against ambassadors and their staff, and it has been used to nullify charges ranging from abuse of domestic workers to parking violations.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that Chinese officials are not respecting the diplomatic immunity of one of the Canadians detained in China last month as he ramped up efforts to get them released.
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The Toronto rapper dropped two new tracks, "God's Plan" and "Diplomatic Immunity," on Friday night ahead of the release of his Scary Hours EP. On the latter, he references his former flame Jennifer Lopez.
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It's not like in the movies Podobnyy and Sporyshev were suspects in the ring associated with Buryakov, but left the United States and had diplomatic immunity because they were working for the Russian government.
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Unsworth's comments came as it was reported that two Australians who assisted in the international effort to help the Thai football team were given diplomatic immunity in case anything went wrong during the rescue.
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The investigation was earlier discontinued in 2017 but reopened at the request of the lawyer for the alleged victim following Assange's arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after the country withdrew diplomatic immunity.
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The Turkish defense minister, Hulusi Akar, said last week that the Saudi hit team might have carried Mr. Khashoggi's dismembered body in suitcases back to Saudi Arabia, using diplomatic immunity to avoid baggage searches.
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Ecuador recently granted citizenship to Mr. Assange, 46, a native of Australia, but Britain rejected an Ecuadorean request to give him diplomatic immunity so that he could leave the embassy without fear of arrest.
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The State Department called the U.K. government's request "highly inappropriate" due to the diplomatic immunity claimed by Anne Sacoolas, who fled the U.K. after the crash last August, according to The New York Times.
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DA party leader Mmusi Maimane asked the president why Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe had been granted diplomatic immunity by South Africa's government after being accused of assault by a twenty-year-old model.
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At the worst, a large part of the Crown Prince's inner security circle premeditated and executed a gruesome and unprecedented dismembering of a mildly outspoken critic, on foreign soil, using diplomatic immunity as cover.
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And Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, unsuccessfully sought to invoke diplomatic immunity to avoid a lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid in Manhattan in 2011.
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In 2011, American officials argued that Raymond A. Davis, a C.I.A. contractor who killed two Pakistanis on a crowded street in Lahore, was entitled to diplomatic immunity, a claim rejected by the Pakistani government.
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Equatorial Guinea had argued at the ICJ, also known as the World Court, that a 2012 raid on Theodorin Obiang's residence was improper because he enjoyed diplomatic immunity and the residence was diplomatic property.
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According to a Friday report from Reuters, it even went so far as to try and name him to a diplomatic position in Russia but backed down after Britain refused to grant Assange diplomatic immunity.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Protesters gathered near the Israeli Embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman on Friday, angry that an Israeli embassy guard who shot dead a Jordanian had returned to Israel and been granted diplomatic immunity.
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There were initially some questions as to whether Jonathan Sacoolas qualified for diplomatic immunity himself, but UK officials told the Guardian that the RAF Croughton base was treated as an "annex" of the US embassy.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa said on Friday it was quitting the International Criminal Court (ICC) because membership conflicted with diplomatic immunity laws, dealing a new blow to the struggling court and angering the political opposition.
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The account holder contended there was insufficient suspicion to make a case, that Switzerland lacks jurisdiction, that the statute of limitations had expired and that he had diplomatic immunity from criminal prosecution, court documents show.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic cannot claim diplomatic immunity to avoid U.S. charges that he participated in a vast bribery scheme, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.
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And because the highest levels of diplomatic immunity include immunity from crimes as severe as rape and murder, should that employer engage in abuse, there is almost no means to hold him, or her, accountable.
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The UK had repeatedly asked the US Embassy in London to waive Anne Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity, but the US refused, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the Dunn family on Saturday, according to the BBC.
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document seen by Reuters.
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The American authorities had sought to strip his diplomatic immunity and charge him with possession of child pornography, and his recall was denounced by critics as the Vatican's attempt to shield one of its own.
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Alfred Keating, 58, was charged in March after New Zealand police officers traveled to the United States to conduct an investigation, pre-empting an American criminal case from which Mr. Keating could claim diplomatic immunity.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain urged the United States on Monday to reconsider its decision to let a U.S. diplomat's wife who was involved in a fatal car crash to use her diplomatic immunity to leave Britain.
