#extradition law

[lasseling]

UK Police Threaten to Extradite US Citizens Who Violate ‘Orwellian’ Online Speech Laws

British police are threatening to charge and extradite citizens of other countries including the United States who they feel have violated their online speech laws even if the individual lives in a country that respects freedom of speech.

[soath]

vox machina: half of a coed secret society currently facing university crackdown due to excessive rowdiness and flagpole scaling get a sizable townhouse; there they handle lizard escapes, child support requests, police scrutiny, many villainous professors, and members who won't stop getting engaged to each other.

the mighty nein: paranoid houseboat owners renting the absolutely cheapest moorings at a marina in a midsized european canal city band together against judgemental neighbors/local boat safety inspections/the concept of decay/ecosystem degradation in their waterways/their own dark pasts/two art-student ass cults; against all odds succeed at everything.

bell’s hells: posters on a queer housing page in toronto pack 6-11 people (depending on the day) into a two bedroom; ping-pong between icily polite spy warfare and cloying codependence, all while ostensibly working together to save a critically endangered species of salamander—end up involved in years old industrial drama opposing their friend’s shady mining corporation mom.

[nando161mando]

Reminder that Donald Trump was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Yemen's Saada region for crimes against humanity...

Extradition when????

[panicinthestudio]

Former Hong Kong bookstore begins new chapter in upstate New York, July 30, 2024

From 2021 to 2022, Hong Kong experienced its biggest population drop since record-keeping began more than 60 years ago. Tens of thousands left because of strict COVID-19 policies and a crackdown on civil liberties by Beijing. Special correspondent Christopher Booker spent time with an American couple part of this exodus and reports on their journey for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour

[birlwrites]

imagine sometime in one of the dark lord au futures where barty and evan try to arrange for regulus to go on a vacation. they contact some old aristocrat in some country regulus has minimal ties to to borrow an estate or something, so no one in the vicinity will get him involved in more politics/plots/etc. it backfires because whichever auror is assigned to watching them at the time gets the wrong idea. an international incident almost occurs. evan just wanted a romantic getaway.

SJFLSJFLSHGLSHGLSHGLJHDKFHSF

it was difficult enough to persuade regulus to leave britain for a WEEK and now THIS and he's gotten it into his head that whenever he attempts to relax THE GOVERNMENT WILL GET INVOLVED and IT WAS A REALLY NICE CASTLE OKAY

[kesarijournal]

"We’re Coming for You": The UK Police Chief's Threat to Jail Americans Over Social Media Posts – A Legal and Diplomatic Nightmare

In a startling and alarming turn of events, the UK’s top police official has allegedly threatened to prosecute Americans for their online social media posts. Yes, you read that right—Americans, sitting comfortably in their own homes across the Atlantic, could potentially face jail time in the UK for exercising their First Amendment rights. This isn’t the plot of a dystopian novel; it’s a chilling…

[the-final-sif]

I feel like there's two parts to the no fly list leak that are getting overlooked right now

1) the person in question has the handle "maia arson crimew" meaning media outlets have to cite "crimew" as the person they're quoting, which is amazing.

2) From everything I've read, crimew didn't actually commit a crime (in this case at least). According to crimew, the no-fly list was discovered on a publicly accessible server, totally unsecured. crimew was using Shodan which is a totally legal tool regularly used by a lot of the security community for research. Schools use and provide access to Shodan, it's a normal tool. Nothing crimew was doing was out of the ordinary. Her access and use of the file was most likely legal (or at least next to impossible to prosecute), given that it was publicly accessible.

crimew even notified CommuteAir of the data vulnerability. Which prevented more sensitive data from leaking, and was absolutely a sign of acting in good faith. Her obligation to even do that is a pretty gray area, but she did it anyways.

Now, crimew has gotten charged by the US in the past for other things, however, Swiss citizens cannot be extradited against their will. So the proceedings were suspended. She could only be charged under Swiss law, and given that the data is/was publicly accessible and the exposure was for public good, that's very unlikely to happen.

The people actually getting investigated by congress/the FBI/the TSA are the idiots at CommuteAir that were hosting the no fly list on an unsecured publicly accessible server. They're the ones who actually get in trouble for failing to have followed basic security protocols. They're the ones who had a legal obligation to safe guard that data, and they're the ones who fucked up.

