Four French MPs are pushing for Julian Assange to be offered asylum in France amid the WikiLeaks founder’s ongoing fight against extradition from the UK to the US.
Jennifer De Temmerman, Jean Lassalle, Cedric Villani and Francois Ruffin are due to speak at a press conference in Paris on 1 February where they will explain why Assange -- currently in prison in the UK -- should be given sanctuary in France.
Assange’s defence team announced in February 2020 that it would be seeking asylum for him in France, ahead of the hearing in the UK on whether the 50-year-old should be extradited to the US for trial.
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Showing posts with label Extradiction. Show all posts
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2/1/22
2/17/19
Germany: Extradition of Citizens to Britain after Brexit will stop
Germany to stop extradition of citizens to UK after Brexit
4/7/18
Spain - Swiss relations : Tit for Tat - Banking Industry: HSBC whistleblower held in Swiss-Spanish extradition saga
Whistleblower Herve Falciani, a former HSBC employee who exposed massive
tax evasion via Swiss accounts, was Wednesday arrested in Spain but
released again on Thursday. Falciani had fled to Spain to avoid jail in
Switzerland. The arrest of the whistleblower comes at a sensitive time
in Swiss-Spanish relations when Swiss courts are considering a Spanish
extradition request for Catalan separatist Marta Rovira, who fled to
Switzerland earlier this year.
Read more: HSBC whistleblower held in Swiss-Spanish extradition saga
Read more: HSBC whistleblower held in Swiss-Spanish extradition saga
4/5/18
Catalonia rebellion: German court grants bail to Carles Puigdemont as extradition on corruption charge considered
The state court in Schleswig ruled on Thursday there was no reason to
believe that Catalonia's former leader Carles Puigdemont risked
persecution in Spain. It set bail at €75,000 ($92,000).
It ruled that the main charge of rebellion in the Spanish case against him could not be used as the comparable German charge of treason specifies violence.
The court is to consider his extradition on the basis of misuse of public funds.
The former Catalan separatist leader was detained in Germany when he was driving back from Finland through Denmark on his way to Belgium where he has been living after being charged by the Spanish authorities with rebellion and misuse of public funds in last year's independence referendum.
The Schleswig court considered him to be less of a flight risk because he is being considered for the corruption, not rebellion, charges.
Read more: German court grants bail to Carles Puigdemont as extradition on corruption charge considered | Breaking News | DW | 05.04.2018
It ruled that the main charge of rebellion in the Spanish case against him could not be used as the comparable German charge of treason specifies violence.
The court is to consider his extradition on the basis of misuse of public funds.
The former Catalan separatist leader was detained in Germany when he was driving back from Finland through Denmark on his way to Belgium where he has been living after being charged by the Spanish authorities with rebellion and misuse of public funds in last year's independence referendum.
The Schleswig court considered him to be less of a flight risk because he is being considered for the corruption, not rebellion, charges.
Read more: German court grants bail to Carles Puigdemont as extradition on corruption charge considered | Breaking News | DW | 05.04.2018
2/25/18
Czech Republic: Turkey wants Kurdish leader extradited after Prague arrest -
urkey's government wants the Czech Republic to extradite a Syrian
Kurdish leader detained on its orders this weekend so that he can face
terror charges, a top official said on Sunday.
Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), is wanted over a February 2016 bombing in Ankara that killed 29 people. Turkish authorities blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which for over three decades has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state.
"Our wish is that he is extradited," Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said after the arrest in the Czech capital, noting that both Turkey and the Czech Republic were parties to the European Convention on Extradition.
He said that three Turkish offices of state - the foreign ministry, the interior ministry and the justice ministry -- would be working with the Czech authorities to bring this about.
Mr Bozdag confirmed that Mr Muslim had been detained earlier this weekend at a Prague hotel at Ankara's request, describing him as the "head of a terror group".
Turkey sees the YPG and PYD as the Syrian branch of the PKK, which is banned by Turkey, the United States and the European Union as a terror group.
Read more: Turkey wants Kurdish leader extradited after Prague arrest - The National
Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), is wanted over a February 2016 bombing in Ankara that killed 29 people. Turkish authorities blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which for over three decades has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state.
"Our wish is that he is extradited," Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said after the arrest in the Czech capital, noting that both Turkey and the Czech Republic were parties to the European Convention on Extradition.
He said that three Turkish offices of state - the foreign ministry, the interior ministry and the justice ministry -- would be working with the Czech authorities to bring this about.
Mr Bozdag confirmed that Mr Muslim had been detained earlier this weekend at a Prague hotel at Ankara's request, describing him as the "head of a terror group".
Turkey sees the YPG and PYD as the Syrian branch of the PKK, which is banned by Turkey, the United States and the European Union as a terror group.
Read more: Turkey wants Kurdish leader extradited after Prague arrest - The National
1/22/18
USA: Green Card Holders Beware: ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years
Niec received a temporary green card and, in 1989, became a lawful
permanent resident. He grew up in Michigan, went to medical school,
became a doctor, and raised a daughter and stepdaughter.
Niec, now 43, never fathomed that his legal status in the United States would become an issue. With a renewed green card, and nearly 40 years in the country, his Polish nationality was an afterthought for Niec, his sister told The Washington Post. He doesn’t even speak Polish.
