On 10th March 2022, INTERPOL announced that heightened supervision and monitoring measures in relation to Russia had been implemented by the Secretary General and endorsed by INTERPOL’s Executive Committee. The measures, which have taken immediate effect, and were implemented following calls from Ukraine, the UK, and others for Russia’s complete suspension from INTERPOL (covered by […]
On 28 February 2022, the Home Secretary made an oral statement to Parliament, informing the house that the Ukrainian Government requested that Russia be suspended from INTERPOL. The request, which follows Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is part of wider efforts to isolate Russia from the global community, including severe economic sanctions imposed by Western governments […]
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 […]
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General confirmed on Wednesday 12 August that his office has requested the extradition of 28 suspected Russian mercenaries detained last month in Belarus on charges of terrorism. It is reported that the request was first made in the course of a telephone conversation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko […]
The European Court of Human Rights has refused a request filed by Volodymyr Tsemakh to bar his extradition to the Netherlands from Russia. Dutch prosecutors are seeking Mr Tsemakh as a suspect in the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 which resulted in the death of 298 people, […]
Dutch prosecutors have asked the Russian Federation to extradite Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Tsemakh, in connection with the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Mr Tsemakh is both a key witness and a potential suspect in respect of the attack on the aircraft which resulted in the deaths of […]
Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia, has been deported from Ukraine to Poland. He lost his Georgian citizenship when he became a citizen of Ukraine in 2015, and was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship by Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko in July last year. Ukraine twice turned down extradition requests for Mr Saakashvili from Georgia, but […]
Ukraine’s Minister of Justice, Pavlo Petrenko, said this week that “there are no legal obstacles” to continuing the extradition procedure concerning former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Mr Saakashvili was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship in 2017, 2 years after former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko granted it and appointed him governor of Odessa Oblast, and Georgia […]
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 […]
Sri Lanka’s parliament has voted in favour of extradition agreements with China, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Sri Lanka’s Minister of Justice, Thalatha Atukorala, said during debates that she expected Sri Lanka to work together with the other countries to implement the agreements.
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