It says that safeguards, such as no extraditions for political offenses and veto power over any court-approved extraditions by the chief executive, will prevent abuses.
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How do extraditions from Canada to the United States work?
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International extraditions, even from close partners and allies, are always complicated.
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"Those extraditions marked a before and an after," Mr. Cepeda continued.
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There were 79 extraditions in 2016, up from 54 three years earlier.
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The Department of Justice said the agency does not comment on extraditions.
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Areas of special treatment include visas, law enforcement, including extraditions, and investment.
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Requests for arrests and extraditions should be responded to quickly and fairly.
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A Burundi government spokeman said he had no information on the extraditions.
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The letter referred, specifically, to several extraditions that Ahmad was involved in.
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Lam's suspension of the bill, which would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Mexico appeared to speed up extraditions soon after Mr. Barr's December visit.
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It raised concerns about the closure of Al Jazeera, citizenship rights and extraditions.
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"Extraditions are often used as leverage points, or bargaining chips," Edmonds-Poli said.
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Two extraditions are still pending and three fugitives are still on the loose.
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The story raised concerns about the closure of Al Jazeera, citizenship rights and extraditions.
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The result has been a number of high-profile extraditions and convictions for hacking.
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The Hong Kong protests began over a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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The Hong Kong protests began over a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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It has also said no extraditions can take place for crimes that carry the death penalty.
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Hong Kong's government insists that adequate measures are in place to guard against politically motivated extraditions.
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Those areas of special treatment for Hong Kong include visas, law enforcement including extraditions, and investment.
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The proposed bill would allow extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China, which lacks human rights protections.
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Allies sought assurances that run-of-the-mill criminal extraditions would not see suspects sent to Guantánamo.
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And they have pushed to change the current, colonial-era law that specifically bars extraditions to China.
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The problem, at least for the requesting state, is that extraditions are not fool-proof or fast.
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The protests began over a government proposal, since suspended, that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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The bill would also require Hong Kong to extradite suspects to jurisdictions it lacks extraditions agreements with.
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Hong Kong's government has said its proposed law is not aimed specifically at facilitating extraditions to mainland China.
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Protesters have been rallying since June against a suspended bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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Better to press the central government, or threaten case-by-case scrutiny of American extraditions to Hong Kong.
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But the scandal has rumbled on, with regular announcements of new probes, extraditions and punishments of tainted officials.
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Prosecutors conceded that prosecutions are unlikely, given that the named hackers are Chinese residents and extraditions are rare.
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Mr. Uribe said he feared that the court might block the extraditions if they did not act hurriedly.
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The letter goes on to describe an invasive investigation process, including subpoenas, extraditions, private detectives, and financial paralysis.
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Normally extraditions to the United States are not much of an issue in Canada and are mostly granted.
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The protests began over legislation, since withdrawn, that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China from Hong Kong.
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In announcing her decision to withdraw a contentious bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, Mrs.
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These are steps that U.S. authorities typically follow in seeking arrests and extraditions of individuals in foreign countries.
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The number of extraditions from Mexico to the United States rose from four in 1995 to 115 in 2012.
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Demonstrations in Hong Kong started eight weeks ago against a proposed legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Lam has said the courts would provide human rights safeguards in vetting case-by-case extraditions to mainland China.
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TransCor stopped performing extraditions in 2008 because of liability and cost concerns, but still moves prisoners between C.C.A. locations.
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Christianity has had a striking influence in demonstrations against a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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The legislation would allow case-based extraditions to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong does not have long-term agreements.
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But the legislation would also allow extraditions to mainland China for the first time, with few avenues for appeal.
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The protesters started campaigning in June against a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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The bill, originally proposed in February, would allow extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China, which lacks human rights protections.
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Demonstrators are demanding the withdrawal of a proposed Hong Kong government bill that would allow criminal extraditions to mainland China.
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People in Hong Kong who worry about extraditions to a legal system so lacking in due process have company elsewhere.
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Earlier this month thousands of Hong Kong residents began marching against a bill that would allow extraditions to the mainland.
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Opponents see the measure, which would allow extraditions to mainland China, as accelerating the erosion of Hong Kong's civil liberties.
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His family appears to have gotten its start in the prisoner transport industry at a company called Statewide Prisoner Extraditions.
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Hong Kong has plunged into chaos over a controversial bill that would allow extraditions from the city to mainland China.
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The protests, which kicked off over the weekend, were aimed at stopping a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets since Sunday, protesting a proposed government law to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Why it matters: Hong Kong currently limits extraditions to mainland China due to concerns about the country's record on human rights.
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The areas of special treatment for Hong Kong are fairly broad and now include visas, law enforcement including extraditions, and investment.
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The bill would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, despite Hong Kong having an independent judiciary dating back to British rule.
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HONG KONG — Minnie Li understands what is at stake with the contentious Hong Kong bill that would allow extraditions to China.
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He also responded to Panamanian users' tweets about the demonstrations, which began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to China.
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It said on its website last month that any legal change to allow extraditions "is an internal affair" of the local government.
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Perhaps to avoid focusing on potentially controversial extraditions to the mainland, Hong Kong's government justifies the legal change in a roundabout way.
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Hong Kong has indefinitely suspended a bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China after massive street protests against the proposal.
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Now 22, Wong was most recently released from prison on June 17 as anti-extraditions protests in the city began to intensify.
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Colombia extraditions to the United States were half as frequent in 2015 — 109 — as the year the paramilitary leaders were sent away.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by months of sometimes violent unrest, prompted by anger over planned legislation to allow extraditions to China.