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" She added that the United States government had made clear it would not extradite her client because of diplomatic immunity, saying, "We remain willing to work with the U.K. authorities to identify a path forward.
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Nauert declined to answer questions on how the administration plans on trying to return them to the United States, but did tell reporters that those bodyguards who left the country no longer enjoy diplomatic immunity.
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New Zealand officers had earlier traveled to Washington to conduct a forensic examination at the embassy, pre-empting an investigation by the American authorities — in which Mr. Keating would have been protected by diplomatic immunity.
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To date, Ashe - a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda - has only been charged with tax fraud in connection with the bribes, in light of questions about whether diplomatic immunity may preclude any bribery charges.
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Citing the guard's diplomatic immunity, Israel repatriated him and other embassy staff after the incident, which stirred up anger in Jordan, where the 1994 peace deal between the countries is unpopular and pro-Palestinian sentiment widespread.
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He said an arrest warrant would not be issued for the embassy official, as he has diplomatic immunity, but that "the process of the law will take place" if the airline official does not come forward.
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In televised comments Santos Silva said: "if the investigation requires asking Iraq to lift diplomatic immunity of the two sons of the ambassador, the foreign ministry will make this request and will expect cooperation" from Iraq.
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Police had placed border posts on "red alert" to prevent her from leaving but South Africa's international relations minister said she had granted diplomatic immunity to the wife of Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe.
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A spokesman for a Tunisian anti-terrorism judiciary unit told TAP the detained official had traveled in a private capacity on his Tunisian passport, meaning he was not entitled to diplomatic immunity and could be arrested.
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It was an extraordinary development in the prolonged diplomatic standoff, and came only hours after Britain said it had rejected a request by Ecuador to grant Mr. Assange diplomatic immunity so he could leave the embassy.
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Yet Mr. Orban has also allowed an obscure Russian financial institution, the International Investment Bank, to open in Budapest with sweeping diplomatic immunity — a move that Western security officials say enables Russian spying and money laundering.
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In 2009 she was accused by a freelance photographer of repeatedly hitting him in the face when he tried to take photographs of her while she was shopping in Hong Kong; she was granted diplomatic immunity.
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The case of Harry Dunn, 19, who died in August after his motorcycle collided with a car driven by Anne Sacoolas, has caused difficulties for Raab since Sacoolas left Britain claiming diplomatic immunity, outraging many Britons.
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Diplomatic immunity exempts the diplomat — and, generally, his or her family — from US jurisdiction, the argument goes, so children born in the US to foreign diplomats are citizens of their parents' home countries, not US citizens.
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A French citizen employed in his country's consulate in Jerusalem will appear in an Israeli court Monday charged with smuggling more than 70 weapons to Palestinians under the cover of diplomatic immunity, according to security officials.
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In 2014 St Lucia appointed a Saudi billionaire without previous shipping experience as its IMO representative; a court in London judged in 2016 that the appointment was obtained in order to gain diplomatic immunity against divorce proceedings.
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She originally cooperated in the case, British police said, but later left the country, protected by diplomatic immunity, despite assuring them she would remain in the UK. In a statement, police say their investigation is still underway.
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But if a country believes that foreign agents have committed a crime, as happened with Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the only way to punish embassy employees is to expel them, since they have full diplomatic immunity.
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New Zealand has expelled an attache at the U.S. Embassy after Washington declined to waive his right to diplomatic immunity after an "incident" which gave him a broken nose and a black eye, media and authorities said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police officers will travel to the United States to interview the wife of a U.S. diplomat who was given diplomatic immunity after her alleged involvement in a car crash which killed a British teenager.
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However, her husband — named by UK and US media as Jonathan Sacoolas — does not appear in the UK's official list of diplomats, inviting speculation that the family didn't have the right to claim diplomatic immunity to leave.
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United States government lawyers represented the United Nations in the federal court case affirming its legal immunity, and judges have cited the Obama administration's interpretation of the diplomatic immunity convention as a major influence on their decisions.
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Their 2003 release "Diplomatic Immunity" and its sequel were the only two albums produced before the group dissolved because of internal strife, but fans can expect to hear hits from the members' prolific solo careers as well.
