CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA   |   7905

Article 491: Non-admissibility of the request for extradition

1Extradition may not be granted:

afor an offence of political nature or when it results that it is requested for political reasons;

bwhen there are grounds to think that the requested person shall be subject to persecution or discrimination due to race, religion, sex, citizenship, language, political belief, personal or social state or cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment or acts which constitute violation of fundamental human rights;

cwhen the requested person has committed a criminal offence in Albania;

çwhen the proceeding is initiated or tried in Albania, although the offence is committed abroad;

dwhen the criminal offence is not foreseen as such by the Albanian legislation;

dhthe Albanian State has issued an amnesty for this criminal offence;

ewhen the requested person is Albanian citizen and there is no agreement providing otherwise;

ëwhen criminal prosecution or the punishment is prescribed under the law of the requested state.

fwhen the requested person is tried in absentia, except in case the requesting State provides safeguards for the revision of the decision.

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