International

Extradition is often framed as a simple sequence: a country asks, another arrests, and a court orders surrender. In practice, outcomes can pivot on small legal “pressure points”, from how an arrest is executed to whether detention conditions meet minimum standards, and recent European case law has...

One missing stamp, one mistranslated line, one arrest warrant filed on the wrong date, and a cross-border manhunt can unravel. Extradition, often portrayed as a straightforward handover between states, is in practice a high-stakes legal relay where procedure matters as much as politics, and where...