Sentence examples for extradition sought from inspiring English sources

(AP) SWITZERLAND: RUSSIAN'S EXTRADITION SOUGHT Swiss officials formally asked the United States to extradite a former Kremlin aide, Pavel Borodin, to face money-laundering charges.

A12 Terrorist's Extradition Sought Lebanon has bowed to popular feeling and rejected a Japanese request to extradite a former member of the Japanese Red Army who had been convicted and imprisoned in Israel in the 1972 attack at Lod Airport, which took 26 lives, and who is wanted by Japan for acts against the state.

Mr Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden over alleged sex crimes in Stockholm in August 2010 but resisted extradition, seeking assurances that he would not be transferred to the US where he is wanted on spying charges.

And a similar objection is made to the requirement that prima facie evidence should be available to a court when extradition is sought.

But for America to extradite someone from Britain the level of proof is rather lower: information (not evidence) that provides a "reasonable basis to believe that the person committed…the offence for which extradition is sought".

Correspondents say that Sweden could apply a more stringent test than that used when an extradition is sought from the United Kingdom.

Babar Ahmad, one of five terror suspects facing imminent extradition, is seeking a high court injunction to prevent his removal to the United States.

But he was arrested soon after he arrived, and Peru quickly sought extradition.

His extradition is being sought by Turkey, which has accused him of fomenting a coup attempt last year.

In 2003 it accused Berezovsky of fraud and sought extradition.

"Their extradition will be sought should they fail to return," Mr Clements added.