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But the latest political unrest, fuelled by anger over planned legislation to allow extraditions to China, is weakening already faltering trade winds.
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The bill would have allowed extraditions from the former British colony to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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From his North Dakota jail cell, Willocks told me he doesn't buy the argument that extraditions will put a damper on scamming.
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The corruption scandal has since rumbled on, however, with announcements of new probes, extraditions and punishments of tainted officials a near-daily occurrence.
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Paiboon conceded that there were significant legal and diplomatic challenges around seeking the extraditions but said he would proceed with the requests regardless.
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The government has said it needs the bill's broad authorization for extraditions to keep the city from becoming a haven for criminal suspects.
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When Waterford mentions, midway through the visit, that Canada is considering "extraditions" of individuals wanted by the Gilead government, the implications are chilling.
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The bill, which would have allowed extraditions to the mainland, has since been suspended but has not been formally withdrawn from legislative agendas.
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She was earlier criticized for insisting on pushing through a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China despite an intense public outcry.
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For now, the hope is that the recent wave of extraditions to North Dakota will strike fear into the hearts of other scammers.
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A proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China and other jurisdictions triggered large-scale protests in Hong Kong in the last few weeks.
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The president's office said that the administration's fight against drug traffickers has resulted in 14 extraditions and the destruction of 150 clandestine landing strips.
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Context: Huge crowds of demonstrators have taken to Hong Kong's streets for weeks to protest a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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In a remarkable reversal, Hong Kong's leader backed down after huge protests and suspended a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China and other places.
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In the face of mass demonstrations in Hong Kong against a plan to allow extraditions to mainland China, Beijing appears to be hunkering down.
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Dozens of people said they were injured by the police during the demonstration against a contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Demonstrators fear the bill, which would allow extraditions to the mainland and could expose them to China's opaque legal system, will simply be reintroduced.
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Mr. Yiu said he had friends in Hong Kong marching for democracy and against a bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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The bill would have allowed for case-by-case extraditions to countries that lack formal extradition treaties with Hong Kong, most notably mainland China.
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The proposed changes provide for case-by-case extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.
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It's not immediately known if the Nigerian nationals will be extradited to the U.S.; however, a treaty exists between the two nations, making extraditions possible.
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The amendments seek to simplify case-by-case extraditions to jurisdictions, including mainland China, beyond the 20 with which Hong Kong already has extradition treaties.
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China denies interfering in Hong Kong and has warned that the protests over a proposed law allowing extraditions to mainland China were an "undisguised challenge".
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Prosecutors are obliged to ask permission to use this evidence, and, as with extraditions, these are not negotiations that can be conducted by e-mail.
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The protests, which began in June over a since-withdrawn proposal that would allow extraditions to mainland China, have entered a period of relative calm.
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The proposed changes provide for case-by-case extraditions to jurisdictions, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.
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But Taiwan has said that it would not accept extraditions under the proposed changes and Lam acknowledged that was also a key factor in the suspension.
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These are the issues they're calling attention to: Hong Kong's protests were sparked in June by a proposed bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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The demonstrations began with demands for the government to scrap a controversial bill — which the government suspended under pressure from protesters — allowing extraditions to the mainland.
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Protests in the city initially focused on the need to stop extraditions to the mainland; but the movement has broadened, and recent rallies have turned violent.
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The protests began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to the mainland for trial in Communist-controlled courts, but have widened to highlight other grievances.
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Many successful terrorism prosecutions in recent years, moreover, have followed extraditions that would not have occurred if Guantánamo and its military commissions had remained an option.
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He told Reuters that the European Arrest Warrant system had removed exceptions previously made for extraditions to face "political" charges like sedition in other EU states.
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But the Mexican judicial system has a lengthy and winding process for challenging extraditions, and Guzmán's defense lawyer has also reportedly promised a "tough" legal fight.
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Snapshot: Above, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to protest a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Related: Two members of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing establishment said today that the extraditions bill should be delayed, appearing to break ranks with the territory's leader.
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Demonstrations this week over a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China have produced some of the city's biggest shows of dissent in years.
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HONG KONG — Backpedaling under mounting pressure, Hong Kong's top leader publicly apologized on Tuesday for having proposed contentious legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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The wave of protests sweeping Hong Kong began in early June and has targeted draft legislation, since shelved, that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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A spokesman for Mr. Erdogan, Ibrahim Kalin, said later that the arrests and extraditions had been handled legally and that Turkey intended to carry out more.
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Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that a controversial bill allowing extraditions to the mainland was dead, calling the government's work to amend the law a total failure.
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Hong Kong's top official caved in to pressure on Saturday, announcing that a contentious proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China has been indefinitely put on hold.
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Two of the demonstrations have involved more than a million people demanding the withdrawal of a bill that would allow extraditions from the city to mainland China.
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The Hong Kong government has asked the city's Legislative Council to approve extraditions to countries and regions with which it has no such agreements, including mainland China.
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Many protesters, even those who are not religious, have embraced the teachings and messages of Christianity to denounce a proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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The territory's legislature announced that its debate on a contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China has been postponed after protesters surrounded the council's complex.
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Early this year, Mexico drafted a judicial reform including measures that would have made it harder for lawyers to delay extraditions of clients to the United States.
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Their movement initially formed in opposition to contentious legislation that would have allowed extraditions to the Chinese mainland, where the courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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Since June, demonstrations sparked by a bill to allow extraditions from Hong Kong to the mainland have drawn unprecedented numbers of protesters determined to resist Beijing's influence.
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A Hong Kong government proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China is stoking fresh anxiety about the resilience of local autonomy in the financially important former British colony.
