Practice question
A person faces a prosecution stipulated to be genuine and to arise from a non-political crime. Counsel argues that UDHR Article 14 creates an exceptionless asylum entitlement against that prosecution, based solely on the declaration. Without resolving any separate refugee-treaty issue, which reading of Article 14 is correct?
- Every criminal prosecution is necessarily persecution
- Article 14 has no qualification
- Any assertion of fear automatically proves asylum entitlement
- Article 14(2) expressly limits invocation in the stipulated genuine non-political-crime prosecution setting
- The declaration abolishes all criminal jurisdiction
Legal references
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 14-16 and 29-30, UN General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III), December 10, 1948, official text: https://www.un.org/en/node/124305
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