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extradite

[ek-struh-dahyt] / ˈɛk strəˌdaɪt /


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In Greece, his dual citizenship complicates efforts by authorities to extradite him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Following Rocha Moya’s indictment, Washington demanded that Mexico arrest the governor and extradite him to the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But authorities there refused to extradite him and let him go, judging that any such Ukrainian attack would have been a legitimate act of war rather than a crime.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The decision to extradite him was made under an agreement between the two countries dating back to 1951.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It had also been a year since the governor of Pennsylvania had agreed to extradite Wes to his home state of Maryland to await trial.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

It would be a shame if the UK becomes a party to this travesty of justice and extradites Alexander back to Bucharest.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2018

He had been safe in Paris, because he had a French passport and France rarely extradites its own citizens.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016

No announcement has yet been made, and a Justice Department official said Monday that no decision had been reached on where Guzman would be sent once Mexico actually extradites him.

From US News ● Jan. 12, 2016

Mexico regularly extradites leading traffickers but the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto resisted handing over Guzman after his Feb. 2014 arrest as a point of national pride.

From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2016

Rubio said he hoped that the Mexican government extradites Guzman to the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2016

He was extradited to Ventura County in April 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The suspected head of one compound installed at the Live Hotel in the city was a Chinese national who was among those extradited to Beijing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Efforts to have Arif Patel extradited back to the UK failed and he remained a free man in Dubai.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

He said that while neighbourhood officers had been "extradited" in response to the major demands during the first half of this year, their numbers were still at an "incredibly low" level.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

He missed his friends on the Continent and Asia, but he didn’t dare leave his ocean-bound haven for fear that he might be captured and extradited.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Instead, he asked the Texas secretary of state to consider whether Castro was a fugitive, and he refused to reach a decision on extraditing him until that question was answered.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sheinbaum responded to the indictments by requesting the US provide "irrefutable" evidence against Rocha Moya before potentially extraditing him.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Romanian criminologist Vlad Zaha told BBC News that there was little-to-no chance of the US extraditing Jibril, and described the sentence as "unusually harsh".

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Bovey argued that extraditing Rossi would be a “flagrant breach” of his human rights.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

It was, however, only when the alleged crime was recent and followed up promptly that the rigid rule of extraditing slaves accused of crime was applied.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various


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