Extradition in the UAE is organized by a specific law for judicial cooperation called Law No. 39 of 2006. However, this law might not be applied if there was an extradition treaty between UAE and other countries, since I covered the judicial cooperation law in my previous articles I will start in my next series of articles covering extradition under different types of treaties, bearing in mind that the UAE signed extradition treaties with multiple countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, India, China, United Kingdom, Armenia, Sudan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Australia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Spain and many other countries.
The United Arab Emirates is a signatory of the Riyadh Arab Convention on Judicial Cooperation for Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. In addition, the UAE has entered into bilateral treaties for judicial cooperation with the United Kingdom, France, India, Pakistan, Iran, Australia, China, Egypt, Kazakhstan etc.
Extradition in common language, is understood as the process under which one country, on the request of another country, returns a requested person, to the requested country, based on crimes committed by the requested person in the requesting country, subject to meeting conditions as set out in the law or applicable treaties.
The United Arab Emirates is a signatory of the Riyadh Arab Convention on Judicial cooperation for Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco.
Extradition process is subject to regional and international law. It refers to an action wherein one sovereign jurisdiction (requested State) delivers a person either acquitted or convicted of an international crime to the law enforcement of another jurisdiction (requesting State) upon their official request
An extradition request can be understood as an action where one sovereign jurisdiction requests another jurisdiction to deliver to the former country, a person accused or convicted of specified crimes, located in the requested country. Acceptance of an extradition request involves transferring the physical custody of the accused person to the legal authority of the requesting jurisdiction.
The requests for extradition are issued by a requesting country to another country (generally referred to as Requested Country) for returning an accused who has flown to Requested country post committing a crime in the Requesting Country.
Extradition requests are made in accordance with international conventions, bilateral treaties or special agreements entered by two countries to extradite the alleged criminal.
Where the proposal has already been sent by the requesting party, Interpol will arrest the suspect and produce him to the Public Prosecution within 48 hours of his arrest.
Investigations have been carried out, the custody period ends and the requesting country fails to ask for the suspect back.
The crime must be considered an offense, be punishable in both countries and punishment must be imprisonment
Dr. Hassan Elhais makes a simple and clear summary of the requirements of extradition in the UAE.
The head Interpol officer is elected by a two/third majority of the delegate.
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