A British appeals court ruling on the extradition, pending for months, is expected at any time.
A ruling on the extradition is not expected until next week.
After the ruling, Mr. Fujimori, 69, continued under house arrest in a mansion in this capital city, where he has been since June while awaiting a ruling on the extradition request.
Ruddock said in 2004 he could only apply the policy when ruling on extraditions, and the justice minister, Chris Ellison, who had oversight of the AFP, was not "in a position to give [the AFP] any direction politically".
See articleIn this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsIn a landmark ruling on extraditions, the European Court of Human Rights agreed that Abu Hamza, an Egyptian-born Muslim cleric who is based in Britain, and four other suspected Islamists could be sent to the United States to face terrorism charges.
The Third Circuit affirmed that ruling on appeal.
Among those who went undetected while he lived here was El Said Hassan Mokhles, an Egyptian who is now in jail in Uruguay, awaiting a court ruling on an extradition request by the Egyptian government.
In 1999, Mexico's Supreme Court ruled that he could be extradited to the United States to face the federal indictments against him there, a decision affirmed by a broader ruling on extradition by the court last year.
The police detained the separatist leader, Akhmed Zakayev, who has denied the Russian charges, shortly after his arrival in Warsaw, though a Polish court later ordered his release, pending a ruling on his extradition to Russia, according to news services.
A Swiss court denied Roman Polanski's appeal on Tuesday to be released from jail pending a ruling on his possible extradition to the United States, The Associated Press reported.
The verdict, delivered on July 7 , 1989 was a landmark, the first European ruling on extradition to a death-penalty country.
