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Bacon King
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« on: August 29, 2012, 02:36:27 AM »

Couldn't Assange just be taken from the embassy to a vehicle, carried inside a largeish crate, if it is properly marked as a diplomatic bag? Even if the British knew he was inside, they'd still be prohibited from opening it, no?
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Bacon King
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2012, 09:54:54 AM »

New idea: Vienna Convention specifies that diplomatic couriers are immune from all arrests and detainments, that they can be appointed on an ad hoc basis, and doesn't give any nationality requirements.

Could Assange be able to just walk from the Embassy to the airport, and fly to Ecuador with no problems, if he was properly accredited as an ad-hoc diplomatic courier and was given some random papers to carry with him in a satchel marked as a diplomatic bag?

Also, on another note, would Ecuador even want to smuggle him out like this? I've considered the fact that they might just be using Assange as a bargaining chip, to be released into British custody whenever they agree to consessions of some sort (though I have no idea what those would be).
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