By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chair, Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights.

A Newsweek op-ed article authored by Paul Webster Hare, “Assange And Wikileaks Make a Mockery of the Diplomacy They Enjoy” – also published in other media, e.g. UPI Top News – [1] asks the UK authorities to consider the suspension of the diplomatic inviolability of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in order to stop the WikiLeaks publication of Hillary Clinton emails. Webster Hare, a lecturer at Boston University, concludes after his plea:

It appears quite odd that this author, at the same time that he profusely cites in his text the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, ignores Article 22, § 1, referring the very main issue in that agreement signed by UK and other 60 countries: