Quote Originally Posted by Snowhobbit View Post
It has everything to do with this. If you voluntarily of your own free will decide to stay in a house for years and years, nobody has detained you.
If I have reason to believe that my personal safety and human rights are threatened, that I won't be given a fair trial, I have every right to run away or lock myself in a safe place.

That was the standard for many political activists and western nations, UK and Sweden included, accepted that when it happened in the rest of the world. When it happened in their own country, with their own citizens, well... It again shows that democracy and human rights never had anything to do with anything, but you go on.