Both before and after the handover there have been cases in which both Hong Kong and another country have had concurrent jurisdiction.As you say, we are discussing establishing formal rendition arrangements with the mainland.
As Mr Li is a mainland resident he cannot be returned through this channel and in the absence of a formal rendition arrangement we have no legal means to seek his return for trial.The Chinese criminal code gives mainland courts jurisdiction over crimes committed by Chinese nationals outside the judicial territory of the People's Republic.
A virtuoso at multiple styles of musical comedy who has refined a hundred variations of the double take, Ms. Sullivan can turn on a dime and deliver a formal rendition of "Dancing in the Dark" in which her luscious middle and lower registers supply serious drama.
"Doesn't the report make clear that at least some who authorized or participated in the RDI program committed crimes?" the document asks, referring to the program's formal internal name, the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program.
Crimes committed in Hong Kong should be tried there.After the legal fuss that surrounded Cheung Tze-keung's case, the Hong Kong government promised to seek formal arrangements with China: a "rendition" agreement, along the lines of an extradition treaty, was clearly needed if Hong Kong citizens were to be protected from the long arm of Chinese law.
Former CIA director George Tenet later testified that, in the years before 9/11, the CIA shipped some 70 individuals to foreign countries without formal extradition -- a process dubbed "extraordinary rendition" that had been explicitly banned under Article 3 of the U.N. Convention.
It remained for Ms. Cook to deliver the definitive rendition of "Here's to Life," the formal summing-up pop anthem for mature performers that has become a cabaret staple.
A joint panel of police and Crown prosecutors has examined at least 12 allegations in addition to the Libyan rendition cases, and possibly more, but declined to mount formal investigations in at least nine cases, much to the anger of the complainants.
What prevents this rendition of an old, familiar fable from landing emotionally is the formal distance it keeps from its desperate characters.
When the issue flared shortly after his inauguration, senior administration officials were quick to say that abuses including torture would end, but that "ordinary" renditions - the spiriting away of suspects from other countries without going through the formal process of extradition -- would be continued in a cleaned-up form.
Here's a recent rendition.
