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| Extradition Rights A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights. Category: Human Rights Strength: Significant Proposed by: Knootoss Description: The World Assembly, BELIEVING that all persons have the right to a fair trial; HAVING PREVIOUSLY ruled that Member States may not extradite a person to a jurisdiction where there is probable cause to believe they would be subjected to torture; HAVING FURTHER ruled that nations must facilitate the extradition of those suspected of certain severe crimes, subject to national and international law; ENTITLES all persons inside the jurisdiction of World Assembly Member States to a legal appeal in the nation from which extradition is requested; DECLARES that persons inside the jurisdiction of a World Assembly Member State may not be extradited to another World Assembly Member State, in the absence of a treaty governing the terms of extradition or a national law governing the terms of extradition to nations with whom no treaty has been established; FURTHER DECLARES that a legal appeal against extradition must also be accepted if any of the following are true: a) The nation requesting extradition cannot provide evidence that – unless rebutted – would be sufficient to prove the act for which extradition is sought; b) The act for which extradition is sought does not constitute a crime in the nation from which extradition is requested; c) The crime for which extradition is sought is of a political nature; d) The punishment for the crime for which extradition is sought would not be administered in the nation from which extradition is requested; e) The nation from which extradition is requested claims jurisdiction over the crime for which extradition is sought; CLARIFIES that the nation from which extradition is requested may also refuse to extradite for other reasons, insofar as such refusal does not contradict existing World Assembly resolutions; ENCOURAGES Member States to enact legislation which facilitates the prosecution of cross-border crime. |
| QUOTE (Belschaft @ Apr 11 2011, 10:12 AM) |
| Opposed, strongly. |