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Hong Kong's government wants to remedy that by changing local ordinances to allow extraditions but only on the final authority of the chief executive, the city's top official.
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Zbigniew Ziobro said the ruling did not mean that extraditions to Poland should be automatically stopped, but only that other courts would be free to decide on it.
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China said that Britain no longer has a say in what goes on in the city, where people have protested against a bill to allow extraditions to China.
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Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, had plenty of political support in the territory's pro-Beijing legislature to pass a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Hong Kong had never allowed extraditions to mainland China before — a safeguard agreed upon when Britain returned the territory and Beijing promised it a high degree of autonomy.
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Under that legislation, if Hong Kong is deemed to be insufficiently autonomous from China, the president can suspend agreements with the city on trade, investment, visas and extraditions.
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The Coast Guard has claimed that between 2002 and 313, cases against these maritime smugglers helped the government secure three-quarters of its extraditions of Colombian drug kingpins.
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Protests in Hong Kong escalated in June over a since-withdrawn bill which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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The government could slow down extraditions to the United States, keeping sought-after drug lords like Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, instead of sending them north.
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Thailand's military rulers, for their part, appear to be seeking economic and political backing from Beijing in return for security and police cooperation, including in secretive extraditions, analysts say.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than 100 people blocked a Hong Kong government building on Monday in protest against proposed legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China that they want scrapped.
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The planned legislation comes amid a political crisis in the former British colony, where protests have boiled over against a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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The protests, which kicked off over the weekend and gathered an estimated 240,000 to million people, were aimed at stopping a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Turkey submitted four separate extraditions requests for Gülen — a onetime ally of Erdogan before the two had a falling out — in the wake of the failed coup in July.
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The march's organisers estimated that 550,000 people demonstrated in the former British colony, numbers bolstered by anger over a now-shelved bill that would have allowed extraditions to China.
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Hong Kong apology: The territory's top leader, Carrie Lam, said today that she would not resign as she apologized for having proposed legislation to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Organizers contend that close to two million of the territory's seven million people participated, calling on the government to withdraw proposed legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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She pushed a bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, fueling fears that anyone in Hong Kong could be directly exposed to China's notorious criminal justice system.
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President Hernández, 50, has denied any involvement in drug crimes and said the allegations against him were made by traffickers angered by his tough-on-crime policies and extraditions.
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It is the latest sign of Mexico's commitment to step up extraditions after U.S. President Donald Trump backed off from his threat to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.
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Exports to the city plunged 26.8 percent in June, when protesters first turned out in large numbers against a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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Protesters have rallied across Hong Kong over the past four months in what started as opposition to a now-withdrawn bill that would have enabled extraditions to mainland China.
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The months of unrest started over an unpopular bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, which many saw as the end of Hong Kong's distinction from the mainland.
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The big picture: Cheng's accusations could further provoke the ongoing violent protests in the former British colony that started June against a bill that would allow extraditions to China.
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Opponents of a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China were undeterred by the suspension of the legislation, protesting by the hundreds of thousands for the second consecutive weekend.
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Mr. Xi's trip fortuitously gave him some distance from the events in Hong Kong, where the leadership on Saturday suspended its push for legislation to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Lam has been a target for ire ever since she pushed an unpopular bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, legislation that set off mass protests in June.
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Mexico has announced justice reforms that would aid cooperation, including making it harder for criminals to delay extraditions and improving Mexico's ability to use judicially approved wiretaps in criminal cases.
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Hong Kong's protests, started to oppose a proposed law that would allow extraditions to China, have rattled its stock markets in recent months, as have worries over the Sino-U.
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Officers moved in after crowds stormed and trashed Hong Kong's legislature on Monday, the anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, protesting against proposed legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China.
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His case now sprawls across multiple states and countries and has so far involved 30 defendants — including a popular Jamaican disc jockey — five federal indictments, and nine extraditions from Jamaica.
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But after Lehder, there have been, I would say, hundreds of drug traffickers extradited to the US. Extradition became so common that the US media doesn't even report the extraditions.
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On June 22019th hundreds of thousands of people—over a million, organisers say—peacefully marched in opposition to a government bill that would allow extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China.
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"These extraditions reflect the continued determination of law enforcement to prosecute all who took part in the ambush of two federal agents," U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips said in a release.
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The American authorities think the extraditions served a critical purpose at a historic juncture, "demonstrating to the Colombian people that there are no such things as untouchables," as one put it.
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But opponents object because the bill would also allow for extraditions to mainland China, where protections for defendants are weak and the party routinely prosecutes dissidents and others for political reasons.
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At first, the protesters focused their ire on the contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China — and their huge demonstrations forced the city's leader to suspend the legislation indefinitely.
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Demonstrators in Hong Kong on Sunday dismissed the government's suspension of a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, and returned to the streets with a lengthening list of demands.
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Lam's argument failed to resonate, in part because many believe Hong Kong can find a way to ensure Mr. Chan faces trial without opening the door to extraditions to the mainland.
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While city leaders have canceled a bill that would have allowed extraditions of people suspected of crimes to the mainland, a catalyst for the protests, they have continued over other problems.
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A representative of China's Hong Kong affairs office denounced the demonstrators, who are furious about proposed legislation allowing extraditions to China, and said Beijing supports holding criminals responsible, state media said.
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After one of the largest protests in the territory's history, its chief executive, Carrie Lam, said Monday that she didn't intend to withdraw legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Hundreds of thousands marched through some of Hong Kong's main commercial districts like Wan Chai to express anger over contentious legislation, since scrapped, that would have allowed extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
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But reports of Russians arrested for hacking crimes when they leave their homeland have become common in recent years, and have led to accused hackers' extraditions from Norway, the Netherlands, and Spain.
