"Mr. Devillers will still benefit from the full and entire consular protection while in China through our embassy in China, " he said.

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The Danes say that an Iraqi, previously given political asylum in Denmark, and therefore under Danish consular protection, is indeed in jail in Moscow after being detained on suspicion of helping the Chechen rebels.

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