UN diplomat dodges NYC rape rap thanks to diplomatic immunity: cops pic.twitter. On-duty police officer Yvonne Fletcher was murdered in London in 1984, by a person shooting from inside the Libyan embassy during a protest. The immunity applies regardless of the seriousness of the crime the diplomatic agent is accused of, including human rights violations and crimes under.
“It’s incredibly disturbing that someone who is accused of rape cannot be held accountable no matter what the facts,” Jane Manning, director of the Women’s Equal Justice project and a former sex-crimes prosecutor, told The Post. “I hope that the NYPD detectives will still do a full and thorough investigation to establish what the evidence shows.” In June 2014, the New Zealand government confirmed that Mohammed Rizalman Bin Ismail from Malaysia, aged in his 30s and employed at Malaysia's High Commission in Wellington, had invoked diplomatic immunity when faced with charges of burglary and assault with intent to rape after allegedly following a 21-year-old woman to her home. He was brought in for questioning by detectives from the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit, but released after informing police he was beyond the law.
A United Nations representative from Africa was busted by the NYPD for an alleged rape Sunday, then sprung almost immediately because he has diplomatic immunity, police said.Ĭharles Dickens Imene Oliha, 46, who works for the South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, allegedly assaulted a neighbor in her apartment Sunday afternoon, the New York Post reported. A Sudanese man accused of a New York City rape was able to duck the charges due to his position as a United Nations diplomat, a get-out-of-jail-free card by virtue of diplomatic immunity, a highly.