Dutch prosecutors on Monday accused Russia of allowing a suspect in the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet to return to rebel-held eastern Ukraine in defiance of an extradition agreement.
Read moreAn EU magistrate dealt Spain a blow Tuesday in its efforts to imprison the rapper Valtonyc, who fled the country after his lyrics were ruled to glorify terrorism.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who’s being held in a maximum-security prison in London while fighting extradition to the United States, is in such poor physical and mental health that he could die in prison, a group of doctors is warning.
Read moreA federal judge will grant a hearing to the former Peruvian president accused of accepting bribes to determine whether the leader is being subjected to conditions akin to solitary confinement as he awaits extradition proceedings in a San Francisco Bay Area jail.
Read moreSwedish prosecutors on Tuesday said they are dropping a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who could face extradition to the United States for his involvement in exposing alleged war crimes committed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read moreA Spanish National Court official confirmed Monday that a former Venezuelan spymaster accused of attempting to “flood” the United States with drugs remains missing since an order for his arrest pending extradition was issued this month.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco said Wednesday he is inclined to keep an ex-Peruvian president in jail pending resolution of his extradition case after the man was removed from solitary confinement, but may want to hear more testimony on issue.
Read moreAbdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 34, a naturalized Canadian citizen born in Somalia, was extradited to San Diego and charged Friday with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists in Syria.
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Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday withdrew an unpopular extradition bill that sparked months of chaotic protests that have morphed into a campaign for greater democratic change.
Read moreWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a U.K. court Monday to fight extradition to the United States on espionage charges, and he lost a bid to delay proceedings so that his legal team would have more time to prepare his case.
Read moreEight people were killed in gun battles in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan, Mexico, in what Mexican officials described Friday as a failed operation to arrest the son of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Read moreA former head of state facing extradition to Peru on corruption charges will be released from jail on house arrest by the end of October unless the U.S. government stops holding him in solitary confinement, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge signaled Wednesday he will likely release a former Peruvian president on bond pending his extradition case unless the federal government stops keeping him in solitary confinement.
Read moreLawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou denied the Canadian government’s claim Tuesday that discovery requests on the telecom executive’s detention and arrest amount to a “fishing expedition.”
Read moreLawyers for embattled Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou returned to a Vancouver courtroom Monday in a drawn-out legal battle over her potential extradition to the United States, claiming again that Canadian law enforcement botched the telecom executive’s arrest at an airport in December 2018.
Read moreA former Peruvian president will remain in jail pending resolution of his extradition case, a federal judge ruled Thursday, despite a psychiatrist’s warning that his mental state is deteriorating as he stays locked in solitary confinement.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that the decision to withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory was her government’s own initiative to break the impasse — not Beijing’s directive.
Read moreGlobal stocks rose Wednesday as Hong Kong’s government withdrew a proposed extradition law that sparked three months of protests in the Chinese territory.
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An extradition bill that triggered three months of unprecedented pro-democracy rallies in Hong Kong will be withdrawn, the city’s leader announced Wednesday, bowing to one of the protesters’ five key demands.
Read moreLamenting a “stark choice” of keeping a former Peruvian president in solitary confinement or releasing him from jail, a federal judge in San Francisco asked federal prosecutors Thursday to look for alternatives.
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