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		vorticalbox on Dec 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financia... I was under the impression that unless you left the airport you're not technically in that country. That's how Julian Assange evaded arrest.

goodcanadian on Dec 6, 2018 [–]

Not so. The airport is definitely the territory of the country in which it resides. You do not have to clear immigration to be subject to that nation's laws.

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