Q. What do you understand by Asylum? Is Asylum a right of a person? [2015 - 4 marks]
Q. Define Asylum. What is extraterritorial asylum? [2017 - 4 marks, 2018 - 10 marks]
Asylum:
In international law, asylum is the protection granted by a state, to a foreign citizen against his own state. Asylum is not a legal right. It solely depends on the state whether to provide asylum to someone or not.
For example, Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin were given asylum in England to protect them from the fatwa issued against them in their own respective states.
Extraterritorial asylum
Extraterritorial asylum refers to asylum granted in embassies, legations, consulates, warships, and merchant vessels in foreign territory and is thus granted within the territory of the state from which protection is sought.
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