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extradite

[ek-struh-dahyt] / ˈɛk strəˌdaɪt /


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One recalls the British detectives setting out the evidence they believed met the threshold for the Americans to extradite Bayoumi to face charges in the US.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Minnesota asked a federal judge to order Texas to extradite Castro to face the charges filed there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

Trying to prevent Fischer’s escape to Iceland, various agencies in the United States accelerated their pursuit of Bobby, putting more pressure on Japan to extradite him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Mexico long ago abolished capital punishment and typically extradites its citizens on the condition they are spared death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

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

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

He was extradited on an international arrest warrant.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Not long after Oxford’s confession, authorities tracked down Travis, who was in jail for an unrelated warrant in Boulder, Colorado, and had him extradited to Oklahoma.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

There were press reports that Bobby might be indicted and extradited back to the United States.

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

Det Supt Chris Doggart, from GMP, said Pakistani authorities detained him in 2017 and arrested him with the intention of extraditing him to the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

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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