Example : if Country A has no laws against blasphemy, double criminality could prevent a suspect being extradited from Country A to face blasphemy charges in another country.
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"' Double criminality "'( also known as "'dual criminality "') is a requirement in the extradition law of many trial for breaking a second country's laws " only " when a similar law exists in the extraditing country.
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Another of his works on extradition law, " Canadian Extradition Law Practice ", which has gone through five editions, contains broader criticisms of Canada's network of extradition treaties, in particular of the erosion of the double criminality requirement.
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Muntarbhorn urged all countries to make prosecutions easier by scrapping the " double criminality " principle whereby the offense has to be classed as a crime in both the home of the sex tourist and the scene of the incident.
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Under the EAW Framework Decision, the requirement for double criminality is removed for a wide range of categories of crimes, and made a discretionary rather than a compulsory ground for a refusal to extradite for offences not falling within those categories.
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