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It's particularly bad because it's a pattern that people need to know about. Being trapped politically somewhere like that happened to both Snowden and Assange.
by rriepe 5y ago
It's particularly bad because it's a pattern that people need to know about. Being trapped politically somewhere like that happened to both Snowden and Assange.
- valdiorn 5y agoBobby Fischer as well. He was stuck in Japan for months until receiving an emergency passport from the Icelandic government. That fact that this is legal is... sketchy. Same with Shamima Begum, for that matter.
- tyre 5y agoThe fact that what is legal? That a company can revoke a passport issued by itself? Seems pretty reasonable. Maybe people could disagree on specific examples, but the principle seems fine. US passports say in them that they can be revoked for a variety of reasons.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoIt has the problem that it violates the UN charter for human rights which says that nations may not make people nationless.
- BoysenberryPi 5y agoThey are not nationless. Revoking someone's passport is not revoking someone's citizenship. Snowden was and is still a US citizen.
- astrea 5y agoThe UN is a toothless exercise in futility, much like its predecessor.
- throwaway_kufu 5y agoTell that to Charles Taylor or Slobodan Milošević. As far as it’s predecessor my guess if you are referencing the League of Nations rather than the international military tribunals that conducted the Nuremberg Trials that hung 10 Nazi’s with ropes to short to break their necks and choked them to death.
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- de6u99er 5y agoAssnange and Snowden are not really comparable. Assange is an Australian citizen, and the US want d to lock bim up for publishing leaked information, while Snowden id an US citizen and leaked the info by himself.
- rriepe 5y agoIf you can't compare, why not try contrasting? The differences in their cases should tell you exactly what the US government cares about. It's not citizenship and it's not journalism.