A Comparative Study of the Extradition of Criminals in Iranian and Afghan Legal Systems

Abstract

The criminals and crimes are no longer confined to nations' internal borders in this modern age. Criminals immediately flee from one country to another, disturbing human societies' security and order as well as stealing peace of mind. Unfortunately, this problem has come to gradually become a grave international issue, engaging all countries, due to the advancement in the transport industry and the ease with which criminals can be transported across countries. With the intention of instilling justice and justice in societies and with the intent to make offenders and criminals punishable—on the other hand, for not giving any protection to criminals in any state—states recognizing the importance of this matter, have worked increasingly on the issue of the need to extradite criminals as an element in tandem with other jurisprudence and judiciary matters. They seek to solve this issue by entering into bilateral or multilateral extradition agreements. For this, sensible individuals across the globe have agreed long ago that effective warfare against crime is only possible when all governments cooperate and assist one another and create channels to fight such forms of criminality as a group. Afghanistan and Iran, being two friendly and neighboring countries, signed an extradition treaty a long time ago and both have enacted some laws on extradition. In this article, based on a comparative analysis, an attempt has been made to discuss and analyze the terms and provisions of extradition of criminals in the legal systems of Afghanistan and Iran.