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Maybe I am getting this wrong but that is not the opposite.

I think OP said: An UK citizen can be extradicted from the UK to the US just by having done a thing that it is illegal in the US but not in the UK.

You said: An US citizen can be charged in the US if he committed a crime abroad even if that thing is not typified as illegal in the US.

Wake me up when an US citizen is extradicted to the UK because he did something perfectly legal in Washington but which is considered a crime in London.

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>Wake me up when an US citizen is extradicted to the UK because he did something perfectly legal in Washington but which is considered a crime in London.

If it were the case, I suppose tens of millions of US people could be extradited that way given the differences in free speech laws - a lot of what is said in US is probably a crime [IANAL] in UK :)

Yeah, I think that's the point Ostrogodsky is making. It's weird to evaluate someone's action in country A based on laws in country B.

Heck, are we forgetting Anne Sacoolas' case? She committed a hit and run, which is a crime in both the US and the UK, yet she hasn't been extradited.

UK's sovereignty is a joke.

According to the home office: wake up. 7 US citizens have been extradited to the UK for breaking UK law as of 2011.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/100739/response/25520...

That says nothing about whether what they did was also illegal in the US which I think was his distinction.

I think it must be difficult to find something that fits that distinction out of all major cases, basically the things that are illegal and not misdemeanors in one western democracy are probably illegal in the others - the only thing that jumps to mind are laws related to fascism in Germany.

He also provided 0 citations to people being extradited from the UK for a crime in the US that isn't a crime in the UK. Reading the actual content of the agreement in question I can't find anything remotely close to that text in it.

https://fas.org/irp/world/uk/extradite.pdf

The story itself is about a person who committed a crime that is a crime in both locations so...

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