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extradition

[ek-struh-dish-uhn] / ˌɛk strəˈdɪʃ ən /


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Police in Pula, Croatia on Wednesday arrested Volodymyr Zhuravlyov under a European arrest warrant put out by Germany, which is seeking his extradition.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Lebanon has handed Syria a former general who served under the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, in the first extradition of its kind since his government fell.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Abbott’s office said the governor wouldn’t comment on pending extradition, and the Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

According to Sheinbaum, U.S. authorities have not provided their Mexican counterparts with sufficient evidence to warrant the governor’s detention or extradition to the United States.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Most important, he had no intention of leaving Iceland, because of the threat of extradition to the United States.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

And investigators were able to obtain warrants and extraditions "in record time" because of the awareness - the podcast hit Number 24 on the iTunes chart.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

These are not extraditions, because these folks are not being sought by El Salvador on any charges there, and certainly have not gone through any extradition process.

From Slate Apr. 8, 2025

But Swedish courts have blocked other extraditions, and Swedish officials have said that they cannot override their country’s free-speech protections.

From New York Times Jul. 10, 2023

Months later, the British government enacted policies that “made similar extraditions extremely difficult,” according to the Nelson Hackett Project, a digital work of public scholarship helmed by the University of Arkansas Humanities Center.

From Seattle Times Jun. 17, 2023

A Paris court also had ruled against their extraditions, and the decision was appealed last year.

From Washington Times Mar. 28, 2023




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