Nathalie DERMESROBIAN
II. The Vulnerability of the Indo US Relations: The Devyani Khobragade Case
A. Events:
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian Deputy Consul General in New York, was charged, on the 11th of December 2013, with visa fraud, sentenced at a maximum of 10 years in prison, as well as making willingly false statements , sentenced at a maximum of five years of imprisonment . A warrant was issued and Khobragade was arrested on the December 12th of 2013, after dropping off her children at school. She was strip-searched and after a 250,000 $ bail as well as giving away her passport, she was released. In an email Khobragade wrote to her friends and colleagues that were later on published fully by the Washington Post, included statements like: “the indignities of repeated handcuffing, stripping, and cavity searches, swabbing” as well as “being held with common criminals and drug addicts” . Those statements caused an extremely violent reaction throughout Indian media. The U.S. Marshals Service spokesman, Nikki Credic-Barret, indicated that Khobragade was strip searched according to a set protocol to every individual accessing a federal courthouse; however not exposed to a cavity search . The US attorney for the Southern District of New York repeatedly pointed out that …show more content…
. Accommodating domestic laws to the cultural sensitivities of another state was not what Anagondaballi and Zhu were suggesting, but rather, the existence of a cultural nuance in order to prevent the manifestation of such
II. The Vulnerability of the Indo US Relations: The Devyani Khobragade Case
A. Events:
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian Deputy Consul General in New York, was charged, on the 11th of December 2013, with visa fraud, sentenced at a maximum of 10 years in prison, as well as making willingly false statements , sentenced at a maximum of five years of imprisonment . A warrant was issued and Khobragade was arrested on the December 12th of 2013, after dropping off her children at school. She was strip-searched and after a 250,000 $ bail as well as giving away her passport, she was released. In an email Khobragade wrote to her friends and colleagues that were later on published fully by the Washington Post, included statements like: “the indignities of repeated handcuffing, stripping, and cavity searches, swabbing” as well as “being held with common criminals and drug addicts” . Those statements caused an extremely violent reaction throughout Indian media. The U.S. Marshals Service spokesman, Nikki Credic-Barret, indicated that Khobragade was strip searched according to a set protocol to every individual accessing a federal courthouse; however not exposed to a cavity search . The US attorney for the Southern District of New York repeatedly pointed out that …show more content…
. Accommodating domestic laws to the cultural sensitivities of another state was not what Anagondaballi and Zhu were suggesting, but rather, the existence of a cultural nuance in order to prevent the manifestation of such