9 Extradition 10 Asylum : The term extradition denotes the process whereby, under treaty or upon a basis of reciprocity, one state surrenders to another state at its request a person accused or convicted of a criminal offence committed against the laws of the requesting state, such requesting state having jurisdiction. The rationale behind the law and practice of extradition is as follows:

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Article 14, Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 provides that: 1 Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from

persecution. 2 This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising

from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.