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The bill would remove a provision in Hong Kong's current law that excludes extraditions to "other parts of China", which in Hong Kong means the mainland, as well as Macau and Taiwan.
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Various groups in Hong Kong, including democracy activists, have objected to the proposals, which would allow case-by-case extraditions from the city to countries without formal extradition agreements, including mainland China.
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They have stood by those decisions even after they have blown up into unexpected crises, like this week's tumultuous demonstrations in Hong Kong against a plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Beijing supported a Hong Kong bill paving the way to extraditions to the mainland, but after several enormous protests by the city's residents, local authorities have halted their pursuit of the legislation.
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The clashes marked the most dramatic escalation in the city's weeks-long protest movement against a proposed law that would allow extraditions to China, worried about further erosion of Hong Kong's autonomy.
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The police have fired nearly 16,000 rounds of tear gas and 10,000 rubber bullets since the protests began in June over a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to China.
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The protests, which began in June in opposition to a bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, have hurt the tourism and retail sectors, pushing the city's economy into recession.
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That was further underscored on Tuesday when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sidestepped questions on extraditions to China, saying Canada would stick to high standards when deciding whether to return Chinese citizens.
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ABIR VARMANew York The protests in Hong Kong against the bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China are mounting challenges to the authority of Xi Jinping as China's leader (Chaguan, June 29th).
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An estimated 1 million people took to the streets Sunday to demonstrate against the bill, which authorities claim is intended to "plug a loophole" preventing extraditions between Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.
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Finally, after several months on the lam and two separate extraditions, the Dutch dentist known as Mark Van Nierop (but whose real name is Jacobus Marinus Van Nierop) will finally face a jury.
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Various groups in Hong Kong, including democracy activists, have objected to the proposed legislation, which would allow case-by-case extraditions from the city to countries without formal extradition agreements, including mainland China.
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When hundreds of thousands of my fellow Hong Kongers took to the streets to demonstrate last month, most of the world saw people protesting provocative legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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HONG KONG — Backing down after days of huge street protests, Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, said on Saturday that she would indefinitely suspend a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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At first, the hundreds of thousands of peaceful Hong Kong demonstrators who took to the streets this June were focused on contentious, local legislation that would have allowed extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
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The four months of unrest in Hong Kong started over an unpopular bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, which many saw as the end of Hong Kong's distinction from the mainland.
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A Ukrainian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty to operating a botnet that used over 13,000 computers to steal banking information, another in a recent spate of high-profile extraditions and convictions for hacking.
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While the United States and Mexican government celebrate captures and extraditions of high-profile capos, there's no shortage of mid-level gangsters ready to take their place and hang poorly written letters to presidents.
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Search, seizure and confiscation can involve cases with a penalty of two years in prison or more, compared with the threshold of seven years for extraditions under the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, the submission notes.
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" China denies interfering in Hong Kong and has warned that the violent protests over the proposed legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China were an "undisguised challenge to the formula under which it is ruled.
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China denies interfering in Hong Kong and has warned that the violent protests over the proposed legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China were an "undisguised challenge" to the formula under which it is ruled.
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The protests come as a majority of politicians in the regional government's Legislative Council appeared ready to approve a bill supported by Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, that would allow for the extraditions.
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The Hong Kong government seized on this case and used it as the rationale to propose amendments that would allow case-by-case extraditions to countries that lack formal extradition treaties with Hong Kong.
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The current unrest was originally prompted by anger over planned legislation to allow extraditions to China, but has broadened into calls for democracy and for Communist rulers in Beijing to leave the city alone.
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The protest movement began in June in opposition to contentious legislation, since shelved, that would have allowed extraditions from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland, where the courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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A call to expand Hong Kong's limited democracy is one of the demands of the protest movement, which began in June over a now-withdrawn proposal that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
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Hong Kong has been convulsed by more than six months of protests, triggered by a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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The bill would allow case by case extraditions to mainland China and despite its postponement, around two million people spilled on to the streets on Sunday, demanding Lam step down and scrap the bill entirely.
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Storefronts were shuttered across the city as residents took off from work in opposition to a controversial bill proposed by the government that would permit extraditions to China, which has been suspended but not withdrawn.
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From the beginning, Mexican and American officials say, the Mexican attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, made it clear to his American counterparts that there would be a severe drop in extraditions to the United States.
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The president cooperated in extraditions, purging a corrupt police force and bolstering prosecutors and even invited in a key Organization of American States-sponsored anti-corruption body, measures that helped hasten his younger brother's trial.
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He said, however, that the increasing use of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), first introduced in 2004, would make it harder to block extraditions of the kind he had fought for Basques in the 1990s.
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Every year, tens of thousands of fugitives and suspects — many of whom have not been convicted of a crime — are entrusted to a handful of small private companies that specialize in state and local extraditions.
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Iván Velásquez, who led the Supreme Court's paramilitary corruption investigation, said at a forum in Bogotá a few years ago that the truth-telling by paramilitary leaders was not impressive before or after the extraditions.
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The move came two days after hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory, marched in protest of a plan by the local government to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
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China denies interfering in Hong Kong and warned this week that the violent protests over the proposed legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China were an "undisguised challenge" to the formula under which it is ruled.
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"BE LIKE WATER" Police arrested a number of prominent pro-democracy activists and three lawmakers on Friday, seeking to rein in a movement which started with anger over planned legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China.
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The Hong Kong protests began in June over legislation, since scrapped, that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, and have expanded to include a broad range of demands for police accountability and greater democracy.
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On the third day of his extradition hearing at London's Woolwich Crown Court, his lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said extradition for political offences was not allowed under the Anglo-US Extraditions Treaty set up in 2003.
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The Hong Kong protests began in June over legislation, since scrapped, that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, and have expanded to include a broad range of demands for police accountability and greater democracy.
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The Hong Kong government introduced the proposals in February, putting forward sweeping changes that would simplify case-by-case extraditions of criminal suspects to countries beyond the 20 with which Hong Kong has extradition treaties.
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The protests began in response to a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party, and have evolved into a broader pro-democracy movement.
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The bill would allow case-by-case extraditions to mainland China and despite its postponement, about two million people spilled on to the streets on Sunday, demanding Lam scrap the bill entirely and step down.
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A decision to put on hold indefinitely a proposal to allow extraditions from the Asian financial hub to the mainland makes clear that the world's second largest economy is vulnerable to the right kind of pressure.
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The Hong Kong government first launched the proposals in February, proposing sweeping changes that would simplify case-by-case extraditions of criminal suspects to countries beyond the 20 with which Hong Kong has existing extradition treaties.
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The case is the first real test of the U.K.'s "forum bar," a provision revised in 2013 to give U.K. courts more oversight in potential extraditions to the U.S. where both countries can claim jurisdiction.
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Storefronts were shuttered across the city as residents took off from work in opposition to a controversial bill proposed by the government that would permit extraditions to China; the bill has been suspended but not withdrawn.
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"Give me democracy or give me death," was spray-painted on a wall, an illustration how the demands of the protesters have expanded beyond the withdrawal of a bill that would have allowed extraditions to China.
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Besides stepping down, protesters are demanding that Chief Executive Carrie Lam fully withdraw a contentious bill to allow extraditions to mainland China that has sparked a series of demonstrations in the Asian trade and finance center.
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Six of the men charged in Lesandro's death declined to challenge their extraditions at a Tuesday hearing in Paterson, N.J. Hours later, the police announced the arrest of a new suspect, Elvin Garcia, in the Bronx.
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The withdrawal of the bill, which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, ushered in a sense of respite after months of unrest that has thrown the Chinese-administred city into its worst crisis in decades.
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Last week, in one of the latest extraditions, the Mexican government sent Rubén Oseguera, the son of one of the nation's most powerful drug lords, to the United States to face drug-trafficking and firearms charges.
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Police arrived by bus and moved into position as about a thousand protesters, furious at a proposed law allowing extraditions to China, gathered around the Legislative Council building in the heart of the city's financial district.
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to demand the local government scrap a plan that would allow extraditions to mainland China — an idea that has also raised concerns among foreign investors.
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While Lowe was in jail, he allegedly told Feldstein to alert jail officials that California was "having issues with overcrowding and all low-priority extraditions have been suspended," according to a police probable cause affidavit, reports KTHV.
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The Hong Kong government first launched the proposals in February, putting forward sweeping changes that would simplify case-by-case extraditions of criminal suspects to countries beyond the 20 with which Hong Kong has existing extradition treaties.
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The protests began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China but have quickly morphed into the biggest challenge to China's authority over the city since it took Hong Kong back from Britain in 1997.
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The protests began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China but have quickly morphed into the biggest challenge to China's authority over the city since it took Hong Kong back from Britain in 22016.
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The possible withdrawal of a bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China ushered in a sense of respite after months of unrest that has thrown the Chinese-administred city into its worst crisis in decades.
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After mass demonstrations in which the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters on Wednesday, the Legislative Council announced today that it would again delay discussing a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Hong Kong police arrested a number of prominent pro-democracy activists on Friday, seeking to rein in a movement which started with anger over planned legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China and broadened into calls for democracy.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The government of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stepped up extraditions of suspected drug cartel leaders to the United States, official data shows, as Washington presses for increased bilateral cooperation on security.
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Protests have evolved into a broader pro-democracy movement since they erupted in June in response to a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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With the first two months of this year not yet over, the government already has extradited at least 30 suspects to the United States, a sharp acceleration of extraditions from the more leisurely pace of recent years.
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Opposition to a proposed Hong Kong law to allow extraditions to China on Sunday triggered the former British colony's biggest political demonstration since its return to Chinese rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" deal.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday formally withdrew planned legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, meeting one of five demands of pro-democracy protesters but unlikely to end months of often violent unrest.
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Some judges, leading lawyers and diplomats acknowledge the need for extraditions to the mainland in the long term, but say improvements to the Chinese system and a negotiated treaty with broad consultation and tougher safeguards would be needed.
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Lam had vowed to press ahead with amendments to local law to allow extraditions to places with which the city has no such arrangements — including mainland China, where many in Hong Kong fear possible entanglement with its courts.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - For 53-year-old Perry Dino, a paintbrush and canvas are weapons for opposing the Hong Kong government as it faces mass protests against a now-suspended bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Police arrived by bus and moved into position as about a thousand protesters, furious at a proposed law allowing extraditions to China, gathered around the Legislative Council building in the heart of the former British colony's financial district.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Anger in Hong Kong over a move to allow extraditions to mainland China spilled over into Sydney on Sunday, with migrants gathering for a protest and urging the Australian government to condemn the proposed new law.
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Under the changes, Hong Kong's leader would have the right to order case-by-case extraditions of wanted offenders to mainland China, Macau and Taiwan, as well as other countries not covered by Hong Kong's existing extradition treaties.
