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Boatswain concerned about enforcing reciprocity clause in extradition treaties

This story was posted 2 years ago
28 August 2020
in Law
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Anthony Boatswain
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by Linda Straker

  • Grenada 2020 Extradition Bill seeks to amend 1998 principal legislation
  • Boatswain called for classification of crimes that can be considered extraditable

Though supporting the Bill, government backbencher Anthony Boatswain, on Friday expressed his concerns about the impact extradition treaties can have on the criminal justice system of small islands when requests are made to return persons to face justice systems.

“We know for a fact that some countries will not extradite their citizens to another country where the death penalty is in place when they themselves do not have the death penalty,” Boatswain told the sitting of the House of Representatives while deliberating on the Grenada 2020 Extradition Bill which seeks to amend the 1998 principal legislation.

“What might be considered a criminal offence in one country may not be considered a criminal offence in another country,” he said, calling for the classification of crimes that can be considered extraditable.

The 1998 legislation provides for an extradition offence to be a criminal offence in which the penalty is beyond 5 years, but the 2020 amendment provides for a reduction to 1 year.

Boatswain said that his biggest concern with the enforcement of extradition is the section under reciprocity. “It happens there is a lack of reciprocity when countries consider themselves to be big.” He pointed out that bigger countries demand, and smaller nations comply with their extradition requests, but they fail to comply when small islands make a similar demand. “Some countries bully smaller countries and when they refuse, they use other powers to have their way.” He referred to a recent incident in a northern regional territory where a US citizen returned to the US after being charged with an indictable offence. The US authorities are not complying with the request of the small nation to have its citizen return to face the justice system.

Government has to amend the 1998 legislation because it is not in agreement with extradition treaties which provide for a criminal offence of 12 months. Research has confirmed that Grenada’s extradition treaty with the US which was signed in 2001, and with China which was signed 2018, are not in harmony with the 1998 legislation. Government has lost at least one recent matter in the local court because of the failure to harmonise the bilateral treaty with the national law.

Members of the House of Representatives approved the Bill which will now have to be approved by the Senate before becoming enforceable law.

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  1. TJoyette says:
    2 years ago

    Mr. Boatswain I agree with you the level of crime should be of a major scale to trigger any extradition treaty signed by Grenada. For instance, a communist nation considers talking bad about their regime to be punishable with many years in prison. Can China ask Grenada to turn over one of its citizens for frivolous crimes like this. Well who knows because China is trying to take over the tourism industry (calling it investment). They may get these things pass very easily if no one cares.

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  2. Alexander says:
    2 years ago

    Mr. Boatswin, can this law if amended, be a applied Ex post facto be to a senator currently sitting in the upper chamber vis-a-vis the United States. Just reminiscing.

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