Former German official wanted in bribery case opposes extradition from France
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PARIS (CP) - A former German defence official wanted in his homeland for allegedly accepting a bribe in a party financing scandal told a French court Wednesday that he does not want to be extradited.
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday refused to block the extradition of deposed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France after his long prison sentence in Florida ends on Sunday.
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A U.S. judge denied a request on Friday from Poland's government to extradite a Chicago businessman for allegedly soliciting the murder of a former Warsaw police chief, denouncing the key witness as "a known scoundrel" and chastising prosecutors over faulty evidence.
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Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega failed again Wednesday to persuade a federal judge to block France from extraditing him to face money-laundering charges.
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Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian court has ruled for a German man to be extradited over fraud indictments.
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HAMBURG -- The decision by Munich prosecutors to press charges against CIA counterterrorism operatives for kidnapping a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, won widespread applause last week from German politicians and the public. "The great ally is not allowed to simply send its thugs out into Europe's...
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A fugitive former left-wing extremist fighting extradition to Italy where he has been convicted for terrorist offenses has failed to make a required regular check-in with Paris police, his lawyer said.
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BERLIN, Feb. 28 -- The State Department's top lawyer said Wednesday that the United States would refuse to extradite CIA officers who face kidnapping charges in Italy, warning that European criminal prosecutions of U.S. agents were harming transatlantic counterterrorism efforts.
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Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the target of death threats over her criticism of radical Islam, said she has asked France to grant her citizenship because she cannot be assured of protection back home.
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved the extradition of former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France, where he is accused of money laundering, when his long Florida prison sentence ends next month.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Reaction in Germany was hardly neutral when a prosecutor in Munich indicted 13 CIA officials last week for kidnapping a German of Lebanese descent and interrogating him in Afghanistan before apparently realizing they had the wrong man. Germans solidly backed the prosecutor.
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France had "taken note" of a U.S. court ruling in the case of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega but an official on Sunday declined comment on his possible extradition to Paris after his U.S. prison term ends.
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BERLIN, Sept. 23 -- German authorities confirmed Sunday that they have dropped efforts to seek the extradition of 13 CIA operatives charged in the kidnapping of a German citizen in the Balkans four years ago.
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A formal request is made to Moscow for the extradition of an ex-KGB agent accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, the Foreign Office confirms.
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The decision over whether to try the outgoing Defense Secretary for 'war crimes' rests with a German government appointee rather than a judge, making it unlikely the case will proceed
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A prosecutor calls for the detention of Jerome Kerviel, at the centre of the SocGen rogue trader investigation.
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BERLIN, Sept. 23 -- German authorities confirmed Sunday that they have dropped their efforts to seek the extradition of 13 CIA operatives charged in the kidnapping of a German citizen in the Balkans four years ago.