i don't understand how iran was able to arrest abdolmalek rigi on a flight from dubai to krygyzstan. how do iranian agents get authority to make an arrest on that flight? which country would have jurisdiction to make an arrest in the air on an international route?
i thought the governing legal authority is the country of the air carrier. but the dubai to bishkek flight presumably was with an emirati airline (kyrgyzstan airlines doesn't fly to dubai). that wouldn't give iranians any arresting powers. they would have to ask the emiratis to do it, and then hope that the emiratis would honor the request.
maybe i'm wrong about what law applies. maybe the iranian agents waited until they were in iranian airspace before making the arrest? did the security officians in dubai let them on board with weapons? and then they landed (presumably in bishkek), there's no guarantee that the kyrgyz authories would let the iranians keep their detainee. and even if they did, wouldn't that be an extradition process?
does anyone know how this could have worked? the fact that the arrest was aided by pakistan doesn't answer the in-the-air jurisdiction question.
meanwhile, bishkek is just down the road from taraz. local excitement!
