extradite

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When the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture, it promised to extradite or prosecute those who commit, or are complicit in, the commission of torture.

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  1. transitive verb To give up or deliver (a fugitive, for example) to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority.
  2. transitive verb To obtain the extradition of. See Synonyms at banish.
  3. intransitive verb To perform the act of extradition or engage in the process of extradition: "Rio or Uruguay or wherever it is that they do not extradite for murder” (Scott Turow).

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  • SOFIA - Prosecutors said on Wednesday former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, wanted in Serbia on war crime charges, would stay in custody in Bulgaria for 72 hours while Sofia decided whether to extradite or release him. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • These are regarded as 'extraditable offences', and the signatories are obliged to either extradite or prosecute the offenders, cooperate in preventive measures, and exchange information and evidence needed in the related criminal proceedings. —  India eNews
  • Theptai said the Lao government had stated that it would extradite —  The Nation - Breaking News
  • Denmark's relations with Russia were damaged by its refusal both to extradite a Chechen rebel envoy in 2002 and to cancel a Copenhagen conference that year of rebels and rights activists.
  • It will be a great embarrassment if we refuse to honor their warrants and extradite the defendants for trial, and the Obama administration will have dramatically worsened the damage done to our reputation by Bush and his co-conspirators; the sordid 8 year crime spree will become not an atypical episode regretted and punished, but official policy endorsed and upheld. —  Think Progress
 

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  1. Back-formation from extradition.

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  1. Formed from extradition, as if from Latin ex + traditus, past participle of tradere: see extradition.
 

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/ˈɛkstrədaɪt/
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