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It's possible to extradite people only following an agreement about their treatment post-extradition. For example the receiving party could agree to not further
by _delirium 11y ago
It's possible to extradite people only following an agreement about their treatment post-extradition. For example the receiving party could agree to not further extradite them. This kind of agreement happens fairly often. A common example is extraditions to the US from EU countries. Following a 1989 decision of the European Court of Human Rights [1], EU countries cannot extradite suspects to the US if they would face the death penalty in the US. Therefore in every extradition from the EU to the US involving a potentially capital crime, the US first signs a waiver agreeing not to seek the death penalty in the case.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soering_v_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soering_v_United_Kingdom
- reillyse 11y agoHowever I'm not sure an agreement is required and (I believe) agreements are usually only made concerning laws or punishments that are not applicable in the pre-extradition country. Therefore if Sweden and the USA can agree that breaching national security secrets is a crime in the USA and Sweden recognize a similar crime (which I'm sure they do), and the USA agree not to kill Assange I don't see any reason why they couldn't extradite.