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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:24 PM Mar 2013

India orders Italy ambassador Mancini not to leave [View all]

Source: BBC News

India's Supreme Court has ordered the Italian ambassador not to leave the country after Rome's refusal to return two marines charged with the murder of two fishermen in Kerala last year.

The court had allowed the marines to go home to vote in last month's elections.

Ambassador Daniele Mancini had personally assured the court the marines would return by 22 March.

On Wednesday, PM Manmohan Singh warned that "there will be consequences" unless Italy returned the marines.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21781993

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India orders Italy ambassador Mancini not to leave [View all] dipsydoodle Mar 2013 OP

messing with an accreditted ambassador's diplomatic immunity melm00se Mar 2013 #1

Diplomats may not be detained jsr Mar 2013 #2

She is not jailed or in custody. cosmicone Mar 2013 #3

Article 29 of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations says, in part, melm00se Mar 2013 #5

Here is the legal justification cosmicone Mar 2013 #9

The article is nonsense ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #15

US law does not conform to international law in many instances. OrwellwasRight Mar 2013 #16

It is plain and simple. cosmicone Mar 2013 #18

No it is not standard procedure... ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #7

Are you on the side of the murderer marines? n/t cosmicone Mar 2013 #8

Not at all. Now answer the question...why do you think its SOP ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #10

See post No. 9 n/t cosmicone Mar 2013 #11

Not sure if that's SOP, but I do approve of their actions Alamuti Lotus Mar 2013 #12

I'm with you on that assessment. n/t cosmicone Mar 2013 #13

I have NO idea whatsoever Blue_Tires Mar 2013 #19

Diplomats may not get involved in individual criminal cases in a host country. grantcart Mar 2013 #17

Who does Italy think it is, the United States? marble falls Mar 2013 #4

Both sides covering themselves in shame here. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #6

Not an order they have any legal right to make. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2013 #14

India-Italy marines row: 'No legal immunity' for envoy Daniele Mancini dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #20