TERRORISM AND EXTRADITION IN BELGIAN LAW (FROM REFLECTIONS ON THE DEFEINTION AND REPRESSION OF TERRORISM - SEE NCJ-30533)

• NCJ Number: 30539
• Author(s): R COCHARD
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 22 pages
• Corporate Author: Universite Libre de Bruxelles
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: French
• Country: Belgium
• Note: PAPER PRESENTED AT CONFERENCE, FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS, MARCH 19-20, 1973, AND TRANSLATED IN NCJRS INTERNATIONAL SUMMARIES - VOL. 3 (NCJ 57197).

Annotation

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BELGIAN LEGISLATION ON THE EXTRADITION OF POLITICAL REFUGEES, CITING SPECIFIC CASES.

Abstract

THE LAW OF OCTOBER 1, 1833, BARRED THE EXTRADITION OF POLITICAL REFUGEES. UNDER PRESSURE FROM FRANCE, THIS WAS ALTERED ON MARCH 22, 1856, AND EXTRADITION OF THOSE GUILTY OF ATTACKING THE PERSON OF A CHIEF OF STATE WAS AUTHORIZED. IN 1833, BELGIUM DENIED POLITICAL REFUGEE STATUS TO A FRENCH ANARCHIST AND EXTRADITED HIM. THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS INSTITUTING AN INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION JURISDICTION, SO THAT NATIONS CALLED UPON TO EXTRADITE SOMEONE WOULD NO LONGER FIND THEMSELVES IN THE ILLOGICAL POSITION OF HAVING TO ACT BOTH AS A JUDGE AND AN INTERESTED PARTY AT THE SAME TIME. --IN FRENCH