List of people who took refuge in a diplomatic mission
Columns: Name | Notability | Reason for Seeking Refuge | Country | City | Missions Country | Start Date | End Date | Resolution
José Manuel Balmaceda | President of Chile | Defeated in the Chilean Civil War | Chile | Santiago | Argentina | August 29, 1891 | September18,1891 | Committed suicide | Leonardo Argüello Barreto | President of Nicaragua | Ousted by Anastasio Somoza García | Nicaragua | Managua | Mexico | May26,1947 | December1947 | Negotiated exile in Mexico | Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán | President of Guatemala | Ousted by Carlos Castillo Armas | Guatemala | Guatemala City | Mexico | June27,1954 | June28,1954 | Negotiated exile in Mexico | József Mindszenty | Hungarian Roman Catholic Church cardinal | Soviet Intervention | Hungary | Budapest | United States | November4,1956 | November4,1971 (total 15 years) | Negotiated exile in Austria | Reino Häyhänen | Soviet Lieutenant Colonel | defection | France | Paris | United States | November4,1956 | May 1957 | Moved to the United States | The Siberian Seven | Siberian Pentecostals | prevented from emigrating | Soviet Union | Moscow | United States | June27,1978 | June27,1983 (total: 5 years (last of them)) | Allowed to emigrate to Israel and later the U.S. | Ange Patasse | Central African opposition leader | opposing Andre Kolingba government | Central African Republic | Bangui | France | February27,1982 | March3,1982 | Negotiated exile to Togo | Fang Lizhi and his wife | dissident in Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | forced end of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | China PRC | Beijing | United States | June5,1989 | June25,1990 | Negotiated flight to the United States | Hou Dejian | dissident in Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | forced end of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | China PRC | Beijing | Australia | June1989 | August16,1989 | Negotiated exit and deported back to native Taiwan | Manuel Noriega | President of Panama | United States invasion of Panama | Panama | Ciudad de Panama | Holy See | December24,1989 | January3,1990 | Negotiated arrest by United States forces | Michel Aoun | Lebanese Army commander | defeated in Lebanese Civil War | Lebanon | Beirut | France | October1990 | August27,1991 | Left to exile in France | Sylvestre Ntibantunganya | President of Burundi | military coup d'état | Burundi | Bujumbura | United States | July23,1996 | June1997 | Negotiated exit | João Bernardo Vieira | President of Guinea-Bissau | Guinea-Bissau Civil War | Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | Portugal | May1999 | June1999 | Negotiated exile in Portugal | Alassane Ouattara | Presidential candidate in Côte d'Ivoire | First Ivorian Civil War | Côte d'Ivoire | Abidjan | France | September19,2002 | November2002 | Negotiated exile in Gabon and France | Shahram Amiri | ian Iran nuclear scientist | disappeared from Iran | United States | Washington D.C. | Pakistan | July13,2010 | July14,2010 | returned to Iran