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by UncleEntity 1644 days ago
> We also don't strictly _have_ to extradite criminals to other countries. But we usually do.

As far as I know a country won’t extradite one of their citizens for something that isn’t illegal in their home country.

Or extradite for something that is legal in the country else we’d be seeing a bunch of Saudi expat women getting extradited for gasp driving a car or something.

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Thailand was mulling over extraditing Nur Sajat, a Malaysian trans woman, on charges of blasphemy for "cross-dressing," a crime implicitly defined in its Sharia court system. I'm not sure where happened in her case, but the very fact Thailand didn't reject Malaysia's request immediately suggests people are extradited even when the charges wouldn't apply in the extraditing country.