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Extradition and Political Crimes: The Use of the Political Offence Exception in Europe

Extradition and Political Crimes: The Use of the Political Offence Exception in Europe

Author: Sibel Top
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032546230
Published In: February 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book examines the evolution and current application of the political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe.

The long-standing academic exploration of terrorism has recently given way to renewed interest in the political offence exception to extradition, prompted by recent events that signal a democratic downturn globally. Despite the significant curtailment – and in some cases, the complete abolition – of the political offence exception to extradition in Europe, certain European states continue to quietly implement this exception to deny extradition requests. This work studies the development of the political offence exception in Europe by narrowing its focus from an international perspective to the European context, specifically examining the Council of Europe and the European Union, before zeroing in on the Catalan independence crisis, which offers a particularly valuable case for analysing the application of the political offence exception in the European context.

By providing a detailed examination of the evolving protections for political offenders within European legal frameworks, the text updates the long overdue academic knowledge on the matter. It is therefore an essential resource for anyone interested in European criminal law and extradition in particular. It will also be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of Criminal law, Human Rights Law, Legal Theory, Criminology and Political Science.

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 Council of Europe Conventions.

4. Evolution of the political offence exception in the European Union 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 contex

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