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Comment by ok_dad

4 months ago

China probably can’t get the USA to extradite an American citizen for breaking a Chinese law. The UK can.

The UK can't even get the USA to extradite an American woman who was driving on the wrong side of the road and killed a child.

The US-USA extradition treaties have always been one way.

Are there any examples in history of the US extraditing someone with no UK ties to the UK?

  • If you commit a crime in the UK then I would expect extradition to be a genuine risk.

    It's a connected world, so online activities are probably pretty grey-areas. If you defraud someone (for example) but they're in another country, where did the crime happen?

Yeah that makes sense.

I thought extradition laws usually had some kind of clause like "only applies if it'd be a crime in both jurisdictions", but now I think about that I can't remember where I heard that or why I think it so I will admit complete ignorance.