In order for the USA to petition a UK court for extradition, the alleged crime MUST be also a crime in the UK. Typically, the charged person will raise that his case is “political” and judges, agents of governments, will usually dismiss it out of hand even when they know it is …………………….
USA Wants Britain to Hand over Assange on Pretended Computer Hacking & Will Keep Manning in Prison until She Agrees to Testify Against him
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus