Assange: NGO calls for extradition treaty review

..an Interpol and extradition focussed NGO has called on several Parliamentary Committees to investigat

In light of the Julian Assange appeal, an Interpol and extradition focussed NGO has called on several Parliamentary Committees to investigate the need for changes to Britain’s extradition treaties and process.

Radha Stirling, who heads up the groups IPEX Reform and Due Process International, herself a leading expert witness on the issue, has written to the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Joint Human Rights Committee and the Home Affairs Committee to offer evidence from “more than a dozen witnesses” on how the extradition process is leading to human rights violations.

One of Stirling’s concerns is that the extradition treaties are “infringing on UK sovereignty” in that countries are misusing the process to expand their jurisdiction, meaning that British citizens would have to abide by the laws of countries they haven’t even been to.