But on Tuesday morning, immigration authorities arrested Niec at his home, just after he had sent his 12-year-old stepdaughter off to school. Niec, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been detained in a county jail ever since, awaiting a bond hearing and possible deportation.
“It’s shocking,” said his sister, a corporate lawyer named Iwona Niec Villaire. “No one can really understand what happened here.”
According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100. In April of that year, he was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property over $100 and a financial transaction device.
Because Niec was convicted of two crimes involving “moral turpitude,” stemming from two separate incidents, he is subject to removal, immigration authorities wrote in the notice to appear, citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Both of the offenses took place when he was a teenager.He associated himself “with some bad people” his sister said. The first of the incidents involved an altercation with a driver after a car crash, Niec’s sister said. He was one of multiple teenagers in the car at the time.
The second of those convictions was eventually expunged from his criminal record, his sister said, as part of a guilty plea through Michigan’s Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a program intended to help young offenders avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction.
But even though the crime was scrubbed off his public record, it can still be used against him for removal from the country, his sister said.
Read more: ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years
Niec, now 43, never fathomed that his legal status in the United States would become an issue. With a renewed green card, and nearly 40 years in the country, his Polish nationality was an afterthought for Niec, his sister told The Washington Post. He doesn’t even speak Polish.
But on Tuesday morning, immigration authorities arrested Niec at his home, just after he had sent his 12-year-old stepdaughter off to school. Niec, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been detained in a county jail ever since, awaiting a bond hearing and possible deportation.
“It’s shocking,” said his sister, a corporate lawyer named Iwona Niec Villaire. “No one can really understand what happened here.”
According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100. In April of that year, he was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property over $100 and a financial transaction device.
Because Niec was convicted of two crimes involving “moral turpitude,” stemming from two separate incidents, he is subject to removal, immigration authorities wrote in the notice to appear, citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Both of the offenses took place when he was a teenager.He associated himself “with some bad people” his sister said. The first of the incidents involved an altercation with a driver after a car crash, Niec’s sister said. He was one of multiple teenagers in the car at the time.
The second of those convictions was eventually expunged from his criminal record, his sister said, as part of a guilty plea through Michigan’s Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a program intended to help young offenders avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction.
But even though the crime was scrubbed off his public record, it can still be used against him for removal from the country, his sister said.
Read more: ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years
6/23/13
NSA PRISM SPY PROGRAM: Wistleblower Snowden arrives at Moscow airport
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| Edward Snowden |
Earlier, a spokesperson from the Hong Kong government confirmed that Edward Snowden had "legally and voluntarily" left the country.
“Mr. Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel,” said the Hong Kong government in a press release. The statement also said the documents for Snowden’s extradition submitted by Washington “did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.”
“As the HKSAR Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for a provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr. Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.”
It is not clear yet if Mr. Snowdon will remain in Europe or to which other third country he will be going.
EU-Digest
6/20/12
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces arrest, seeks asylum at Ecuador embassy
British police stood poised Wednesday to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should he step out of Ecuador's London embassy — but authorities conceded he is beyond their grasp as long as he stays inside.
Assange, who faces questioning about alleged sex crimes in Sweden, says he is seeking political asylum at the South American nation's diplomatic mission.
Police said that he had violated the terms of his bail, which include an overnight curfew, and "is now subject to arrest." Police officers were stationed outside the Edwardian apartment block in the tony Knightsbridge district that houses the embassy, along with a small group of pro-Assange protesters waving "Free Assange" placards.
Read more: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces arrest, seeks asylum at Ecuador embassy
Assange, who faces questioning about alleged sex crimes in Sweden, says he is seeking political asylum at the South American nation's diplomatic mission.
Police said that he had violated the terms of his bail, which include an overnight curfew, and "is now subject to arrest." Police officers were stationed outside the Edwardian apartment block in the tony Knightsbridge district that houses the embassy, along with a small group of pro-Assange protesters waving "Free Assange" placards.
Read more: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces arrest, seeks asylum at Ecuador embassy
10/24/09
Monsters and Critics: EU will not extradite suspects who face death penalty in US
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EU will not extradite suspects who face death penalty in US
The European Union on Friday finalized an extradition deal with the United States that excludes suspects who may face the death penalty across the Atlantic. 'Extradition to the US will henceforth only be possible under the condition that the death penalty will not be imposed or, if for procedural reasons such a condition cannot be complied with, that the death penalty will not be carried out,' EU ministers said in a statement.
3/4/07
swissinfo - Italy still wants justice from U.S. for Iraq shooting - Philip Pullella
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Italy still wants justice from U.S. for Iraq shooting - Philip Pullella
Italy has raised the stakes in a spat with the United States over the killing by a U.S. soldier of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, saying Washington must set things right by assuming responsibility for the death. Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema openly challenged the United States at a weekend commemoration of Nicola Calipari, the agent killed on March 4, 2005 at a U.S. military checkpoint near Baghdad airport.
His speech made headlines such as that in Sunday's La Repubblica newspaper of Rome: "D'Alema accuses the United States over the Calipari case." Calipari became a national hero for securing freedom for kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. He died shielding her from gunfire at the checkpoint just after her release. A Rome judge last month ordered the U.S. soldier to stand trial for the killing but Washington has refused to hand him over and considers the case closed.
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