Terrorist Suspects Extradited to Face Charges in US
Bruno Vincent/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Having lost an eight-year battle to fight extradition, radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other suspected al Qaeda suspects were brought into two U.S. courtrooms on Saturday to hear charges on various t…
Why Did the Obama Admin. Deny Bolivia’s Extradition Request?
AIZAR RALDES/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) — On Friday, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced that the U.S. government was refusing to extradite former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who is facing formal charges of genocide.“A doc…
Ecuador Official: Decision on Assange Asylum Thursday
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images(QUITO, Ecuador) — Ecuadorean officials said Wednesday that they would announce their final decision on whether to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Thursday, but also claimed that the British government had th…
Julian Assange Seeks Asylum: Why Ecuador?
BERTIL ERICSON/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum in a London embassy Tuesday, hoping to dodge extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, some observers may have wondered why he chose to throw himself o…
WikiLeaks Founder Can Be Extradited to Sweden, UK High Court Rules
BERTIL ERICSON/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who bedeviled the U.S. government by publishing a massive trove of formerly classified Pentagon and State Department documents, can be extradited from England to Sweden to fac…
Joran Van Der Sloot’s Lawyer Says US Extradition Inevitable
Sebastian Silva/AFP/Getty Images(LIMA, Peru) — The extradition of Joran van der Sloot to the U.S. on charges of wire fraud and extortion in connection with the death of Natalee Holloway will likely take place this summer, his lawyer told ABC News Tues…
Former ‘Survivor’ Producer Extradited to Mexico in Wife’s Death
Photodisc/Digital Vision/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — The former Survivor producer charged with killing his wife during a vacation in Cancun has been extradited to Mexico to await his trial.Forty-year-old Bruce Beresford-Redman was released from a Los An…