[reasonandempathy]

Walz has served as Minnesota’s governor since 2019 after 12 years in the House of Representatives and now chairs the Democratic Governors Association. He has built a reputation as a folksy politician who can get things done, as Minnesota has adopted a number of progressive laws during his tenure. According to a poll conducted earlier this year, Walz enjoys an approval rating of 55% among Minnesotans. Since Minnesota Democrats achieved a legislative trifecta in the 2022 elections, Walz and his allies have used their power to push a slate of progressive policies. The governor has signed bills protecting abortion access, expanding background checks for prospective gun owners and legalizing recreational marijuana. “Right now, Minnesota is showing the country you don’t win elections to bank political capital,” Walz said last year. “You win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.” That philosophy has endeared him to progressives, who threw their support behind him as the veepstakes kicked into high gear over the past two weeks. They reshared clips of Walz lovingly mocking his daughter’s vegetarianism and tinkering with his car to paint him as the dad that America needs right now.

This is fucking awesome! Honestly, sincerely good news and a very promising pick for the potential Harris Administration. An aggressive, unabashed, popular, populist left-winger with a track record of enacting real, substantive help for people is capital-G Great.

What has he done, specifically?

Abortion rights

In a 1995 ruling, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Minnesota. In January 2023, Walz signed the PRO Act (Protect Reproductive Options Act) into law, making abortion a "fundamental right," as well as access to contraception, fertility treatments, sterilization and other reproductive health care.

The law made Minnesota the first state to codify abortion rights in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which nullified Roe. v. Wade after nearly 50 years of precedent. In April 2023, Walz signed the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act into law, shielding women and providers from any legal action originating from the patient's state.

Pro-LGBTQIA+ legislation

In March 2023, Walz signed an executive order to protect the right of residents to have access to gender-affirming health care. Weeks later, he signed the "Trans Refuge" bill, banning the enforcement of arrest warrants, extradition requests and out-of-state subpoenas for those who traveled to Minnesota for care.

"When someone else is given basic rights, others don't lose theirs," Walz said. "We aren't cutting a pie here. We're giving basic rights to every single Minnesotan."

Paid family, medical and sick leave

In May 2023, Walz signed a law creating a state-run program to provide paid family and medical leave for Minnesota workers, funded by a 0.7% payroll tax on employers, by 2026.

Legalization of recreational marijuana

In May 2023, Minnesota became the 23rd state in the nation to legalize recreational cannabis use. Three months later, people 21 and older could start to possess certain amounts of marijuana at home and on their person, in addition to legally growing up to eight plants at a time.

Restoration of voting rights for former felons

In March 2023, Walz signed a bill that restored the right to vote to more than 50,000 convicted felons who had already served their time.

Universal school meals

Amid the increase in food insecurity for many Minnesotans during the pandemic, and the subsequent strain on the state's food shelves that remains to this day, Walz signed a bill in March 2023 that ensures all K-12 students in the state have access to free breakfast and lunch on school days.

Do you know what makes this even better?

Fuck 'Em. I know negative partisanship is important and can help motivate right-wingers to vote, but they're going to vote anyway. And him being afraid of Walz is just a sign that he's a good pick, in policy and politics.

[nyancrimew]

Do you think your race/nationality may influence on the consequences of hacking? Or like how far you can even get?

I'm asking because I very rarely see a "prominent" hackitvist that's not white European/USA

it is definitely a factor yes, especially with me, like the only reason im free rn is because switzerland doesn't extradite citizens. but another very big part of it is that to become a widely prominent hacktivist (and as with many other things) you either need to do things western media cares about or get in trouble with the law big time (in the west), which also usually implies being in a country that actively works together with primarily the US or other empires that actively and publicly work against hacking and hacktivists. there are lots of hacktivists in asia and latin america (specifically phineas fisher here also being a popular figure, who is believed to be in latam and has yet to be caught) as well especially (also elsewhere ofc but i dont know of as many), but they are either doing hacktivism within their communities which are usually not internationally that news worthy, or are out of reach enough for the US empire to never get unmasked.

in a lot of ways being a popular hacktivist as an individual is actually moreso a failing in staying safe from consequences by either you or people you work with (see in the history of lulzsec and most of the now well known anonymous figures in the US) or a conscious choice done out of the knowledge that you'll be relatively safe/recklessness. but i definitely feel like international (social) media bias towards western interests is also just a very big part of why you will mostly only ever hear of (assumed) white european/american hacktivists.

and also just as a quick closing note, i would not say that (even white) people in the US or the US sphere of influence are safe from consequences due to hacking in any way, the US is one of the strictest countries when it comes to persecuting hackers and goes to long ways to be as cruel as possible, and especially so with hacktivists. this goes so far that in the 2020 counterintel report the US government put hacktivists/leaktivists on the top 5 biggest threats to the US government, which is ofc both a honor (and shows it works and scares them) but is ofc also scary as fuck. it is this big spectacle they make out of persecuting hackers and making examples out of them that also leads to more of the very distorted prominence of western hackers.

