Extradition

Judge refuses to let Assange leave secure dock in courtroom

LONDON (AP) — A British judge refused Thursday to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange move from a glass-enclosed dock a...
17:38 27 February 2022

Hero or criminal? Court hears 2 views of WikiLeaks’ Assange

LONDON (AP) — Truth-telling journalist or reckless criminal: A British judge was given two conflicting portraits of Juli...
16:48 24 February 2022

US to lay out case against Assange at extradition hearing

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. government and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face off Monday in a high-security London co...
14:16 23 February 2022

Marchers support Assange ahead of London extradition hearing

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London on Saturday to pressure the U.K. governmen...
16:38 22 February 2022

Lawyer: Assange was offered US pardon if he cleared Russia

LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Julian Assange said Wednesday that the WikiLeaks founder plans to claim during his extraditio...
18:32 19 February 2022

Huawei exec’s extradition hearing begins in Canada

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei begins Monday in a Vanc...
8:27 20 January 2022

Protests take toll on Hong Kong tourism

HONG KONG — Visitor numbers to Hong Kong fell by nearly 40% in the second half of last year amid clashes between police and anti-government protesters...
11:11 15 January 2022

Panel: Alleged pedophile wanted by Australia fit for trial

JERUSALEM — An Israeli psychiatric panel has determined that a woman facing dozens of sex-abuse charges in Australia is fit to stand trial for extradi...
16:05 9 January 2022

Drawn-out sex crimes case rattles Israel-Australia ties

JERUSALEM — Nicole Meyer endured years of sexual abuse allegedly at the hands of her former school principal. She’s had to watch as her alleged abuser...
6:06 28 December 2022

Greece: Bitcoin fraud suspect to be extradited to France

Greece's justice minister has signed an order for bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik to be extradited to France — concluding an international lega...
14:52 20 December 2021

China urges rollback of US tariffs, Huawei exec’s release

BEIJING — China’s foreign ministry on Monday urged Canada to free an executive of telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies held for more than a yea...
10:58 2 December 2021

Sweden drops Assange rape investigation after 9 years

STOCKHOLM — Sweden on Tuesday dropped its investigation into an alleged rape by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently in prison in Britai...
15:26 19 November 2021

Spain says ex-Venezuelan spy chief wanted by US is missing

MADRID — Spanish police said Wednesday they have been unable to locate a Venezuelan former spymaster wanted by the United States for extradition on ch...
11:41 13 November 2021

US-British diplomatic clash in store over Caribbean killing?

HARTFORD, Conn. — Officials in Anguilla are preparing a warrant for the arrest of a Connecticut man who refused to return to the Caribbean island to f...
20:18 12 November 2021

Q&A: How a woman’s death got tangled in Hong Kong politics

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Around Valentine's Day last year, the decomposing body of a pregnant Hong Kong woman, 21-year-old Poon Hiu-wing, turned up in the tal...
9:36 23 October 2021

Hong Kong government withdraws bill that sparked protests

HONG KONG — Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday withdrew an unpopular extradition bill that sparked months of chaotic protests that have since morphed ...
7:22 23 October 2021