What is Extradition?

According to legal definitions, Extradition is the process of surrendering an accused or convicted persons from one state to a different state. The purpose of extradition is to prevent a person who has been accused of a crime from escaping and to ensure their return to the area where the crime occurred. Persons who have been charged with a crime but have not been tried yet may be extradited. Extraditable persons also include those who have been tried and convicted but have escaped custody and persons who have been subject to conviction in absentia. The consensus in international law is that a state does not have any obligation to surrender an alleged criminal to a foreign state as one principle of sovereignty is that every state has legal authority over the people within its borders. States with no binding treaty is under no obligation to extradite an individual, but there is no statement in the international law that indicates that states can prohibit extradition.

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