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 o
An extradition document from the St. Louis Police Department in the United States, requesting the extradition of a murder suspect suspected of fleeing to Auckland in New Zealand, 1885
Swedish extradition of German and Baltic soldiers to the Soviet Union in January 1946
Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía being extradited to face charges in the United States
Viktor Bout extradited to the United States aboard a Drug Enforcement Administration plane
Charles Chi-tat Ng is a Hong Kong-born convicted serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States. He is believed to have raped, tortured, and murdered between eleven and twenty-five v
Extradition
…States to interfere in their sovereign right to manage justice within their own borders. Famous examples include the extradition dispute with Canada on Charles Ng, who was eventually extradited to the United States on murder charges. Countries with a rule of law typically make extradition subject to review by…
Ng in a 2018 prison photograph
FBI mugshot of Charles Ng in 1982