Foreign Embassies are not, contrary to popular belief, small parts of foreign soil in the land where they are situated, but are places where the law of the host nation does not run and where the police of the host nation cannot enter. This is a rule of international law and one which every nation exploits. For example the United States of America refuses to pay its diplomats’ congestion charges, claiming that the London Congestion Charge is a Tax. Throughout the world, for good or evil, embassies have shielded persons of interest to the police, for better or worse, whether they be political opponents of a regime or whether they be plain murderers. (more…)
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