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Palau, Yves

doi:10.3917/rai.076.0145

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“…Palau, for example, defines a political offence as 'any charge or conviction based on a person's political beliefs or affiliation where the conduct involved does not otherwise constitute a violation of that country's criminal laws.' 271 Following modern practice, most PICs specifically exclude the use of the political offence exception in regard to certain serious offences. 272 Section 2 of Fiji's Extradition Act 2003, for example, excludes the following: offences in a multilateral treaty (to which Fiji is party) subject to an aut dedere aut judicare obligation; genocide; murder, kidnapping or other attack on head of state, government or Minister or immediate family and threatening/attempting such offences; and 'any other offence' that Fiji and the requesting country agree will not be treated as a political offence.…”

Section: Political Offencementioning

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Extradition Law in Pacific Island Countries

Boister

2022

Trans Crim L Rev

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This article examines the law and practice of extradition in the small island nations of the South Pacific, the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). The PICs’ extradition laws make for an interesting subject because of the increased threat of transnational organized crime in the region, the possibility that the PICs may serve as venues of convenience for extradition by powerful states because of their relative weakness, but mainly because they show the influence of powerful states and IGOs on the reform of PIC extradition law. The article sets out the international legal framework governing the PICs’ extradition relations, sketches the domestic legal framework for extradition in the PICs and examines the conditions for and exceptions to extradition. It concludes that external powers have had a strong influence on the simplification of PIC extradition laws and there have only been relatively modest attempts to develop a genuine regional system for extradition.

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Section: Political Offencementioning

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Extradition Law in Pacific Island Countries

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2022

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