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You can live a whole life not leaving your country. If you leave your country, you subject yourself to the jurisdiction of wherever you go. While you're in that
by legalcorrection 5y ago
You can live a whole life not leaving your country. If you leave your country, you subject yourself to the jurisdiction of wherever you go. While you're in that other country, they can arrest you and put you through their system. Why should you be allowed to commit a crime, and just because you got away with it long enough to flee the country, not be sent back to the place you committed it?
For what it's worth, some countries do refuse to extradite their own citizens, and will instead try their own citizens for their foreign crimes if they think there's enough evidence and severity. But that's not necessarily a better system. The evidence is in a foreign country, and you can't effectively subpoena people in foreign countries to make them produce documents or take the stand.
- codedokode 5y ago> You can live a whole life not leaving your country. As I undertand, that doesn't prevent you from being extradited. Here are quotes from the article which hint at that: > US prosecutors, including Faruqui, had argued that he [South Korean citizen who owned a server] should be extradited to the United States to face charges in the American justice system, but Korea had denied their request. > With the help of the Dutch national police, they arrested the site’s alleged administrator in the Netherlands, a man named Michael Rahim Mohammad, who went by the online handle “Mr. Dark.” He faces criminal charges in the US, and his case is ongoing. > For what it's worth, some countries do refuse to extradite their own citizens And that is a right thing. > The evidence is in a foreign country, and you can't effectively subpoena people in foreign countries to make them produce documents or take the stand. The prosecutors from a foreign country can gather evidence themselves.