Context: Indian Ambassador received consular access to the eight Indian prisoners who are held in Qatar.
What is Consular access?
- It is the ability of foreign nationals to have access to consulate or embassy officials of their country in the host nation.
- It is granted under the rules of Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963.
- Article 36 of the Vienna Convention states that foreign nationals who are arrested or detained be given notice without delay of their right to have their embassy or consulate notified of that arrest.