Tag Archives: Extradition

Ian Bailey

This morning.

Ian Bailey arrives at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.

The French authorities are attempting, for the second time, to have Mr Bailey extradited to France, to face trial over the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier west Cork, in 1996.

Mr Bailey has always denied any involvement in her death.

Yesterday, Mr Bailey’s lawyers told the High Court that the question of Mr Bailey’s extradition to France had already been decided by the Supreme Court in 2012 and that the second attempt was an abuse of process.

The case continues today.

Leah Farrell/Rollingnews

Alexander Barankov sits, today, in a Quito jail awaiting extradition to Belarus.

Having angered the Belarussian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko (current darling of the Equadorian economy) the blogger finds himself in a rather worse pickle than Julian Assange.

“Far from the world’s attention, the (Ecuadorian) government is evicting an ex-government worker from Belarus who has enjoyed three years of asylum status in Ecuador. The reason is that six weeks ago, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko was in Quito to sign a number of trade agreements and applied pressure. A short time later the man, Alexander Barankov, was arrested in Quito. Against this background, the flowery words of Ecuador’s foreign minister about the huge importance of political asylum don’t hold much value.”

Assange Case Exposes ‘International Hypocrisy’ (Spiegel Online)

Democratic Underground

(Hat tip @soundmigration)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL8OAQkW_d4

“Why are you personally supporting the extradition of British citizen Richard O’Dwyer for solely linking to copyright-infringing works using an extradition treaty designed to combat terrorism and to bring terrorists to judgment in the USA?” Mozart asked.

The president replied: “I’m not personally doing anything; I want to make sure everybody understands. One of the ways our system works is that the president doesn’t get involved with prosecution decisions or extradition decisions and this has been a decision by the justice department.”

Obama spoke in greater depth on the contentious issue of internet piracy and copyright law, saying his administration was trying to “make sure that intellectual property is protected; we want to make sure that the creative works of people in this country aren’t expropriated but we want to do it in a way that’s consistent with internet freedom”.

O’Dwyer’s mother, Julia, said Obama had given a “typical politician’s response” but she was glad the question had been asked because it drew attention to the case.

 

Barack Obama Faces Pressure Over TVShack Extradition Case (Guardian)