“The United States said Friday that it did not believe in ‘diplomatic asylum’ after Ecuador offered to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stay indefinitely in its embassy in London. In May, Chinese human rights campaigner Chen Guangcheng fled to the US embassy in Beijing after evading house arrest and beatings. Fang Lizhi, a key figure in the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, lived in the US embassy in Beijing with his wife for more than one year before he was allowed to go into exile in the United States in a deal brokered with Japan.”
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