Extradition and Political Crimes

This book examines the evolution and current application of the political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe.

Autorentext

Sibel Top is a postdoctoral researcher and the managing director of the Fundamental Rights Research Center of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is also an affiliated researcher of the Center for Migration, Diversity and Justice of the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Inhalt

1. Reviving the political offence exception in Europe. 2. The concept of the political offence exception to extradition and existing tests to determine the political nature of an offence. 3. Evolution of the political offence exception in CoE Conventions. 4. Evolution of the political offence exception in the EU legal framework. 5. Catalan independence crisis: understanding the reaction of the Spanish government to Catalan claims of a fight for national liberation. 6. Between a rock and a hard place: EU member states in the Catalan independence crisis and the crisis of the European arrest warrant system. 7. Abolition and use of the political offence exception clause in the European context.