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extradition  

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  • Extradition is an action of international cooperation in handing over a person accused of criminal activities. In this process one sovereign state delivers an accused criminal or fugitive to another sovereign state at the request of the latter state. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Extradition]

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