Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/25
By: Wang Yang-yu and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, March 25 (CNA) Taiwan is willing to work through a mutual legal assistance
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mechanism with Hong Kong so that a Hong Kong man suspected of killing his girlfriend in Taiwan can be prosecuted for the crime rather than go free, two Taiwanese judicial officials have said.
Because the alleged crime was committed in Taiwan, Hong Kong does not have jurisdiction in the case unless it can prove the man had planned the crime in Hong Kong.
That means the suspect, who has returned to Hong Kong after allegedly killing his girlfriend in Taiwan in February, will not be “sentenced” for the crime if he is not extradited to Taiwan to stand trial.
Extradition is highly unlikely because Taiwan and Hong Kong have not signed an extradition treaty. [FULL STORY]
