§7402 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

It bans using federal money to send a U.S. citizen to any country that is required to hand people over to the International Criminal Court, unless that country tells the U.S. that laws will stop it from sending the person on to the Court again or gives other reliable promises it will not transfer the person to the Court. It also bans using federal money to agree to a foreign country sending a U.S. citizen to a third country that must surrender people to the Court, unless that third country gives the same kinds of assurances. International Criminal Court — defined elsewhere in the law.

Title 22, §7402

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(a)None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other Act may be used to extradite a United States citizen to a foreign country that is under an obligation to surrender persons to the International Criminal Court unless that foreign country confirms to the United States that applicable prohibitions on reextradition apply to such surrender or gives other satisfactory assurances to the United States that the country will not extradite or otherwise transfer that citizen to the International Criminal Court.

(b)None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other Act may be used to provide consent to the extradition or transfer of a United States citizen by a foreign country to a third country that is under an obligation to surrender persons to the International Criminal Court, unless the third country confirms to the United States that applicable prohibitions on reextradition apply to such surrender or gives other satisfactory assurances to the United States that the third country will not extradite or otherwise transfer that citizen to the International Criminal Court.

(c)In this section, the term “International Criminal Court” has the meaning given the term in section 7401(c) of this title.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly set out as a note under section 262–1 of this title.

§7402 Prohibition on extradition or transfer of United States citizens to the International Criminal Court

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Title 22, §7402

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