Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested -for failing to surrender to the court- at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He stayed there for seven years, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew […]
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The international Extradition expert group will meet again in Italy in June 2019 to investigate current worldwide developments in extradition law. The seminar will feature a roundtable interactive discussion with academic lawyers, practitioners, judges, prosecutors and law students & graduates with an interest for supranational criminal law. Participation in the seminar is […]
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Soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi, a citizen of Bahrain who was sentenced in Thailand and faced being sent back to his native country, where he said he would be jailed and tortured, was released. He was then able to go back to Australia, where he plays in a team in Melbourne and has refugee […]
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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the United States was “working on” extraditing Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim religious leader who is wanted in Turkey on charges that he instigated a failed coup that occurred in 2016. Mr. Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the 1990s. Mr. Cavusoglu said that, during […]
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Lauri Love, who was accused of launching cyber attacks on targets such as the FBI, the US army, Nasa and the Department of Defence, will not be extradited to the USA. The High Court indeed ruled that he should be tried in Britain, as he suffered severe mental illness and could kill himself […]
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Since December 1, 2018, Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of the Chinese company Huawei, also daughter of the founder, has been detained in Vancouver upon request of American authorities, prompting a diplomatic struggle between China and U.S.A. Ms. Meng’s counsels asked to grant her bail while she awaits a decision on whether she will be […]
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For more than 30 years, Ishmael Muslim Ali has lived a relatively full and unremarkable life in Cuba: this may seem quite an unpredictable story for an international fugitive. However, recently, US President Trump announced a partial halt to relations with Cuba unless certain requests were satisfied. Handing over Mr. Ali, who […]
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Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been deported to Gemany from the US after years of diplomatic debates over his status. Mr. Palij is accused of having illegally gained entry to the US almost 70 years ago, falsely claiming he was a Polish farmer. Almost 20 […]
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Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister rejected the request by the Turkish government to try the suspects in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, saying that the suspects would be prosecuted in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and a columnist for The Washington Post who was also a critic […]
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The UK Judge John Zani rejected an extradition request issued by Turkey for Hamdi Akin İpek and three other Turkish nationals. The judge reasoned his decision as the request was “politically motivated”, and also on the grounds that extraditing would lead to a real risk of breaches of Article III of […]
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