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I just hope we don't have double standards and start extraditing people to Saudi Arabia for adultery - even if they committed the "crime" in the UK. While we a
by UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
I just hope we don't have double standards and start extraditing people to Saudi Arabia for adultery - even if they committed the "crime" in the UK.
While we are on the subject shouldn't the UK attempt to extradite US "hate" organisations like the KKK who run a web-site clearly in violation of the UK's Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006.
Seriously, why shouldn't we? It is exactly the same thing, they said something online which is illegal to say in the UK - therefore we should extradite them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoBecause we signed a treaty with the US that lets them do it to us, but does not let us do it to them. When the US signs a treaty that lets us extradite KKK members we can start your policy. I suspect Mexico will have invaded California before then.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoThat isn't completely true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003#Controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003#Controvers...
- rmc 14y ago• Adultery isn't a crime in the UK. • Signatories to the European Convention of Human Rights cannot extradite people to countries where they might face the death penalty. So no extradition to SA if they could be executed. • Extradition requires "double criminality", i.e. that the act is a crime in both countries. US Constitutional law means that hate groups are not breaking the law in the US and hence the US would not extradite them.