Deporting or rendering a person sought by another state for prosecution.
Between states in the United States of America the process is known as rendition.
Between nations extradition is typically governed by treaties and diplomatic process.
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How do extraditions work between countries with different law contexts?
As part of an international investigation between Morocco and the FBI, the 21-year-old Frenchman was arrested and jailed in Morocco. He is wanted by the United States for his alleged involvement in cybercrime against companies, some of which are…
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How hard is it for for Russia to get New Zealand to extradite people wanted for crimes in Russia?
Does New Zealand have an extradition treaty with Russia? In any case, I heard recently that NZ is sometimes willing to extradite to countries that it doesn’t have treaties with. But how hard or easy is it in practice?..have many people been…
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Is it possible to file a criminal case on a person who doesn't even live in your country?
Follow follow up to this question. I got reminded today somehow that this actually happened in my life, and to date nothing has happened. I gave into their request and deleted the review so that they'd stop spam calling me.
Anyhow, I want to ask: is…
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Can a person serving a sentence be extradited?
Can a person serving a sentence be extradited? Let's say a person serves a 10 year sentence in the U.S., but China wants to get him extradited so he can be tried and then jailed for murder. How does that work according to U.S. law? Does the person…
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Would Australia extradite an Australian fugitive who escaped from an Indonesian prison?
If an Australian was convicted of committing a crime in Indonesia, then escaped from an Indonesian prison, and somehow made it back to Australian soil, would the Australian government extradite them back to Indonesia?
Let's say the crime was drug…
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Can the U.S demand extradition of a non-U.S national who committed a crime against a U.S national in a country other than the U.S.?
Is it true that the U.S can ask extradition of a non U.S person who has committed a crime against a U.S citizen in a country other than the U.S? I mean, I don't condone crimes but how can it possibly be that a person who has never set food in the…
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Extradition and rendition
As a non-lawyer, I have an understanding of the terms in the subject line that comes from TV shows, stuff I heard somewhere, Facebook, etc. And that understanding so far is this:
Rendition is the act of one state handing someone over to another…
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Do governments with Rule of Law sometimes (too broad of word?) hand over their citizens even without extradition treaties?
Prompted by this question.
For example, officials from Cuba or Iran (or even friendly countries like Taiwan, Ukraine, etc) officials go to US officials, present evidence that one of their nationals committed a crime in the source country then…
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can you get prosecuted for a crime in country(A) for a crime that took place in country (B)?
if (Bob) who lives in country(A) infringes copyright of citizens of country (B) and hacks into country(B) government servers and continues to do crime against country(B),if country (A) and country(B) have no extradition treaty with eachother:
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Arrests in absense of extradition?
If country A and B has no extradition treaty, then can B arrest As citizens residing in B if A requests?
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can I be extradited to Manchester if I am from Manitoba, Canada and commit a crime in Manchester?
Now this is hypothetical, but let's say I visit Manchester, UK, but I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
While in Manchester, I set a building on fire, or I murder someone. Greater Manchester police figure out that I did it, and find out I'm in…
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Being extradited just for loss of time
In case a person living in a European country gets sued in an other European country because at the suer's say the interested person has committed such and such a thing against them, while it is supposed in this very scenario that the latter is…
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