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What began as protests against a bill that would have allowed extraditions to the Chinese mainland have ballooned into a fight to uphold democracy in the city, and protesters have called for Lam's resignation, alongside other central demands.
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Riot police used pepper spray and water cannons in a bid to disperse the tens of thousands of protesters who had gathered around the legislature to stop lawmakers from debating a plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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HONG KONG — Fractures in the Hong Kong government widened Friday over an unpopular bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, which has led to an uproar in the territory and the most violent street protests in years.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, said Monday that she had no intention of withdrawing contentious legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China, despite hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against it the day before.
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Civil servants said they support the protesters in their demand for the withdrawal of the extradition bill, an unpopular proposal that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where the courts are controlled by the governing Communist Party.
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Civil servants said they support the protesters in their demand for the withdrawal of the extradition bill, an unpopular proposal that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where the courts are controlled by the governing Communist Party.
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HONG KONG — As tens of thousands of protesters returned to Hong Kong's streets on Wednesday to speak out against a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China, one prominent voice has been largely silent: big business.
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Singapore is seen as a potential beneficiary from any capital flight from Hong Kong where a local government plan to allow extraditions of suspects to face trial in China for the first time set off days of street protests.
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The protests, triggered by a now-suspended bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, have plunged the former British colony into its worst crisis since its return to China in 1997 and pose a major challenge for Beijing.
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Hong Kong activists say they are planning another mass rally at the weekend to pressure the government to drop a plan to allow extraditions to China, as worries over the future of the former British colony's unique status grow.
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The weeks-long protests began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China but have quickly morphed into the biggest challenge to China's authority over the city since it took Hong Kong back from Britain in 1997.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has delayed indefinitely a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after widespread anger over the bill sparked the biggest street protests in three decades.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's decision to quit the European Union has no impact on its powers to request extraditions from other EU states as long as it remains a member of the bloc, the EU's top court ruled on Wednesday.
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The bill, which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China where courts are controlled by the Communist Party, triggered months of unrest and posed the gravest challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.
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The Legislative Council announced Thursday that it would delay for at least two days discussing a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, following mass demonstrations in which the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.
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HONG KONG — Hundreds of thousands of people filled the sweltering streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in an immense protest against a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China that culminated after midnight in clashes with the police.
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MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government is on track to dramatically increase the number of extraditions of criminal suspects to the United States this year, as the Trump administration has pressured Mexico to step up its fight against organized crime.
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The bill has attracted widespread opposition from those who fear it would compromise the independence of Hong Kong's legal system, and pave the way for Beijing to clamp down on dissent in the city by seeking extraditions for political reasons.
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Protesters tried to storm Hong Kong's legislature on the anniversary of the city's 1997 return to Chinese rule on Monday, using a metal trolley and poles to smash windows amid anger over planned legislation that would allow extraditions to China.
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As well as removing an explicit block on extraditions to mainland China in the current Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, the amendments also remove the restrictions on the mainland from the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance, known as the MLAO.
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Lam has said the extradition law is necessary to prevent criminals using Hong Kong as a place to hide and that human rights will be protected by the city's court which will decide on a case-by-case basis extraditions.
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A legal change put forward this year by the Hong Kong government to allow criminal extraditions to China was the spark for the protest movement, but at its core lie years of mounting frustration over perceptions of waning local autonomy.
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Extraditions and the US In Le Monde, Erdogan also reiterated his call to the United States to extradite Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been living in exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 and who Erdogan accuses of being behind the coup.
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Earlier this month, the brand Undercover posted on its Instagram account a photo of protesters with the slogan "no extradition to China," referencing a proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China that triggered large-scale protests in Hong Kong.
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"The document was sent confidentially through the Unit of International Cooperation and Extraditions of the National Prosecutor's Office to Chile's Ministry of Foreign Affairs so that it can send the referral to the Vatican through diplomatic channels," the prosecutor's office said.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by months of sometimes violent unrest, prompted by anger over planned legislation to allow extraditions to China, but broadening into calls for democracy and for Communist Party rulers in Beijing to leave the city alone.
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CreditCreditLam Yik Fei for The New York Times The Hong Kong government has suspended a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, in a significant concession to protesters who turned out by the hundreds of thousands to oppose it.
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HONG KONG — Riot police officers used pepper spray and water cannons against huge crowds of protesters who blocked roads around Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday morning, as lawmakers prepared to debate a contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Hong Kong's embattled leader, Carrie Lam, shelved the bill — which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China — on Saturday and followed that up with a rare apology on Sunday evening, actions that pro-democracy activists dismissed as too little, too late.
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Protesters in Hong Kong, angered by the government's refusal to back down on a contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, are preparing more actions this week as lawmakers resume debate on the legislation and accelerate the final vote.
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Riot police officers used pepper spray and water cannons today in a bid to disperse the tens of thousands of protesters who had gathered around the legislature to stop lawmakers from debating a plan to allow extraditions to mainland China.
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Often-violent protests, sparked by a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, have persisted in Hong Kong for more than seven months and the long queues at the fairs showed they retain broad popular support.
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The proposals seek to restrict legal challenges known as amparos to avoid delaying extraditions, something used to draw out the legal process of several drug traffickers, including Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman, currently serving a life sentence in the United States.
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That included mainland China, and many Hongkongers feared this would open up the territory — which is supposed to have a separate justice system under the "one country, two systems" policy — to arbitrary extraditions, including for those critical of the Chinese government.
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The protests in Hong Kong, initially focused on legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, expanded to include accusations of police brutality after the police began using batons, pepper spray, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds.
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The protests in Hong Kong, initially focused on legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, expanded to include accusations of police brutality after the police began using batons, pepper spray, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds.
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February 2019 – Hong Kong's Security Bureau submits a paper to the city's legislature proposing amendments to extradition laws that would provide for case-by-case extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday formally withdrew planned legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, but the move was unlikely to end months of unrest as it met just one of five demands of pro-democracy demonstrators.
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The protests, originally over a now-suspended bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, have plunged the former British colony into its worse crisis since its return to China in 1997 and pose a major challenge for Communist Party rulers in Beijing.
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The protests, originally over a now-suspended bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, have plunged the former British colony into its worst crisis since its return to China in 1997 and pose a major challenge for Communist Party rulers in Beijing.
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The protests, originally over a now-suspended bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, have plunged the former British colony into its worse crisis since its return to China in 1997 and pose a major challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Human rights experts from the United Nations called on Spain on Friday to halt extraditions of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals to China because of concerns they would be exposed to the risk of torture, ill treatment or the death penalty.
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The protests, triggered by a now-suspended bill that would have allowed extraditions to China, have plunged the former British colony into its worst crisis since its return to China in 1997 and pose a major challenge for Communist Party rulers in Beijing.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city's biggest and most violent street protests in decades.
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Lam had said the extradition law was necessary to prevent criminals using Hong Kong as a place to hide and that human rights would be protected by the city's court which would decide on the extraditions on a case-by-case basis.
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Hong Kong's top official doubled down on a contentious plan to allow extraditions to China on Monday, one day after hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in one of the biggest demonstrations to shake the former British colony in years.
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Lam has said the extradition law is necessary to prevent criminals using Hong Kong as a place to hide and that human rights will be protected by the city's court which will decide on the extraditions on a case-by-case basis.
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Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she's committed to completing her term despite massive protests calling for her resignation — but she apologized for stoking anxiety and conflict with an unpopular legislative plan that would allow criminal extraditions to mainland China.
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The weeks-long protests in Hong Kong began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China but have quickly morphed into the biggest challenge to China's authority over the city since it took Hong Kong back from Britain in 1997.
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February 244 – Hong Kong's Security Bureau submits a paper to the city's legislature proposing amendments to extradition laws that would provide for case-by-case extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 214 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.
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Many opponents of an unpopular bill, slated to allow extraditions to mainland China, focused their anger on the territory's chief executive, Carrie Lam, who insisted on pushing through the legislation despite a public outcry that grew into a series of massive protests.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by months of sometimes violent unrest, prompted by anger over planned legislation that would have allowed extraditions to China but broadening into calls for democracy and for Communist Party rulers in Beijing to leave the city alone.
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Over seven months of protests have evolved into a broader pro-democracy movement since they erupted in June last year in response to a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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The start of Hong Kong's protests are usually marked as June 9, when according to protest organizers more than 1 million people marched through the city's streets, calling for the government to withdraw proposed legislation that would allow for extraditions to mainland China.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Cracks appeared on Friday in the support base for a proposed Hong Kong law to allow extraditions to China, and opponents of the bill said they would stage more demonstrations after hundreds of thousands took to the streets this week.
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The judges and lawyers say that under Hong Kong's British-based common law system, extraditions are based on the presumption of a fair trial and humane punishment in the receiving country — a core trust they say China's Communist Party-controlled legal system has not earned.
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The judges and lawyers say that under Hong Kong's British-based common law system, extraditions are based on the presumption of a fair trial and humane punishment in the receiving country a core trust they say China's Communist Party-controlled legal system has not earned.
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Widespread local anger against legislation proposed by the Hong Kong government that would allow criminal extraditions to mainland China exploded this month in the form of mass protests that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of the territory of about 7.4 million people.
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MADRID, May 18 (Reuters) - Human rights experts from the United Nations called on Spain on Friday to halt extraditions of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals to China because of concerns they would be exposed to the risk of torture, ill treatment or the death penalty.
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After a last-ditch intervention by Britain and the United States, the organization swerved away from electing a Russian closely linked to the Kremlin, Alexander Prokopchuk, who is widely accused of using Interpol's international arrest warrant scheme to attempt extraditions of Putin's critics abroad.
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PANIC AND CHAOS The weeks-long protests in Hong Kong began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China but have quickly morphed into the biggest challenge to China's authority over the city since it took Hong Kong back from Britain in 1997.
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HONG KONG — For the second Sunday in a row, hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong demonstrated against a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China, despite the local government's announcement a day earlier that it was indefinitely suspending the bill.
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On Wednesday, the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a huge throng of protesters who forced lawmakers to postpone a debate on legislation to allow extraditions to mainland China — a measure Hong Kong residents fear would subject them to the Communist Party's whims.
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With the government on the defensive after a day of violent clashes between protesters and the police, the president of Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday agreed to delay by at least two days consideration of a contentious bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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HONG KONG — Riot police officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets in downtown Hong Kong on Wednesday as they repelled tens of thousands of protesters who tried to swarm the city's legislature in anger over proposed legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong's security forces faced widespread criticism on Thursday over the tear gas and rubber bullets that local police used a day earlier to suppress tens of thousands of people demonstrating against an unpopular bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
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"BE LIKE WATER" Police arrested a number of prominent pro-democracy activists and three lawmakers on Friday, seeking to rein in a movement that began with anger over planned legislation allowing extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the ruling Communist Party.
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"The Mexican government has expressed its willingness to cooperate with the United States under the aforementioned understanding that the security of the region is a shared responsibility," the ministry said, adding the extraditions comply with Mexico's legal framework and respond to the national interest.
