Title: European Court of Human Rights and Italian extradition

Date: 07/15/2007

Subject: The Author presents the complex case of a Moroccan citizen who, after having been acquitted for the crime of terrorist association, has been extradited in Morocco because he was condemned in absentia for the same crime. The author criticizes the behaviour of the Italian Government and the decisions on extradition of the Court of Cassation and of the ECHR.

Original language: Italian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 19 Extradition - Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing - Right to be advised, defended, and represented - Art. 50 Right not to be tried or punished twice in criminal proceedings for the same criminal offence

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