TREATMENT OF EXTRADITED PERSONS AND THEIR RIGHTS DURING PROCEDURES ON INTERNATIONAL JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN CRIMINAL MATTERS

Abstract

Role and respect for human rights in international law, is of particular significance. Human rights and fundamental freedoms have traditionally been treated with internal legal acts and over time their treatment and respect made the responsibility also based on international law. The importance and the respect of the human rights of citizens in different stages during their arrest make this process even more important. Large mobility of citizens in our time from one place to another place, except the good things has created the circumstances that citizens of different nationalities to commit different criminal offenses. In this process, different persons can be arrested by a state and to handed over in another state. States during international legal cooperation in criminal issues faced with conditions and proceedings which in the context of treatment of persons can also come to the violation or injury of the rights of extradited persons. During their arrest and in subsequent stages these persons are subject to the treatment of the competent state bodies. Therefore arises the needs also of the treatment and respect for their basic rights at all stages until their handover to the state which required. The issues as discrimination and standards of human rights during the process of extradition of a wanted person for the purposes of prosecution or punishment because of race, religion, gender, nationality, political opinion, ethnicity, language, hendicapped, sexual orientation, will be treated in detail in this paperwork. Regulation of the proceedings and their respect for the cathegory of these persons that are trated based on international convention and legal internal acts is a factor of enforcement of international standards.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n19p564