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LONDON — The diplomatic immunity of Anne Sacoolas, the American woman who is a suspect in a road crash that killed Harry Dunn, a British teenager, is "no longer relevant" in the case, Britain's foreign secretary has said.
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The wife of a U.S. diplomat is accused of using diplomatic immunity to flee a police investigation in the U.K. after she allegedly struck and killed a motorcyclist while driving on the wrong side of the road.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea argued on Monday that a luxury mansion in central Paris used by the son of the country's president was protected by diplomatic immunity when it was raided by French authorities in 2012.
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Obama, however, has vowed to reject the measure over concerns that it will upend the long-standing legal tradition of diplomatic immunity afforded to sovereign states, thereby subjecting U.S. citizens, companies and diplomats to similar suits abroad.
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The Paraguay-based CONMEBOL, many of whose officials were indicted in the U.S.-led investigation into corruption at world football's governing body FIFA last year, had no books prior to 2013 and enjoyed diplomatic immunity, Alejandro Dominguez said.
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"With the pieces of evidence already collected and the investigation carried out so far, it is considered essential that the two suspects with diplomatic immunity be interrogated as formal suspects in order to clarify the facts," it said.
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In August, Grace Mugabe was accused of assaulting a model, Gabriella Engels, with an electric cord in South Africa, but was allowed to return home to Zimbabwe after the South African government approved her request for diplomatic immunity.
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Under Section 29, the United Nations is required to make provisions for "appropriate modes of settlement" of private law disputes to which the world body is a party or disputes involving a U.N. official who enjoys diplomatic immunity.
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It was the first time Tunisia had confirmed the arrest of the official, Tunisian national Moncef Kartas, who a U.N. spokesman said on Friday had been detained earlier in the week at Tunis airport despite having diplomatic immunity.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The Vatican has lifted the diplomatic immunity of its envoy in France, the French foreign ministry said on Monday, opening the way for Archbishop Luigi Ventura to be questioned by prosecutors over accusations of sexual molestation.
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"If the United States were to grant the U.K.'s extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent," the State Department said on Thursday, Reuters reports.
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Test of diplomatic immunity: Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the wife of an American diplomat to return to Britain after she was involved in a deadly crash, saying he would ask President Trump to intervene if necessary.
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Andrew&aposs status as a member of the British royal family complicates mattersWhile the Queen is the only member of the royal family who has diplomatic immunity (called "sovereign immunity"), her son&aposs royal pedigree certainly complicates matters.
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And the Hungarian Parliament has effectively granted the bank diplomatic immunity from any scrutiny by police or financial regulators — leaving Western security officials concerned that Russian spies could use it as a base to conduct European intelligence operations.
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A day earlier, an Islamabad court had ruled his diplomatic immunity may not apply in the April 7 traffic accident in which the U.S. attache's vehicle hit a motorcycle, killing the 22-year-old driver, both papers reported.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's police ministry said on Wednesday that Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe was still in South Africa and had requested diplomatic immunity against accusations she assaulted a 20-year-old model in an upscale Johannesburg hotel.
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Ms. Sacoolas cooperated with the local police immediately after the crash, but the next day she informed them of her diplomatic immunity, effectively halting communication with her, Chief Constable Nick Adderley of the Northamptonshire Police told reporters last week.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's attorney general said that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has diplomatic immunity, rejecting a bid by activist lawyers to have her face charges for crimes against humanity over the country's treatment of minority Rohingya Muslims.
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Porter said he would not allow the prosecution of Suu Kyi, who arrived in Sydney on Saturday for regional talks, citing diplomatic immunity provisions, which protect foreign heads of state from being arrested, detained or served with court proceedings.
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Dunn's parents refused to see Sacoolas, saying that they would not meet her unless it was in the UK.The UK has since cancelled Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity, which means that if she returned to the UK she could face prosecution.
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The United Nations acknowledged for the first time this week that it bore some responsibility for the Haiti disaster, after having repeatedly presented a public face of ignoring the incriminating evidence and invoking its diplomatic immunity from legal action.
