A country ‘cannot enforce its law on the territory of another state’ without consent, a United Nations rapporteur tells Al Jazeera.
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Washington, DC – As the global outcry over the US abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro continues to grow, officials in Washington are relying on the United States’ own criminal charges to justify its military operation.
But experts stress that countries cannot use their own indictments to attack another state, rejecting framing Maduro’s “capture” as a legal arrest.
