ISLAMABAD – The US on Sunday reiterated its demand for the immediate release of Raymond Davis, currently detained in Lahore for killing two Pakistani citizens who attacked him, saying he was a member of the US embassy’s technical and administrative staff, which made him entitled to diplomatic immunity.
The US Embassy once again demanded Davis’s release in a statement that purportedly contained facts about diplomatic immunity and the American diplomat detained in Lahore. It said, “The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) provides diplomatic immunity to all diplomats around the world. Article 37 of the Vienna Convention specifically extends the same criminal immunity that diplomats have to members of the technical and administrative staff of an embassy.”
It said, “The US diplomat detained in Lahore is a member of the US embassy’s technical and administrative staff, and therefore entitled to full criminal immunity and cannot be lawfully arrested or detained in accordance with the convention.”