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Shortly after the crash Sacoolas and her family claimed diplomatic immunity and left for the US — reportedly on a private aircraft at the behest of American officials — despite telling police she would stay in the UK to face questioning.
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Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN)A South African High Court has overturned a government decision to grant diplomatic immunity to former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe over an alleged case of assault, paving the way for prosecution and possible extradition.
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Why it matters: Dunn's death has sparked "widespread controversy in Britain and thrust the concept of diplomatic immunity into the spotlight, triggering a debate about who it should protect and what exactly it should cover," the Washington Post writes.
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Benomar, a British citizen born in Morocco and a former U.N. special envoy for Yemen, had denied involvement and sought to get the lawsuit thrown out by asserting diplomatic immunity, a status confirmed by the Trump administration last month.
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Callamard also said Saudi operatives had exploited diplomatic immunity to carry out the murder, and said it was "unconscionable" that Saudi authorities had still not revealed the whereabouts of Khashoggi's remains — even after admitting he was killed at the consulate.
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South African authorities released a statement Wednesday saying that Mugabe did not show up for the previously agreed upon meeting at the police station, and that her attorneys and government representatives "wished to invoke diplomatic immunity cover" over the case.
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This included a series of unsuccessful endeavors to give him an exit route, including granting him citizenship and designating him as an Ecuadorian diplomat to Moscow, which it had to rescind after the UK refused to give him diplomatic immunity.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal on Thursday asked Iraq to waive the diplomatic immunity of the twin sons of its ambassador after prosecutors sought their interrogation as formal suspects in the beating of a local youth who ended up in intensive care.
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Until 1994, the year Hoda was born, Ahmed Ali had been among Yemen's envoys to the U.N.; the standard trade-off that foreign workers like him made in exchange for diplomatic immunity was that their children weren't eligible for birthright citizenship.
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LONDON — President Trump offered little succor to the authorities in Britain on Wednesday in a growing dispute over an American woman who fled the country using diplomatic immunity after being involved in a road crash that left a teenage motorcyclist dead.
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Driving the news: Sacoolas returned to the U.S. after invoking diplomatic immunity amid police reports that her vehicle struck 19-year-old Dunn's motorcycle when she was driving on the wrong side of the road in the U.K on Aug. 27.
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In 2009, she was granted diplomatic immunity by Hong Kong's Department of Justice after being accused of attacking a British photographer who took pictures of her shopping for designer clothes while her home country was mired in financial chaos and starvation.
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Getting serious about paralyzing North Korea's economy also means cutting off its illegal revenues — from terrorist states and organizations in the Middle East, from cybercrime and from the rackets that its embassies run all over the world with diplomatic immunity.
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Police announced in early October that although Sacoolas initially agreed to cooperate with their investigation, she later claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the UK. Dunn's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, have been vocal about seeking justice for their son's death.
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October 21, 2016 - South Africa announces it is withdrawing from the ICC, saying parts of the Rome statute conflict with the country's own laws which give heads-of-state, particularly ones they're trying to reach peace and stability with, diplomatic immunity.
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"No matter how you look at it, Michael Kovrig does not have diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention," she said, adding that he is not currently a diplomat and was in the country on a regular passport and a tourist visa.
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Last month, the Foreign Office in London refused to grant Mr. Assange diplomatic immunity, which would have given him certain protections and might have allowed him to leave the embassy without facing arrest, including over a United States extradition request.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Sudanese diplomat was arrested in New York City and charged with sexually rubbing up against a woman in a subway car but the charges were dropped and he was released because he had diplomatic immunity, police said on Tuesday.
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Under this "Status of Forces" agreement with the Iraqi government, any US troops remaining in the country and not given diplomatic immunity by their association with the US embassy in Baghdad after December 31 of 2011 would have been subject to Iraqi law.
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The Trump administration was "not only hellbent on breaking international laws, rules and conventions on diplomatic immunity, but they have no care or concern for the welfare of Harry's family or any real intent on finding a solution," added Radd Seiger, the spokesperson.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday it was reviewing the rules which govern diplomatic immunity arrangements for U.S. personnel at an air force base after a man was killed when his motorbike collided with a car driven by a U.S. diplomat's wife.
