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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Oliver Letwin (Conservative), on Thursday, 5 December 2002, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 42 members in total.


EXTRADITION BILL

That this House expresses its concerns at proposals in the Extradition Bill allowing British citizens to be extradited for offences that are not criminal in the UK; believes that extradition should only apply to serious offences to guard against thousands of individuals being sent abroad for very minor or trivial offences; further believes that the list of offences in the Bill that can give rise to extradition is too vague and too wide and includes unacceptably ambiguous offences such as computer related crime; and further believes that the passage of the Bill represents a serious and unwarranted attack on the civil liberties of all those resident in the United Kingdom.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
301 
Session
2002-03
Subjects
Arrests Extradition Human rights International cooperation
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk