I. Facts
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and publisher. He is the founder and editor of WikiLeaks, a public-interest publication all over the world. On November 2010, Assange was wanted in Sweden for questioning on the charges of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion . Subsequently, a Swedish public prosecutor took from Stockholm District Court a domestic detention order against Mr Assange. In compliance with the criminal law of Sweden, the detention order is admissible for the prosecutor to accelerate to issue a European Arrest Warrant . In order to evade justice in Sweden, Assange moved in UK and started long-continued legal process in local courts. By the way, Westminster Magistrates Court upheld and confirmed the warrant . Ultimately, the Supreme court of UK ruled the extradition request had been lawfully made, Lord Phillips, the court 's president, said a majority of five …show more content…
Extradition is the only legal way for a country to surrender its own citizens to another country for the latter to put them on trial or execute their sentence.5 Because of the rule of non-inquiry (although its application by courts may vary greatly from country to country) and the general assumption that the extradited person will receive a fair trial in the requesting state8, in most cases courts are somehow reluctant to deny extradition and tend to interpret extradition laws and treaties in favour of enforcement. 9 Another reason for that tendency is the fact that extradition is often seen by the judiciary as a largely diplomatic and political process.10 That does not mean that extradition happens unobstructed – there are inalienable human rights objections, but it means that a proper threshold must be set for the justification of
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and publisher. He is the founder and editor of WikiLeaks, a public-interest publication all over the world. On November 2010, Assange was wanted in Sweden for questioning on the charges of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion . Subsequently, a Swedish public prosecutor took from Stockholm District Court a domestic detention order against Mr Assange. In compliance with the criminal law of Sweden, the detention order is admissible for the prosecutor to accelerate to issue a European Arrest Warrant . In order to evade justice in Sweden, Assange moved in UK and started long-continued legal process in local courts. By the way, Westminster Magistrates Court upheld and confirmed the warrant . Ultimately, the Supreme court of UK ruled the extradition request had been lawfully made, Lord Phillips, the court 's president, said a majority of five …show more content…
Extradition is the only legal way for a country to surrender its own citizens to another country for the latter to put them on trial or execute their sentence.5 Because of the rule of non-inquiry (although its application by courts may vary greatly from country to country) and the general assumption that the extradited person will receive a fair trial in the requesting state8, in most cases courts are somehow reluctant to deny extradition and tend to interpret extradition laws and treaties in favour of enforcement. 9 Another reason for that tendency is the fact that extradition is often seen by the judiciary as a largely diplomatic and political process.10 That does not mean that extradition happens unobstructed – there are inalienable human rights objections, but it means that a proper threshold must be set for the justification of