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Obiang appealed for charges against him to be dropped last year on grounds of diplomatic immunity, but the Cour de Cassation court at the time ruled the charges related "exclusively to his private life in France" and not to his official functions.
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"France shall, pending a final decision in the case, take all measures at its disposal to ensure that the premises presented as housing the diplomatic mission of Equatorial Guinea" be granted diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention, the ICJ said in its ruling.
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The bloody encounter between the president's wife, Grace Mugabe, 52, who had sought diplomatic immunity afterward, and the model, Gabriella Engels, 20, who had filed assault charges, sparked outrage in South Africa and Zimbabwe and threatened to escalate into a diplomatic incident.
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Mugabe diplomatic immunity "continues a worrying trend by the South African government to prioritize protecting regional allies from prosecution over enforcing international and domestic criminal law," said Hannah Woolaver, a senior lecturer in public international law at the University of Cape Town.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to reconsider a decision to let a U.S. diplomat's wife use diplomatic immunity after she was involved in a fatal car crash in England and then left the country.
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Jerusalem (CNN)A worker at the French Consulate in Jerusalem has been arrested for smuggling weapons from Gaza into East Jerusalem and the West Bank using his diplomatic immunity, the Israel Security Agency (ISA) announced Monday after a joint investigation with Israeli police.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday he was disappointed by a U.S. decision to let a diplomat's wife who was involved in a fatal car crash use diplomatic immunity to leave Britain.
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The White House is vowing to veto the bill, warning that it would erode decades-old diplomatic immunity protections — solidified by a 1976 law exempting foreign governments from suits in U.S. courts — thereby subjecting the United States to similar suits around the globe.
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Along with other paperwork, he provided the co-op board with a letter from the United Nations explaining that he is a political affairs officer there, not a diplomat, an occupation viewed by some co-ops as undesirable, in part because of diplomatic immunity.
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The Trump administration will be sued by a British family over the death of their son in an automobile accident thought to have been caused by the wife of an American diplomat who claimed diplomatic immunity and fled to the U.S. following the crash.
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The former diplomat had denied the charges but after Swiss authorities asked the Syrian government to lift his diplomatic immunity, he was called back urgently to Damascus in late 1997, whereupon he lost his immunity in Switzerland, Vincent Derouand of the Geneva prosecutor's office said.
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I think he'll deter a few radical Islamists by tightening up embassy staff and diplomatic immunity scams but not stop more than about fifty Muslims entering the US, but I think he'll tighten up immigration of the unskilled and the trafficked from Central America.
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One of the lawyers representing the Muthanas and who was in the courtroom, Christina A. Jump, said the judge ruled that expedited consideration was now appropriate but then ruled that he was bound by the State Department's representation of when Mr. Muthana's diplomatic immunity ended.
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She told police she would stay in the country to cooperate in the investigation, but she and her family have since claimed diplomatic immunity to return to the US.Diplomats and their families are legally entitled to claim immunity from being tried in their host country.
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LONDON — British police officers investigating a crash that killed a teenage motorcyclist in Britain in August will travel to the United States to interview the American suspect who claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the country shortly after the accident, the police said on Tuesday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, accused of attacking and injuring a young model she had found with her sons in a hotel room in South Africa, is seeking diplomatic immunity to fend off an assault charge, South African officials said on Wednesday.
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Sacoolas has worked as a CIA agent, according to British media, and claimed diplomatic immunity to flee to the U.S. She has refused to return to face a charge of causing death by dangerous driving, sparking a tense diplomatic standoff between London and Washington.
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The family's cause has picked up the support of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Monday, who said the U.K. government has already raised the matter of waiving Sacoolas' diplomatic immunity — something the State Department said is "rarely" done — with US ambassador Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson.
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It also swept up international officials who had been granted a status akin to diplomatic immunity as well as unprecedented access to investigate a case that has come to define the nation's broken rule of law — and the legacy of its president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted a U.S. diplomat's wife who was involved in a fatal car crash to return to Britain and that it was wrong for her to have used diplomatic immunity to leave the country.
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Harry Dunn A US diplomat's wife who was being investigated for her involvement in a deadly road accident that killed a 19-year-old in England has claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the UK after first telling authorities that she would not leave the country.
