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Yeah. If you are being threatened with legal process in a foreign country, step #1 is always "contact your embassy". This is actually one of the main reasons t
by DannyBee 8y ago
Yeah.
If you are being threatened with legal process in a foreign country, step #1 is always "contact your embassy". This is actually one of the main reasons they exist.
If they let you, your embassy should be helping (at the very least, understand your rights/options, etc. They generally will not provide legal advice but can give you an overview)
If they don't let you, then either:
1. What is happening is very very illegal (IE they are not supposed to be detaining you)
or
2. You are about to be accused of something so serious they think it's worth creating an incident over.
or
3. You are in a banana republic :)
Outside of #3, it's valuable to understand where you stand anyway.
- rhizome 8y agoIf you are being threatened with legal process in a foreign country, step #1 is always "contact your embassy". I've always known this to be good advice in a criminal context, but not political ones like this unless to relay that the USG in general should intervene. I have not heard that the guy was detained. I really don't think an embassy has the juice to go up against UK Parliament, the current US Ambassador to the UK is a old-money Republican fundraiser with a history degree, whose most recent accomplishment is owning the New York Jets NFL team. Also, do we know that he didn't contact the embassy?