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The answer, apparently, was by fleeing to a country with no extradition treaty with the United States: The former CIA employee and NSA contractor is currently hiding out in Hong Kong.
The term surrender of fugitive offenders agreement is used in place of extradition treaty to signify Hong Kong's non-sovereign status. [1] As a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China since July 1997, Hong Kong is authorised by the Central Government of China to enter into such agreements, according to Article 96 of the ...
This list of United States extradition treaties includes 116 countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first U.S. extradition treaty was with Ecuador , in force from 1873. [ 3 ] The most recent U.S. extradition treaty is with Croatia , in force from 2022.
No country in the world has an extradition treaty with all other countries; for example, the United States lacks extradition treaties with China, Russia, Namibia, the United Arab Emirates, North Korea, Bahrain, and many other countries. [3] There are two types of extradition treaties: list and dual criminality treaties.
Extraterritorial abduction, also known as international abduction, is the practice of one country abducting someone from another country's territory outside the legal process of extradition. Extraordinary rendition is a form of extraterritorial abduction involving transfer to a third country.
Does anyone have a list of non-extradition countries for common english-speaking countries? It would add to the article. I havn't been able to find any decent information. --ChrisRuvolo 19:46, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) Added by Soren Harward Mon 15 Nov 2004: I found a couple of old links thanks to a 2-year-old Google Answers question:
Throughout the twentieth century, world events forced governments to examine the concept of the political offence exception more closely, first in the 1920s and 1930s as clashing fascists and communists used methods that could be described in modern parlance as terrorism to promote their respective political aims, then after World War II as both war criminals and collaborators with occupation ...
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