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Germany Blocks Al Jazeera Extradition

Posted on 23rd June 2015

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All is right with the world. Germany is, after all, at least as bureaucratic as I thought. This BBC story reports that a court decision has blocked the extradition of the Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Mansour.

The real proof of bureaucracy is that it was necessary for a court to make this decision. I would have hoped that the police could make the decision that the extradition request or the regime requesting it did not meet the necessary standards, and a court would only need to be involved if Egypt lodged an appeal, but that is not how things work in Germany.

Still, in the event, the German authorities did finally say all the right things about the case. Germany's moral integrity is intact, along with their status in the world bureaucracy rankings.