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by riffraff 1819 days ago
> I think extraditions should be made illegal and declared "unconstitutional" since you cannot guarantee that the target country has the same quality/level of constitution as the country an individual is extradited from.

Extraditions are already approved by courts, and often are negated.

For a famous example it took >30 years to get Cesare Battisti[0] to an Italian jail since France, Mexico and Brazil denied his extradition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Battisti_(born_1954)#Di...