الفئات المشمولة بالحصانة الدبلوماسية

Abstract EN

Diplomatic immunity, as is known, has been decided in the interest of sovereign States and is intended to give their diplomatic representatives the legal status that allows them to carry out their functions without any interference, by the Governments sent to them, and custom is the main source of diplomatic immunity, thus confirmed by international conventions, most recently the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

In its preamble, she stressed that the purpose of diplomatic immunity was not to distinguish between individuals but to ensure that the diplomatic mission performed its work best as a representative of its state.

Diplomatic immunity includes two types: personal immunity, i.e.

personal inviolability, which means protecting the diplomatic envoy from harming his person and protecting him from any attack against him and preserving his dignity, whether the assault is a national or staff of the State, and the second is the judicial immunity enjoyed by the diplomatic envoy, whether in civil proceedings and exemption from criminal and administrative justice, and diplomatic immunity is granted to certain groups mentioned in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the two most important categories are the first category.

Which includes the heads of diplomatic missions and the second category, which includes diplomatic staff.