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Mansa Musa was the ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa. Details recorded here should be sourced; unknown information is left blank.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
Extradition is the formal legal process by which one jurisdiction surrenders a person accused or convicted of a crime to another jurisdiction where the crime occurred for the purposes of prosecution or punishment. It is a cooperative law enforcement procedure between the two jurisdictions, and depends on the arrangements made between them. In addition to legal aspects of the process, extradition also involves the physical transfer of custody of the person being extradited to the legal authority of the requesting jurisdiction. In an extradition process, one sovereign jurisdiction makes a formal request to another sovereign jurisdiction ("the requested state"). If the fugitive is found within the territory of the requested state, then the requested state may arrest the fugitive and subject them to its extradition process. The extradition procedures to which the fugitive will be subjected are dependent on the law and practice of the requested state. Between countries, extradition is normally regulated by treaties. Where extradition is compelled by laws, such as among sub-national jurisdictions, the concept may be known more generally as rendition. It is an ancient mechanism, dating back to at least the 13th century BCE, when an Egyptian pharaoh, Ramesses II, negotiated an extradition treaty with a Hittite king, Hattusili III.
This list of United States extradition treaties includes 116 countries. The first U.S. extradition treaty was with Ecuador, in force from 1873. The most recent U.S. extradition treaty is with Croatia, in force from 2022. The United States does not have an extradition treaty with China, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vietnam, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, most African states, and most former Soviet states, among others. Some countries with US extradition treaties have refused to extradite, including Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, Iceland, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. Legend Type L: List treaty Type DC: Dual criminality treaty
The European Convention on Extradition is a multilateral treaty on extradition drawn in 1957 up by the member states of the Council of Europe and in force between all of them. The convention is also available for signature by non-members which as of January 2012 are Chile, Israel, Russia, South Africa and South Korea. Prior to the introduction of the European Arrest Warrant, the Convention governed extradition between member states of the European Union. There are 4 additional protocols to the convention that vary the conditions signed up to by individual states.
Extradition in the Philippines may come into effect when the Philippine government and a foreign government sign an agreement through a treaty to be ratified by both parties. Extradition in the Philippines is regulated by a combination of national laws, including relevant provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code and specific statutes, as well as international agreements. The process begins when a foreign government submits a formal request to extradite a suspect or convicted individual to the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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