The annual seminar on International Extradition and the European Arrest Warrant has attracted over 100 extradition experts since 2016 (programs in Oxford and Lake Iseo, Italy) and is now a well-established tradition for extradition experts around the world. In 2020, the seminar has now been rescheduled to October 5-6, 2020. […]
Read more
The book includes a paper on the key concepts of extradition law and practice (double criminality, speciality principle, ne bis in idem, assurances) and the typical course of an international extradition case. It then outlines the 30 most famous cases of extradition in history (from Assange to Puidgemont, from Eichmann to Battisti). Dr Stefano Maffei is an academic lawyer at the University of Parma […]
Read more
In June 2019, Ian Bailey was convicted by a Paris court for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French film producer. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered while on holiday in the west of County Cork in December 1996. Bailey was sentenced to 25 years in prison and […]
Read more
Carlos Ghosn, the former head of automobile giants Nissan and Renault, is arguably the most famous fugitive in 2020. Ghosn had been under house arrest in Japan after posting $14 million in bail, before making a dramatic and mysterious escape from the country in December 2019. He was awaiting trial on charges […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more