Two Saudi Arabian sisters resident in Turkey are fighting their extradition to Saudi Arabia, which they say they fled to escape an abusive family. Ashwaq and Areej Hamoud were detained in Turkey after their father claimed that their intention in leaving Saudi Arabia had been to join terrorist groups in Syria, but no public criminal […]
An Austrian court has halted the extradition of Dmitry Firtash from Austria to the US, while it hears an application to reconsider its original extradition order. Mr Firtash is a Ukrainian billionaire linked to President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, and is wanted by the US on bribery charges relating to titanium deals in […]
Jamaica has received several extradition requests from the US for people the US suspects of being involved in a lottery scam that is estimated to have been worth around $1bn a year. Jamaica’s Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has acknowledged the requests and pledged to deal with them quickly, although most of the wanted people have […]
A court in Spain has ruled in favour of China’s request to extradite 121 Taiwanese people, who are suspected of involvement in Spanish gangs that defrauded people in China out of millions of pounds through telephone scams. Spain has an extradition treaty with China.
A Belgian Court is due to rule on 14 December on whether former-Catalan President Carlos Puigdemont will be extradited to Spain, where he faces charges of sedition, rebellion, and misuse of public funds. Mr Puigdemont fled to Belgium following the Catalan parliament’s declaration of independence from Spain in October, stating that he would not receive […]
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said that Mikheil Saakashvili, former Governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region and former President of Georgia, will not face arrest or extradition after he returned to Ukraine in spite of his Ukrainian citizenship having been revoked. Saakashvili is wanted in Georgia on allegations of abuse of power and embezzlement during […]
A Saudi Arabian Public Prosecutor has said that Saudi Arabia extradited 91 people under judicial cooperation agreements and 14 people to countries with no agreement in 2015-16. Speaking to the 22nd annual conference of the International Association of Prosecutors, Sheikh Saud bin Abdullah Al Muajab said that the 105 individuals were wanted under a variety […]
UK MPs have called on the government to resist US calls for the extradition of British hacking suspect Lauri Love, who faces a maximum of 99 years imprisonment if convicted in the US. Mr Love is accused by the US of engaging in cyberattacks against government websites, such as the Federal Reserve and US army, […]
Mr Konecny appealed against his extradition from the UK to the Czech Republic on a conviction EAW. He had been convicted in his absence in 2008 of three fraud offences and sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment. The Administrative Court dismissed his appeal, in Konecny v District Court Czech Republic [2017] EWHC 2360 (Admin). Passage of […]
The French courts have focused on one particular case of abuse – the disappearance of Hernan Abriata, a 25-year-old architecture student whose body has never been found. The Court of Appeal determined that, because Abriata’s body has never been found and no witnesses have attested to his death, the offence is ongoing and therefore no […]
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