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Extradition is the legal process by which one country requests that another country surrender a person accused or convicted of a crime so they can face trial or punishment. It matters because it enables law enforcement across borders to pursue suspects who flee to other countries to escape justice.
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- Extradition treaties or agreements
- Restrictions
- Exemptions in the European Union
- Extradition to federations
- Bars to extradition
- Failure to fulfill dual criminality
- Political nature of the alleged crime
- Possibility of certain forms of punishment
- Jurisdiction
- Own citizens
- Right to private and family life
- Suicide risk
- Fair trial standards
- Human rights and extradition
- ''Aut dedere aut judicare''
- Controversies
- International tensions
- Extradition case of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
- 2019 Hong Kong extradition law protests
- Abductions
- "Extraordinary rendition"
- Uyghur extradition
- See also
- Footnotes
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thumb|380x380px|An extradition document from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department|St. Louis Police Department in the [[United States, requesting the extradition of a murder suspect suspected of fleeing to Auckland in New Zealand, 1885]]
Extradition is the formal legal process by which one jurisdiction surrenders a person accused or convicted of a crime to another jurisdiction where the crime occurred for the purposes of prosecution or punishment. It is a cooperative law enforcement procedure between the two jurisdictions, and depends on the arrangements made between them. In addition to legal aspects of the process, extradition also involves the physical transfer of custody of the person being extradited to the legal authority of the requesting jurisdiction.