• parzival@lemmy.org
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    1 day ago

    He was though… He was in hong long, got kicked out from us pressure, fled to costa Rica or smth with a stop in russia, but the us got his foreign passport invalidated so russia kept him there.

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      1 day ago

      Passport revocation means nothing in this case. He left Hong Kong after his passport was revoked because China didn’t want him. He couldn’t leave Russia because Putin wanted him.

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          8 hours ago

          That dude has a history of not understanding what is going on. The only thing the passport revocation did was give Russia an additional excuse to tell him to keep him in the airport instead of allowing him to meet people outside the airport while they figured out what to do with him. They could have let him out of the airport or onto an airplane at any time. There is no requirement for travel documents to deport someone from your country.

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            59 minutes ago

            Obviously, but they couldn’t have technically (important word here) held him there without the revocation