Russian President Vladimir Putin rounded on Britain and other states Wednesday for granting political asylum to people considered terrorists by the Russian legal system in a speech calling for rapid extradition procedures. “It is hard for us to understand how it is that people accused of terrorism are not extradited but are instead given political asylum,” Putin said in an address to a conference of European prosecutors held under Russia’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe. “Prosecutors should come up with unified, equal standards” for extradition, Putin said. | I'd say Poot's got a pretty good point there. A bad guy's a bad guy, whether Vanessa Redgrave puts him up or not... |
“If there are any blanks we will fill them,” Russia’s Prosecutor General Yury Chaika told reporters on the sidelines of the conference in reference to the Russian legal case for the extradition of Zakayev and Berezovsky. “We are setting up a working group that will be ready by the end of July,” Chaika said. In his speech at the conference, Chaika said: “In agreement with our British colleagues we have decided... to resolve problems linked to extradition to Russia.”