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Another example of RCMP and CSISs glorious due diligence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.H.M.B_Noor_Chowdhury

This guy killed the President of Bangladesh and most of his family (women and children included) and is now a guest of Canada and is refused extradition based on a technicality.

I don't condone extra-judiciary killings but Canada absolutely has and continue to harbor criminals.

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Hard to find the info, but seems like the guy got sentenced to death in absentia.

From what I can tell, Canada can’t constitutionally extradite when a death sentence is on the table.

Not much of a technicality. Not a guest of Canada either, but nowhere to deport him to. Bangladeshi judges basically made this guy unreturnable to Bangladesh.

Probably also fair-trial concerns in any conviction in absentia. Kinda surprised another common-law country allows that as Canada doesn’t.

This isn't even particularly unusual. Most of Europe can't or won't extradite people when a death sentence is a possibility for basically the same reason, including to the US - the only way for the US to get an extradition is through a binding agreement that the person being extradited cannot be sentenced to death. Actually, the Canadian Supreme Court case which found this to be unconstitutional seems to have involved an extradition to the US from what I can tell...

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