Then he accused him of spying and sacked him.

Trying to, I should say. You admit you were out there snooping?

Journalists are killed, scientists are accused of espionage, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky remains unjustly imprisoned.

So far, the US authorities have focused on bringing Snowden home to face espionage charges.

He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors and talking back is called insubordination , just as if a worker was a naughty child.

Furthermore, refusing to grant her a visa on the grounds of presumed intelligence activity is an absurd argument, especially since René González was not accused of espionage or of any of the other grounds mentioned in section 212.

The independent expert raised the case of Zamzam Ahmed Dualeh, the imprisoned 17 year old girl accused of espionage and sentenced to five years' incarceration in a  Somaliland prison (see paragraph 33 above), noting that the minor was reported to be in danger and that perhaps the case had attracted disproportionate international attention, but that a resolution could be found.

One need only recall the recent case of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who was unjustly accused of spying, to be reminded of how yin and yang are America s feelings about minority members in sensitive positions.

He also called for the release of five Cuban revolutionaries who had been wrongly charged with espionage and whose only crime had been gathering information on extreme right wing Cuban American groups with long histories of violent attacks against Cuba.

At length the old hound burst into view with muzzle to the ground, and snapping the air as if possessed, and ran directly to the rock but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked round and round him in silence and one by one her pups arrived, and, like their mother, were sobered into silence by the mystery.

On December 9, 2012, Khartabil was brought before a military prosecutor without an attorney present, and charged with spying for an enemy State . He was then sent to the Adra Prison in Damascus, where he has been held, until today.

The Special Rapporteur has further been informed that, on 28 August 1994, in Beli Manastir, UNPA Sector East, two Croat journalists, Steve Gaunt and Anita Rajkovic, were arrested in the separation zone by quot Republic of Serbian Krajina quot authorities and charged with espionage.

So far, the US authorities have focused on bringing Snowden home to face espionage charges. But it is in America s national interest to ensure that the Vienna Convention is respected without question and as a matter of routine in order to ensure the safety and inviolability of its own missions abroad.

In another disturbing case, a Houthi court in the capital Sana'a, sentenced journalist Yahya al Jubaihi, in arbitrary detention since September 2016, to death, following what rights groups described as an unfair trial. The prominent 61 year old writer and journalist was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia.

Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and fifth columns have been strong. One need only recall the recent case of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who was unjustly accused of spying, to be reminded of how yin and yang are America s feelings about minority members in sensitive positions.