A Guide To Extradition

Extradition is relevant for international cooperation.

By means of this process a state delivers an individual to another state that has made the request (passive extradition), or an individual currently within the territory of another state is requested (active extradition), in order to carry out a prison sentence (executive extradition) or a trial (trial extradition).

The individual if extradited, will be subjected to a trial (trial extradtion), or will have to carry out a penal sentence, if necessary is imposed in an irreversible fashion (executive extradition) in the the state that requests the extradition.

To regulate extradition there are bilateral treaties between countries and the regulations of international law.