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The state of play: Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, invoked diplomatic immunity under international law and returned to the U.S. after police reports claimed that her vehicle struck 19-year-old Dunn's motorcycle when she drove on the wrong side of the road.
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On Monday, in response to Trudeau accusing China of "not respecting the principles of diplomatic immunity" in Kovrig's case, China's foreign minister Hua Chunying suggested that "the relevant Canadian person" should "earnestly study" the Vienna Convention to avoid becoming a "laughing stock," Reuters reported.
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Earlier this year, the government granted him citizenship in hopes that he would receive diplomatic immunity and could exit the building without getting arrested by British authorities for the two sexual assault-related charges he faced in Sweden (which have since been dropped due to a technicality).
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Last week, the Islamabad High Court ruled that the colonel did not enjoy full diplomatic immunity and gave the government two weeks to decide whether he should be placed on the Exit Control List, an official roster of names that bars people from leaving the country.
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At the time of the accident, which occurred in Brackley, a town about 60 miles northwest of London, Ms. Sacoolas's husband was working for the United States government at a British military base, and American officials assert that she had diplomatic immunity, shielding her from prosecution.
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The woman, Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat, left for the United States under diplomatic immunity three weeks after the crash, enraging the family of the teenager, Harry Dunn, 19, and starting a diplomatic tug of war as British officials urged her to return.
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Weeks before her birth, Muthana's father had stepped down from a post at his country's mission to the United Nations in New York, relinquishing his diplomatic immunity but maintaining a diplomatic visa, which enabled him to stay in the country with this family legally, according to Swift.
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The first part of Thursday's ICC ruling was expected as the war crimes court has consistently rejected arguments put forward by the South African government, namely that it could not arrest Bashir because visiting heads of state at the African Union Summit held in the country enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
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Another former foreign minister, José Ayala-Lasso, who also has served as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said that diplomatic immunity would have been an elegant solution to the problem because it would have exempted Mr. Assange from facing punishment in Britain for bail jumping.
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The altercation, which played out in broad daylight and ricocheted across social media on Tuesday, puts the United States in an uncomfortable position as it must navigate investigating and potentially charging the security personnel and other Erdogan supporters involved in the attack, who could potentially claim diplomatic immunity.
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Ms. Sacoolas left Britain shortly after the crash under a claim of diplomatic immunity, and the United States rejected an official British request to extradite her on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving, despite emotional appeals from Mr. Dunn's parents, who even met with President Trump.
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Her actions have also raised questions about the use of diplomatic immunity in a case such as this, and have turned one teenager's tragic death into an awkward back-and-forth between the US and the UK that doesn't look as though it's going to be resolved any time soon.
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"At this point, (Archbishop Ventura) benefits from diplomatic immunity, but the Holy See is clearly aware of the serious accusations that have been brought against the apostolic nuncio and I don't doubt for a second that the Holy See will do the right thing," Loiseau told CNews at the time.
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Teodorin Obiang, the son of President Teodoro Obiang, had appealed for charges against him to be dropped last year on grounds of diplomatic immunity, but the Cour de Cassation court at the time ruled the charges related "exclusively to his private life in France" and not to his official functions.
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Earlier this month, the State Department rejected and described as "highly inappropriate" a request from the United Kingdom seeking the extradition of an American diplomat's wife; she had killed a British teen-ager when driving on the wrong side of the road and fled the U.K. while claiming diplomatic immunity.
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It wasn't enough a year later, when Archbishop Józef Wesołowski, the Vatican's ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was accused of routinely paying young boys for sex, and the Vatican, instead of informing the country's authorities, recalled him back to safety behind its walls, where he had diplomatic immunity from secular persecution.
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The proposal arose at Monday's summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and any decision by Washington to assist with an adversary's prosecution of former government employees overseas would be a stunning shift in U.S. policy, especially as it could violate the international legal principle of diplomatic immunity.
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When Mr. Johnson raised the case in a phone call on Wednesday, according to a statement from the prime minister's office, Mr. Trump expressed his condolences to Mr. Dunn's family and "agreed to work together to find a way forward," but the statement made no mention of withdrawing diplomatic immunity or any other specific remedy.
