The term extradition refers to a judicial procedure, whether criminal or administrative, that is applied to a person who is involved in a crime that is in accordance with the laws of a country “A” , and who is arrested in a country "B" , country "B" is obliged to send him back to country "A" to be prosecuted for his crimes, as long as an extradition agreement has been signed between both countries (AYB), but not he is obliged to grant it.
For a country to request the extradition of a person from another, it must first meet certain requirements, one of them is that the requesting country really demonstrate the reasons that prompted it to bring the accused to trial, and that the offense or crime committed is standardized in the laws of both countries, no person will be extradited to those countries where the death penalty is implemented as punishment.
The extradition may be activated when the requesting country makes the request to the country where the accused is. Extradition will be passive when it falls to the country that has the requested person. One of the limitations of extradition is when it is requested for natural persons of the requested country, no country will allow another State to take one of its inhabitants to be prosecuted, there are only 7 countries that have signed an agreement to extradite their patriots and are Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, the United States, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.