[codewithcode]

Idaho slayings suspect agrees to extradition to face charges

Idaho slayings suspect agrees to extradition to face charges

STROUDSBURG, Pa. — A criminology graduate student accused of the November slayings of four University of Idaho students agreed Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week, to face charges in Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old doctoral student at Washington State University — a short drive from the scene of the killings across the state border — will be…

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I don't think the general public realizes exactly how much of Star Trek is about interplanetary extradition law.

[reportwire]

Mexico wants American extradited on charges in tourist death

Mexico wants American extradited on charges in tourist death

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Mexican prosecutors said Thursday they have filed charges against a U.S. woman on suspicion of killing another American seen being beaten in a viral video. Prosecutors in the state of Baja California Sur did not name the suspect in the Oct. 29 death of Shanquella Robinson. But they said they have approached Mexican federal prosecutors and diplomats to try to get the woman…

[nando161mando]

Mark Dreyfus is being called upon to intervene and allow the Australian father-of-six to remain here, after a Local Court Magistrate gave extradition the green light.

[panicinthestudio]

BBC紀錄片：香港的自由之戰 (上), December 17, 2022

2019年香港政府宣佈修訂《逃犯條例》，允許將犯罪嫌疑人由香港引渡至中國大陸。該法案在香港引發極大爭議，人們擔憂香港的自治將面臨威脅。 本片講述了四名參與城市大規模抗議，並對政府日漸失望的香港年輕人的故事。他們很快發現自己陷入了一場可能令城市四分五裂的暴力惡性循環。 片中使用了開創性的人工智能技術以保護示威者身份。 "In 2019, Hong Kong's government announced a bill amending the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, permitting criminal suspects to be extradited to the Mainland. This proposed law triggered enormous controversy, people were concerned Hong Kong's autonomy would face imminent threat. This documentary narrates the experience of four participants in the city's large scale protests, as well as a story of the progressive despair in the government among Hong Kong's youth. They quickly found themselves mired in a city deeply divided in a violent and vicious cycle. Innovative artificial intelligence techniques are employed in the film to protect the identities of demonstrators."

BBC紀錄片：香港的自由之戰 (下), January 2, 2023

2019年10月，在北京慶祝中華人民共和國成立70週年之際，香港正被暴力示威撕裂。本片使用了開創性的人工智能技術以保護示威者身份，講述了四名年輕香港人為了捍衛自己的生活方式，與當局展開了一場殘酷的鬥爭。 隨著警方的反應變得具有致命性，示威者們也以自己的暴力進行回應。家庭成員反目，城市四分五裂。但抗議者們認為他們在為自由而戰，並拒絕屈服。 警方連日包圍了一所大學校園，示威者們在沒有後援的情況下在此進行最後的抵抗。與此同時，北京正在醞釀一場即將永遠改變香港的打擊行動。 "In October 2019, as Beijing celebrated the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong was embroiled in violent protest. This film employs innovative artificial intelligence techniques to protect the identities of demonstrators, narrating the experiences of four participant Hong Kongers defending their way of life, as well as the authorities setting the stage for a brutal struggle. As the police's use of force turned deadly, demonstrators responded violence of their own. Family fell out, the city deeply divided. However protesters believe they fight for their freedom, refusing to yield. For days police surrounded a university campus, without reinforcements demonstrators were forced to make a final stand. Meanwhile, Beijing was mulling action that would change Hong Kong forever."

[mankavitlawacademy]

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[kesarijournal]

"We’re Coming for You": The UK Police Chief's Threat to Jail Americans Over Social Media Posts – A Legal and Diplomatic Nightmare

In a startling and alarming turn of events, the UK’s top police official has allegedly threatened to prosecute Americans for their online social media posts. Yes, you read that right—Americans, sitting comfortably in their own homes across the Atlantic, could potentially face jail time in the UK for exercising their First Amendment rights. This isn’t the plot of a dystopian novel; it’s a chilling…