9th Feb 2022
Russian and US relations continue to be fraught, with confrontational rhetoric from both sides on a weekly basis. The tension between the two states is not limited to any one issue or arena of conflict, and encompasses potential war in Ukraine, traditional and cyber-espionage, disinformation campaigns and economic sanctions. One battlefield that has received less […]
21st Jan 2022
On 18 January 2021, Ahmed Mansour, an Emirati human rights defender and blogger filed a complaint in a Paris court, France, accusing Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi, the newly elected INTERPOL president and Emirati military General, of torture. Concerns were raised prior to Al-Raisi’s presidential nomination in 2021 (Peters and Peters covered here), in part due to […]
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31st Mar 2021
In a letter sent to the EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee of the House of Lords earlier this month, the Home Office confirmed that ten EU States will opt-in to the nationality exception in Title VII of Part 3 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement 2020 (“the TCA”), which makes provision for post-Brexit surrender […]
9th Dec 2020
Alexander Vinnik, the Russian alleged founder of the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, has been sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment in France and ordered to pay a €100,000 fine for laundering the proceeds of cybercrime. Mr Vinnik, dubbed “Mr Bitcoin” by the press, was extradited to France from Greece in 2018. Mr Vinnik’s initial arrest by Greek […]
5th Nov 2020
The Court d’appeal de Paris (appellate court), on 4 November 2020, refused the UK extradition request in respect of former Barclays trader Phillippe Moryoussef, and ordered his discharge on the grounds that the conduct contained in the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) was not a crime in France at the time it occurred. Mr Moryoussef was […]
15th Oct 2020
The Irish High Court has, for the third time, refused French authorities’ request to extradite Ian Bailey to serve a 25 year sentence for the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Planitier in Schull, West Cork in 1996. The first request for Mr Bailey’s extradition was made in 2010 but the decision to order […]
12th Aug 2020
Hong Kong announced on Wednesday 12 August that it had suspended extradition arrangements with France and Germany. The announcement comes in the wake of corresponding announcements by the two European Member States in response to the imposition by China of controversial national security legislation on the region. Germany announced the suspension of extradition to Hong […]
4th Aug 2020
The French Foreign Ministry announced in a statement released yesterday, 3 August, that it will not proceed with the ratification of the extradition agreement between France and Hong Kong, signed on 4 May 2017. The decision was taken in response to the imposition by Beijing of the controversial national security law on the region, which […]
23rd May 2020
British businessman David Noakes, whose extradition to France on nine charges (including the marketing of unauthorised medicines) was ordered on 7 November 2019, was arrested in Cornwall on 20 May 2020 after five months as a fugitive. Mr Noakes was previously sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment in the UK after he pleaded guilty in 2018 […]
23rd Mar 2020
The Trump administration has criticised the ‘unilateral’ decision of French authorities to release Iranian citizen Jalal Rohollahnejad, who is the subject of a US extradition request, in an apparent prisoner exchange with Iran. A French court had in May 2019 approved Mr Rohollahnejad’s extradition to the US. Mr Rohollahnejad is wanted to stand trial […]
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