extradition

Forty years after the kidnapping, torture, and brutal murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, one of the men responsible for his death finally did a perp walk as he got out of a plane into the waiting hands of U.S. agents. The criminal spent decades in Mexico under the protection of top government officials.

In an apparent attempt to appease U.S. officials who have been pushing for tariffs and punitive measures against Mexico for their alleged role in protecting drug cartels, that country’s authorities confirmed the extradition of 29 criminals wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice. These include a top drug boss behind the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the two supreme leaders of Los Zetas Cartel, and the brother of the supreme leader of Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro announced on Tuesday that the Central American nation will continue to honor an over 110-year-old extradition treaty with the United States — reversing her 2024 decision to break the agreement during the administration of former U.S. President Joe Biden.

Mexican federal prosecutors have requested the extradition of a convicted drug lord, turned protected witness, following his recent re-arrest on new drug charges. Among the charges that Mexico is trying to prosecute the drug lord for is his role as one of the masterminds in the murder of famed Mexican journalist and author Javier Valdez.

The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported a Lebanese professor of sociology named Dr. Hassan Diab, convicted by a French court of involvement in a 1980 bombing that killed four people at a synagogue in Paris, is teaching a course on “social justice in action” at Carleton University in Ottawa.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he “pled guilty to journalism.”

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted the right to appeal his extradition to the United States by London’s High Court on Monday

A UK court said Julian Assange can’t immediately be extradited to the U.S. on espionage charges, a partial victory for the WikiLeaks founder.

A man suspected of brutally murdering his girlfriend before fleeing to Africa has been arrested in Kenya, law enforcement officials say.

A Chinese national allegedly “drunk driving” a Porsche at more than 100 mph has fled the U.S. after causing a fatal crash.

Belgium’s justice minister resigned after it was found that Tunisia was seeking the extradition of an Islamic extremist before he killed two in Brussels.

The case of who killed 18-year-old Natalee Holloway during her 2005 vacation in Aruba has finally been solved, with convicted murderer Joran Van der Sloot confessing to the slaying on Wednesday.

Mexican authorities moved Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman out of a maximum security prison for extradition to the United States. Guzman is the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. 

A group of Australian lawmakers will travel to the United States to lobby against its efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

A Mexican federal judge ordered the release of a cartel-connected border-state former governor fighting extradition to the U.S. where he is wanted on money laundering charges.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who decamped to Florida soon after his narrow election loss to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the end of October, has applied for a six-month tourist visa to remain in the United States.

The Turkish government has demanded both Finland and Sweden extradite 130 alleged terrorists as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes new demands for approval of NATO membership. Turkish President Erdogan spoke on Sunday, saying that Finland and Sweden must deport 130

Chinese agents have established clandestine overseas policing “service stations” across Europe and the UK to control its ex-pat populations.

Turkey Demands Finland Help Prosecute Resident Who Insulted Erdogan

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to the U.S., where he faces up to 175 years in prison.

Beijing has recently ramped up its use of established extradition treaties with Central Asian nations to target Chinese-origin Uyghurs and transport them back to China to face criminal proceedings for alleged offenses, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on Monday.

A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges.

New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down a landmark ruling that would allow the government to export an accused murderer to Communist China for trial.

A man wanted by Swedish police in connection with a gang-linked murder in Stockholm in September 2020 has been located and arrested in Lebanon.

Several suspects in murder cases in a Swedish county have fled to Iraq to avoid arrest and possible prosecution.  

The Chinese Communist Party forcibly repatriated 1,114 Chinese nationals in 2021 through a state-run program called Skynet according to the findings of a report published by the human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders on Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) – U.S. authorities launched a new battle on Wednesday to make Julian Assange face American justice, telling British judges that if they agree to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve any U.S. prison sentence he receives in his native Australia.

The Venezuelan government on Saturday cut off negotiations with both the United States and the Venezuelan opposition after businessman Alex Saab, a close ally of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, was extradited to the U.S. to face money laundering charges.

A prominent rights campaigner said Britain had warned him and others to avoid travel to countries with extradition agreements with China.

(AFP) — Supporters of a Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the only known suspect in a 1980 Paris bombing urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday not to allow him to be extradited a second time, as France’s top court weighs in on the case.

LONDON (AP) – A British judge on Wednesday denied bail to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who has been jailed in Britain since 2019 as he fights extradition to the United States. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ordered Assange to remain in

Turkey issued hundreds of new detention warrants this week for alleged followers of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, portrayed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the mastermind of the failed 2016 coup attempt against him.

BERLIN (AP) — China has condemned Germany’s decision to suspend its extradition agreement with Hong Kong, accusing Berlin of a “serious breach of international law.”

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that the United Kingdom is formally ending the extradition treaty between the UK and Hong Kong, as well as hinting that the UK may impose sanctions over the mass internment of Uyghur Muslims in concentration

Canadian Justice Heather Holmes of the British Columbia Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against a request by Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to have her extradition case thrown out.

A British judge delayed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s full extradition hearing, which had been due to begin next month.