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  • v  hand over to the authorities of another country
    They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there

  • Now, at 44, the once mighty entrepreneur sits under house arrest in Vancouver, meekly awaiting word on whether Canada will extradite him home to face charges of smuggling, bribery .
  • But the Russian media scoffed that this was an asymmetrical kind of justice, citing the British rebuff of Moscow's bids to extradite exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the .
  • After two Libyans were accused of planting a bomb in 1988 on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded ever Lockerbie, Scotland, and killed 270 people, Gaddafi's refusal to extradite the .
News & Articles

  • Edward Snowden, professed NSA leaker, may have few safe havens
    The self-identified source who leaked documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post regarding top-secret government surveillance programs may face limited options if he is charged and the United States tries to extradite him.Edward Snowden, 29, has been called a hero and a traitor since his name became attached to the high-profile disclosure of classified documents to reporters. A three ...
    June 11, 2013 - MSNBC
  • Experts: Snowden Extradition from Hong Kong Could be Complicated
    Experts said Monday that any attempt to extradite the man who says he leaked details about the U.S. government's secret monitoring of phone calls and Internet use from Hong Kong could be long and complicated. The U.S. and Hong Kong signed an extradition treaty in 1996, just before the British handed over control of the territory to China, in which both parties agreed to hand over fugitives ...
    June 10, 2013 - Voice of America
  • NSA contractor risks steep jail time for data leak
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security, has revealed his own identity. He risked decades in jail for the disclosures — if the U.S. can extradite him from Hong Kong where he has taken refuge.
    June 10, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Reuters
    Iranian parliament member Ali Aqazadeh said: "Iran is hoping that Pakistan will take steps ...... to extradite the armed rebels to Iran. Otherwise Iran would act against the rebels and their supporting government based upon international norms."
  • Vladimir Putin in International Herald Tribune
    They didn't even sneeze, they didn't even think about extraditing them,Putin said, his voice simmering with anger. "They don't extradite anyone, including those who are suspected of terrorist activities. At the same time, they are putting...

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