How Diplomatic Immunity really works
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- Diplomatic Immunity is one of the rare concepts in International Law which has managed to sneak into the public consciousness through movies and TV series. While most people have heard about the existence of diplomatic immunity, it is very rarely explained in a comprehensive manner.
This video is supposed to give you a basic understanding of diplomatic immunity: Its historic origins tracing back to antiquity to the modern understanding of the concept, including a short overview of the most important legal aspects of what it means to be a diplomat with such protections, with some examples.
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Music:
Bourree (by Joel Cummins)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 History
2:39 International Conventions
2:56 Who gets Diplomatic Immunity?
3:42 Functional immunity
4:35 Personal Immunity
5:25 Misuse of Diplomatic Immunity
6:08 Options for dealing with a Diplomat
7:50 Diplomatic vehicles, homes & embassies
8:36 Diplomatic Bag
9:34 Outro
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Sources:
Anders Henriksen (2019) International Law
Markus Krajewski (2017) International Law
Stefan Kadelbach (2013) Zwingendes Völkerrecht
Encyclopædia Britannica (2021) Diplomatic Immunity: www.britannica.com/topic/dipl...
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instru...
Vienna Convention on consular relations (1963) legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instru...
Convention on Special Missions (1969) legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instru...
convention on the prevention, prosecution and punishment of crimes against persons protected under international law, including diplomats (1973) legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instru...
convention on the representation of states in their relations with international organisations (1975) legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instru...
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That last thing with the bag really scares me. Imagine if some lunatic uses their diplomatic immunity to bring kinder surprise eggs here
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If you're American you can even kill people, without even needing to be legally covered by the rules on dilpomatic immunity
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There was an incident in the UK in early 2020 where a US diplomat hit and run, leaving a motorcyclist dead. The country was very angry that she got away with it without any repercussions.
I would have ordered a diplomat in the USA to go kill someone so that the USA know how it feels. Retribution is a must if dont want them to do it again.
@@kungsjanis5139 with that kind of mindset you'd eventually start a war between the US and UK. One diplomat hitting and running someone without any orders to do so is one thing, its an entirely different thing to order a diplomat to murder some random person.
The uk is an American puppet state, its natural there would be no repercussions
@@mappingshaman5280 "with that kind of mindset you'd eventually start a war between the US and UK." If you must wage war to justice so be it. England is not weak.
"One diplomat hitting and running someone without any orders to do so is one thing, its an entirely different thing to order a diplomat to murder some random person." The diplomat who has killed a citizens of mine should have his immunity revoked and ordered to hand himself in. If this does not happen its only right to kill a relative of his.
@@kungsjanis5139 "if you must wage war to justice so be it." So you'd start a war between nuclear powers killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people which has the potential to cause ww3, just because somebody ran some random person over? That just seems stupid.
"England is not weak." LOL. The only thing its got going for it is nukes. The military has been cut to shit.
"The diplomat who has killed a citizen of mine should have his immunity revoked and hand himself in." Agreed
"If this does not happen its only right to kill a relative of his."
A: how do you know who his relatives are?
B: how is it fair to kill some random person because of what their relative did? An example is Hitler. One of hitlers relatives (i think his nephew but I could be wrong) fought in the US army against Hitler. Do you think its fair to kill that guy purely because he's related to Hitler who is evil?
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*Regarding Kinder Surprise Eggs in the US:*
The original “Kinder Surprise Egg”, the kind which is a hollow chocolate egg with an encased toy inside, is still illegal in the US as of the making of this video. There is, however, a variant called “Kinder Joy Egg”, which has become legal in the US since 2017. This one is fairly different, as it is an egg shaped plastic item of which one half is filled with chocolate cream and the other half contains a toy. You can search pictures of both on google to see the difference.
Just wanted to clarify that since I’ve gotten multiple comments asking about this.
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It makes sense that this was really necessary. In pre-renaissance eras envoys were entirely subject to the whims of it's ruler and this often lead to losing their lives if they had to deliver messages that are particularly poorly received like ultimatums. The mongols come to mind in particular.
Imagine when checking the news, the news reports a diplomat brings kinder surprise eggs to the United States, because of his friends children wants to eat one for his birthday.
Lmao
I don't think they are, I see them a lot, although I'm not sure if they have toys inside them or not. If I recall correctly, they are illegal by techicality. It's against the law to put potential choking hazards inside food, especially food or snacks designed for children. While it's unlikely that anyone will choke on the prize inside the egg, it is still a potential choking hazard hidden within food.
@@nevets2371those are a different kinder egg products.
