Originally Posted by Rochard

Because in the Western world we value the rights on the individual. I understand they do this on a regular basis, but they cannot do this to someone who resides in the United States (I don't believe he was a full citizen, but was in the US on some type of resident visa) who was working for an American newspaper.

They might be able to do that in their country and we might look the other way, but not when we are directly involved.