Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by zaarn on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:34AM
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Generally a country will only extradite you if the crime alleged is also a crime in that country. Some countries also stipulate that the punishment must not be severely stronger than in the current country.
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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by makomk on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @02:33PM
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Generally that's the case. However, Sweden was trying to extradite him under a European Arrest Warrant which has no such requirement for the offence to be a crime in the country being extradited from and has much weaker safeguards in general. (This has caused some problems over the years.)