The Kinder Joy Egg sold in the US is less fun.
and that's totally legal. my father imported alcohol and ham to iran with no problems
as former diplomatic son i can confirm these facts. but in 99.999% of the cases you don't feel your diplomatic status if you behave like a normal human being. having a diplomatic status is an honor you should value but not exploit
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U know last year in India a UAE diplomats diplomatic bag was checked by asking the UAE consolate in India
So maybe everytime you can not smuggle illegal chocolate eggs🥚
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Kinder eggs is also banned in the US don't know why other countries banned this eggs while there are even more toys that are more choke hazard than the toys inside those eggs.
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How did you find out about the German Kinder Surprise operation?
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This is a great video! I want to become a diplomat as I'm studying politics rn
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So about the concept of embassies being the territories of the country being represented; since its still the host country's territory (at least officially), I'd say that the territory on which the embassy stands is leased.
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good video but i feel like it should have covered some more sensative topics like Harry Dunn in the UK was 19 and was killed by US diplomats wife who was driving on the wrong side of the road and fled the UK after hitting him claiming diplomatic immunity and is currently facing no charges despite the UK asking the US to try her in court. whats sensitive here is that it was the diplomats family who asked for immunity and ran away before the crime was reported.
When it came to Julian Assange, they triggered.
And Sacoolas wasn't even covered by diplomatic immunity, but she fled the country before anyone had time to check
In Portugal, the children from the Iraqi Ambassador beaten very harshly a citizen to the point of several week hospitalisation. The whole family refused to drop immunity and they moved back in the end I think
Yeah, they moved back to Iraq.
Wait what the grocery store I work at sells Kinder eggs. Is it just that specific type of kinder egg that’s illegal?
There are two kinds of Kinder eggs "supprise" and "joy" only one of them are legal in USA. There are many videos on YT that can explain this better than me
Diplomat causes fatal car accident:
DRC: "Ok You can try him in France"
Russia: "Nah, but we'll try him at home."
Saudi Arabia: "Just take this bribe."
That's more or less how Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries deal with crime, you can buy your way out of punishment if you compensate the victim or their family.
US: She might not legally be covered by diplomatic immunity, but we're not extriditing her anyway
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Good video
I was just thinking that it would be a great way to bring kinder eggs into the US, then you made the joke!
They’ve been leagal for the past 4 years now
Keep it up good video
Fun Fact: The only countries the Us does not have an embassy with is Bhutan🇧🇹 Iran🇮🇷 North Korea🇰🇵 and Syria🇸🇾
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@@mappingshaman5280 Bhutan is picky with who they recognize, for example they do not recognize the US but recognizes Canada, they do not recognize both Chinas probably for neutrality reasons, etc. It's weird but I ain't da government, I'll have to ask if I ever got the money. They do not even recognize the UK ffor some reason (recognition as in diplomatic relationships)
kinder surprise eggs are actually really common in the us now. idk if they have the surprise inside or not, i've never bought one. but i can hardly go to a grocery store without seeing them nowadays
They made an American version which has the chocolate and toy seperate so they'd be legal in the US
I can't wait
All this only applies if the diplomat isn't American. For American citizens the US seems to enforce an extremely broad definition of who is immune from prosecution
i had never heard of this
Regarding diplomatic immunity, can a state (state A) expell another state's diplomat (state B) as a countermeasure for state B's violation of an international obligation towards state A. I know that states usually conduct this act on international plane but I don't think it is lawful since the diplomats are entitled to immunity and inviolability right, which may only be precluded for national security reasons.
Well, according to the international conventions, a state can legally declare a foreign diplomat ‘persona non grata’ without reason. But in practice, there is usually a reason given, in most cases some form of break-down in diplomatic relations or an incident involving the diplomat. Of course, this does’t immediately expel a diplomat, that would be indeed against international law - but it does give the targeted diplomat a short time window leave the country before the diplomatic immunity expires.
Yes, individuals can be PNGed if they (or their family members) commit a serious enough incident, but usually their own embassy will send them packing first. PNGs are often used for getting caught or being suspected of espionage (which is a government function and thus has some coverage under diplomatic assurances); the US and USSR/Russia expel each others' diplomats fairly regularly if they think they're in their intelligence community, but this decision has to be balanced with having their own spies/possible regular staff expelled in retaliation. Same goes for entire diplomatic facilities, as had happened with the consulates in St. Petersburg and San Francisco, as well as Houston and Chéngdū.
The small spheres representing people look really cute xd
Your diplomatic immunity? Has just been revoked 🔫😎
Diplomatic immunity is when you organise a large cocaine trafficking operation through an embassy in Argentina and get away with it. Or when you nick expensive bikes from all over town and then try to sell a deputy magistrate his own bike and get away with it
Or when you go to India as an ISI trained spy, extract information about Indian Army and Indian Railways, and simply get a PNG.
where is the video about Taiwan? it was deleted. I think that was a pretty nice video.
