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> What is the difference between asking for extradition and pressuring to deny asylum? Asylum is considered a basic human right. I've posted elsewhere: https:
by jpdoctor 13y ago
> What is the difference between asking for extradition and pressuring to deny asylum?
Asylum is considered a basic human right. I've posted elsewhere:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974330
- gohrt 13y ago> This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes Anyway, it really doesn't make sense to talk about asylum in relation to the country being fled. The declaration is a statement of what the destination state should do when it recognizes a case of persecution. 'Persecution' is inherently a subjective concept.