to prosecute a person after they have fled the U.S. or broke laws while out-side the U.S., they will need to be brought to the U.S.. The U.S. will need another country to ex-tradite the person back to the U.S. Once the person is back in the. U.S. they can be processed through the legal system. The U.S. does have an extradition treaty with over 100 countries to help facilitate the extradition. (GPO 2002) Even if a country is part of the extradition treaty it doesn't mean extradition will always happen. Soering v United Kingdom 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) (1989) is an example of an extra-dition not happening with a country. (ECtHR 1989) The European Court of Human Rights (EC-tHR) found that extraditing Jen Soering violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Hu-man Rights (ECHR) guaranteeing the right against inhuman and degrading treatment. The Unit-ed Kingdom and the U.S. have a extradition treaty but if the UK complied with the treaty it would have violated European …show more content…
The U.S. was attached by Al Qaeda and was organized out of the caves in Afghanistan. (History 207) The U.S. started Operation Enduring Freedom, which involved many different countries invading one. The Taliban were ruling Afghanistan and protecting Al Qaeda. This was deemed a threat to global security and led to the war, which overthrew the Taliban and also tracked down Al Qaeda. The U.S. used Guantanamo Bay as a prison for suspected terrorists that were deemed as terrorists and to be tried for violating U.S. laws. (CNN 2015) This is an extreme case of the U.S. tracking people down internationally to prosecute