Is there a special reason why the US and germany were used so often here? Did I miss something or is the channel owner American/German?
This should be used in schools.
Kinder are now legal, so long as the toy and the chocolate are separate. They are in the store near me, you open the egg (in half) and each half of the plastic egg is sealed separately, chocolate on one side toy on the other.
Sabah dispute between Malaysia and Philippines next
Ju-Ju-just like the bad guys, from lethal weapon 2. I’ve got diplomatic immunity! So hammer you can’t sue!
you left out the Mongols and their disproportion retribution for disrespecting their envoys
Last time I was this early the Chinese Consulate in Houston was a thing
In Portugal, the sons of an Iraqi diplomat killed a Portuguese citizen a couple years ago.
This video reminded me of some Qatari prince which had diplomatic immunity in the US and decided to race around Beverly Hills in a Ferrari speeding, blowing stop signs and traffic lights and even hitting an occupied vehicle. He then fled the country and was never arrested.
I remember a few years ago here in holland this happened:
Turkey: *send a minister with diplomatic immunuty to their embassy in Amsterdam to convince dual citizens to vote*
Holland: *TELLS POLICE TO GET READY TO OPEN FIRE ON THAT MINISTER*
This is an oversimplification but I've never seen such a stupid political choice in my life.
I bin watching dich - that made laugh really hard.
Bro can you make a video on india Pakistan conflicts
I have Diplomatic Immunity
So Hammer you can't sue
-Peter Griffin
American diplomat’s wife killed someone in the UK and left the Uk without any charge
All I know about Diplomatic Immunity I learned from Family Guy
Me wondering if this is brain4breakfeast 2.0
it sucks that they made kinder price eggs illegal in the USA
I heard that Kinder eggs have been unbanned from the US since 2020-ish!
Y'know, that red car on the thumbnail does look kinda sus 😳
What about people who work for the UN, do they have diplomatic immunity?
Nice
Kinder surprise eggs are definitely legal in the USA, your information from 2012 is outdated. I worked at a big chain grocery store in college and we sold them (Edit: in 2017 they became legal, look it up).
Those are "Kinder Joy Eggs" and are a variant which is legal in the US since 2017, as you say. The original "Kinder Surprise Eggs" however remain banned.
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I hope one day i will become a diplomat for my countries, Hopefully i pass my exam first joining government embassy bodies.
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The kinder surprise egg ban in the USA is really stupid. I understand that “people can choke on the toys inside them blah blah blah,” but personal guns are allowed in the USA. Presumably there’s been a bunch of lawsuits from kinder eggs, but still...
this is proof that the average person is wayy dumber than you think.
Yeah but kinder surprise eggs are not a amendment
Simply cool. No more, No less.
🤔🤔 so and that is why the kinder company changed the setting of their chocolate surprise eggs by putting the toy at one half of the egg and the chocolate on the other half and each half already enclosed and separated to avoid the kid getting choked with the toy (reason why the kinder surprise eggs were illegal in the US) 🤔🤔
why is dallas in the thumbnail
Baller
What. No comment about Genghis Khan's form of diplomacy? That's what I thought.
If you like the country it's comforting to know they won't get severe punishments abroad and will likely be recalled if the news reaches and really upsets their home country. Free parking is just part of the job but you do not want to be the Russian caught drunk driving in Canada and then sent home to tell Putin what happened, or worse lose their blessing and be charged as a foreigner. Oh yeah and don't try to smuggle a human in your 'diplomatic bag', some people feel compelled to search them if the crime is serious enough and like before you're responsible for your countries reputation and values.
Yeah, the accords on diplomatic relations really rely less on mutual trust and more about a nation's self interest to pick out proper staff for these jobs so they wouldn't be put in a bad light by some scumbag trying to smuggle sex slaves back home in a "Diplomatic -Bag- Container"
Point is: Are these standards still valid? The murder of Jamal Khashoggi an American citizen of Arabic origin by Saudi Diplomats in Turkey back in October 2018 is a clear sign they aren't. But that's also due to the US being especially cuddly with this Totalitarian regime back at that time. Who knows what both Administrations agreed to behind closed doors. Turkey was just the rather unfortunate middle man in this scenario, but it should have cancelled all Relations to SA regardless. The most likely reason President Erdogan didn't? He was on an autocratic Power Trip himself and probably liked the idea to deal with dissidents who fled to Europe.
Yes the german diplomat in the thumbnail is Über dem Gesetz