Quote from: kmfkewm on August 16, 2012, 09:49 amQuote from: AnOn.edu on August 16, 2012, 06:45 amWhere asylum gets tricky is that an embassy can grant it to someone, however getting that someone out of the embassy and the country is a whole different story. The soil might be sovereign but the airspace out of it isn't. There are many cases of people granted asylum who have had to live in the embassy for a long time until the diplomatic angles can be worked out between the two countries.They could smuggle him out in a diplomatic bagTricky.Diplomatic Bags are designated for "official materials" and I'm not sure Assange counts as such. They could put him in a diplomatic car which the Police have the power to stop, but not to search - of course he'd also presumably have to get out of the car at some point but I imagine he would be safe enough once he got outside the city itself provided the driver knows what he's doing...The Ecuadorean government could also grant him temporary diplomatic status although this wouldn't necessarily grant him immunity from arrest.The UK government are citing the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/46) which effectively gives the British government carte blanche to revoke an Embassy's status. Only a race of people as arrogant as we British could create a law to try and undermine the one inviolate rule!More info : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18521881V.