Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
by Scoundreller on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:11AM
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Lots of misrepresentation going on here. An extradition treaty merely facilitates things. You can have protections despite a treaty (e.g. France for its own citizens, ever!) and you could still be extradited if there isn’t one (there just isn’t an agreed upon mechanism for how to do it).
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Before someone assumes this is a dirty European protectionist trick, the US do not extradite their citizens either.
Yeah I think that's a pretty common thing to do. Outside of US and some EU countries, I know Carlos Ghosn is famously hiding in Lebanon where he is a citizen.
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
by boeingUH60 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:58AM
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No, they (rarely) do
Here’s a recent example - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56248558
You’re right, every treaty is a different beast and there are no absolutes. But the general principle is Further, 18 U.S.C. 3181 and 3184 permit the United States to extradite, without regard to the existence of a treaty, persons (other than citizens, nationals or permanent residents of the United States), who have committed crimes of violence against nationals of the United States in foreign countries.
https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-15000-international-extradit...
If the applicable treaty or convention does not obligate the United States to extradite its citizens to a foreign country, the Secretary of State may, nevertheless, order the surrender to that country of a United States citizen whose extradition has been requested by that country if the other requirements of that treaty or convention are met.
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
by Scoundreller on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:29PM
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Those seem to be the mechanisms to extradite in the absence of a treaty. No point in having laws about treaties because ratified treaties trump the law (is my understanding).
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
by jcranberry on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:56AM
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Does any country extradite their own citizens?
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
by Scoundreller on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:30PM
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Most do/will. Unless you have an ironclad constitutional protection against it, there’s an extradition risk for citizens in their own country.