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Who has hidden in an embassy for longer than Julian Assange?

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

Embassy endurance

Julian Assange was thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, seven years after seeking sanctuary from extradition proceedings. But there are people who have hidden longer in embassies:
— Jozsef Mindszenty, a Hungarian cardinal, spent 15 years in asylum in the US embassy in Budapest. He had served eight years in jail for opposing the communist regime but was freed during the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

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