Word: polaski
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...crime. It's often a lengthy and complicated procedure whose specifics are determined through treaties signed by individual governments. Generally, extraditions apply only crimes that exist in both countries, and to people hiding out in nations other than their own. (Governments almost never surrender their own citizens, hence Polaski's ability to evade arrest for over 30 years.) Political crimes are rarely extraditable because countries don't want to be accused of aiding a coup or opposing a foreign regime. In 1934, an Italian court refused to extradite the assassins of Yugoslavia's King Alexander, on the grounds that...