> I don't know of any exact parallels, but there have certainly been
> cases where embassy inviolability has been breached even without a
> prior revocation of its status
That was the sort of thing I was wondering about -- cases where the host country has just sent in the cops and grabbed somebody.
> and countries have unilaterally shut
> down foreign embassies on their territory and expelled their staff.
Expelled, sure, but the staff were allowed to leave unmolested, right? But of course the status of an asylum seeker is not quite the same.
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