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"I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose, and I hope that Anne Sacoolas will come back and will engage properly with the processes of laws that carried out in this country," Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC last week.
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Even when the United Nations acknowledged a role in the Haiti cholera crisis in 2016, after years of denial and assertions of diplomatic immunity from lawsuits, rights advocates said its apology was carefully worded to avoid direct responsibility, and the compensation plan was structured as a voluntary act of good will, not as a requirement.
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"If we break diplomatic ties, then all the embassy staff have to leave Malaysia, but the staff with diplomatic immunity at the time of the offense is still safe and must be allowed to leave," said Sivananthan Nithyanantham, a Malaysian lawyer who has served as counsel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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A veteran official with the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, Joseph Stowell, testified Wednesday that diplomatic immunity applied not only to an embassy compound, but also to the cars and residences of registered diplomats — US law enforcement could not stop a car or search a house, even if the people inside were not diplomats, he said.
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If the guards who beat the protestors do not have diplomatic immunity, they must be prosecuted, and the Trump administration should take the strongest possible measures against the Turkish mission in DC. I understand that Turkey is an important ally, but what use are our alliances if they do not serve the cause of preserving our freedom?
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Among those who have been investigated under the law are a factory worker accused of insulting the king's dog; a scholar accused of insulting a king who died centuries ago; and Ambassador Glyn T. Davies of the United States, who, despite his diplomatic immunity, was investigated after he criticized long prison sentences handed out under the law.
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Ms. Sacoolas, the 42-year-old wife of a diplomat, fled Britain using diplomatic immunity after the police in Northamptonshire, England, suspected her of being the driver of a car that they say had been traveling on the wrong side of the road when it collided with a motorcycle ridden by Mr. Dunn, 19, in August.
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"We're talking about the most severe incident in which cynical use has been made of diplomatic immunity and the rights that were given to foreign representatives in Israel in order to smuggle weapons that could be used in terror attacks against citizens and security force members," said an ISA official in a statement about the investigation.
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Read more: The US diplomat's wife who fled the country while a suspect in a fatal UK car crash may not have had full diplomatic immunity, legal expert saysSacoolas had been driving her Volvo XC90 luxury SUV on the wrong side the road when she collided with Dunn, who had been riding his motorcycle, Sky News and The Daily Beast reported.
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The case, which the FBI called "one of our most important counter-espionage cases of the decade," resulted in the arrests of two KGB officers; one Russian with diplomatic immunity was ultimately expelled from the U.S. Solo A long-running case that began in 1958 and ran until 1977, "Operation Solo" was the FBI's plan to infiltrate the Communist Party, according to the agency's archives .
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A bipartisan group of senators, led by Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (D-Mo.), wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking that he call on the Turkish government to waive diplomatic immunity for all personnel involved.
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Months before her birth, Muthana's father stepped down from a post at his country's mission to the United Nations in New York, relinquishing his diplomatic immunity but maintaining a diplomatic visa, which enabled him to stay in the country with this family legally, according to Charles Swift, the director of the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America and the lawyer for Muthana's father.
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Hungary to arm new 'border hunters' after six-month crash course EPA chief unconvinced on CO2 link to global warming "The disavowal policy by the Obama administration in my case has been very unfortunate, because it has wider implications for all those of us who are assigned to countries as State Department officers, officially," she said, explaining that her cover should have guaranteed her diplomatic immunity.
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The bill prohibits: (22016) the authorization of funds for the U.S. assessed or voluntary contribution to the U.N., (220) the authorization of funds for any U.S. contribution to any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation, (20163) the expenditure of funds to support the participation of U.S. Armed Forces as part of any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation, (22016) U.S. Armed Forces from serving under U.N. command, and (226) diplomatic immunity for U.N. officers or employees.
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Related: A Radical Imam, His Alleged CIA Kidnapper, and Their 10-Year Hunt for Justice "I wrote [sic] that letter to Secretary Clinton because as secretary of state, she had the authority to be able to invoke diplomatic immunity on my behalf.... Secretary Clinton is tenacious, a fighter.... I never heard back from [Clinton] at all," De Sousa told VICE News in Lisbon, Portugal last week — days after a high court there rejected her appeal to block the extradition.
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