Australia will become the first of the western “five eyes” intelligence countries to ratify an extradition treaty with China in a controversial move aimed at addressing Beijing’s fight on money laundering and drug crime. It follows a diplomatic push by Chinese preside to conclude treaties with western powers as part of his anti-corruption […]
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A Greek court decided on Tuesday to extradite three Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup against President Tayyip Erdogan in July. Turkey’s government has requested the rapid extradition of the eight men, whom it has described as traitors, to face charges of trying to overthrow the country’s […]
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Alani Afu, a 49 year old man accused of stabbing a woman to death in Sydney in 1990 has been extradited from Tonga to Australia to face charges of murder. Mr Afu has spent the last two decades living quietly on a Pacific Island, but after an unsuccessful appeal against […]
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Lawyers and law school professors from around the world congregated in Oxford, England in the last week in August to brainstorm on alternative methods of extradition in light of the possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. A poll of participants indicated that virtually all considered the […]
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The European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the extradition by Latvia of Aleksei Petruhhin, an Estonian citizen, to Russia does not contravene the principles of non-discrimination under EU law. Specifically, the Court ruled that a member state is not required to grant a national of another member state who is the subject of […]
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The first edition of the two-day Advanced Seminar in International Extradition was held at the University of Oxford on August 29-30, 2016. The program brought together 18 scholars, legal practitioners and researchers from Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Malta, Spain and the USA to discuss and analyze international extradition practices and current trends. The seminar […]
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Turkish PM Binali Yildirim confirmed on Tuesday that a formal extradition request for Fethullah Gulen has been sent to the US. Mr Yildirim has been accused by Erdogan of being linked to Friday’s coup attempt. Mr Gulen, a Turkish cleric who has lived for years in exile in Pennsylvania has denied any involvement, and has accused Erdogan […]
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A Court in Norway refused to provide guarantees to Mr Snowden that he would not be arrested and extradited to the US if he visited Oslo. Mr Snowden has been awarded a free speech award by the Norwegian branch of the PEN club. “Oslo District Court has decided that the lawsuit from Edward Snowden […]
Read moreSabrina de Sousa, the Ex CIA agent who is set to be extradited to Italy to serve a sentence for the kidnapping of Abu Omar recently gave an interview to VICE News. During this interview, she state that she has reached out to several US officials and public figures, such […]
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Sabrina de Sousa, a former CIA agent lost his last appeal before the Constitutional Court of Portugal. She faces a 4 year sentence for the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar in Milan. Ms. De Sousa was convicted in absentia by a Milan Court in 2009 together with more […]
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