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Saoirse Townshend, a London-based lawyer who specializes on extraditions, said in an email on Sunday that Britain could seek Ms. Sacoolas's extradition, but in order to do so, the Crown Prosecution Service would have to formally charge Ms. Sacoolas with a crime first.
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It explicitly allows extraditions from Hong Kong to greater China - including the mainland, Taiwan and Macau - for the first time, closing what Hong Kong government officials have repeatedly described as a loophole that they say has allowed the city to become a haven for criminals.
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HONG KONG — When Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, said on Saturday that she was suspending an unpopular bill to allow extraditions to mainland China, she expressed hope that her action would restore peace and order in the city, which has been convulsed by demonstrations.
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Police arrived in a convoy of buses near midnight as about 1,000 protesters, furious at a proposed law that would allow extraditions to China, were gathered around the council building in the former British colony's financial district in a direct challenge to authorities in Beijing.
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The indictments likely won't result in extraditions or convictions, but does make it difficult for the alleged ransomware authors to travel freely — running the risk of being detained in a country that has an extradition policy with the U.S. Savandi and Mansouri remain wanted by the FBI.
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The increased number of extraditions in the early months of 2020 comes as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, who took office in December 2018, has struggled to show gains in his government's effort to rein in organized crime groups and the violence they sow.
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Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday formally withdrew planned legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, a bill that triggered the unrest, but the move was unlikely to end the protests because it met just one of the pro-democracy demonstrators' five demands, which include universal suffrage.
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The move comes as Hong Kong has been thrown into turmoil by a proposed extradition bill — declared dead this week by its CEO Carrie Lam — that for the first time would have allowed China to seek extraditions from the city, sparking demonstrations that attracted at least a million protesters.
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Opposition to legal amendments under debate to allow extraditions for certain crimes to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong has no such agreement — including the Chinese mainland — has been increasing for weeks, with an array of groups, including local lawmakers, legal and business organizations and even foreign governments expressing concern.
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It explicitly allows extraditions from Hong Kong to greater China - including the mainland, Taiwan and Macau - for the first time, closing what Hong Kong government officials have repeatedly described as a "loophole" that they claim has allowed the city to become a haven for criminals from the mainland.
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The move comes as Hong Kong has been thrown into turmoil by a proposed extradition bill - declared dead this week by its CEO Carrie Lam - that for the first time would have allowed China to seek extraditions from the city, sparking demonstrations that attracted at least a million protesters.
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Turnout for the vigil has become a barometer of local discontent, and organizers had said they expected more people to show up not just because of the 30th anniversary, but also to vent growing anger over a government proposal to allow extraditions to the mainland for the first time.
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It was the third time in a week that masses shut down the territory's central roads over a proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China, a step that rights activists and others fear would chip away at their remaining freedoms by exposing them to China's opaque legal system.
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Over the course of three months of protests, which began out of opposition towards a now scrapped bill that would have allowed extraditions to Mainland China, protesters have thrown petrol bombs at government buildings, stormed the halls of government, and lit fires on the street outside police stations.
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Mr. Cheng's accusations of extrajudicial torture of a Hong Kong resident could further inflame the protests, which began in June as a demonstration against an unpopular bill that would allow extraditions to the mainland, tapping into deeper concerns in the former British colony about China's notoriously opaque judicial system.
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GIC is not worried about the global financial hot spot status of Hong Kong, where a flurry of protests over a proposed bill to allow extraditions of suspects to face trial in China has spooked investors and prompted some to make plans to move funds elsewhere, including to Singapore.
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Massive crowds took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in a rally which organizers say drew almost 2 million people to demand the city's top official resign a day after she suspended — but did not withdraw — unpopular legislation to allow extraditions to China that opponents say must be scrapped.
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Following is a timeline of the key dates around a now-abandoned extradition bill and the protests it triggered: February 43 Hong Kong's Security Bureau proposes amendments to extradition laws that would allow extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.
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Following is a timeline of the key dates around a now-abandoned extradition bill and the protests it triggered: February 43 – Hong Kong's Security Bureau proposes amendments to extradition laws that would allow extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.
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The proposal also seeks to restrict the use of legal challenges known as amparos to avoid delaying extraditions, something that has been used to draw out the legal process of several drug traffickers, including that of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman, who is currently serving a life sentence in the United States.
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Although the proposed bill would allow extraditions to more than 170 other jurisdictions, the protests have focused on the potential for people in Hong Kong, including foreigners there, to be sent to mainland China, where courts are explicitly under the Communist Party's control and dissidents are jailed on trumped-up criminal charges.
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The protesters have five demands - the scrapping of now-withdrawn legislation that would have allowed extraditions to China, retraction of the word "riot" to describe the rallies, the release of all detained demonstrators, an independent inquiry into perceived police brutality and the right for Hong Kong people to choose their own leader.
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The U.S. hopes the extraditions will serve as a message to cybercriminals worldwide: "Our message to the victims of cyber fraud is that the FBI won't let geographic boundaries stop us from pursuing and prosecuting the persons who cause them tremendous financial pain," FBI Special Agent in Charge David LeValley said in a statement.
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According to Bland, it has become more apparent in the last few weeks that Hong Kong's government is "increasingly only operating on direct instruction or consultation with Beijing," and acting more like a mainland Chinese regional government since Lam's push to enact a law allowing extraditions to the mainland — the original impetus for the protests.
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The lack of trust in the city's leader and legislature due to their undemocratic selection is at the root of the protests -- Lam was not trusted to oversee extraditions, and elected lawmakers cannot exercise effective oversight of police -- but convincing Beijing to allow any changes to this system is perhaps the most difficult of all the demands.
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