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![handle is hein.journals/merko37 and id is 1 raw text is: UTRECHT JOURNAL OF
INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW
]U[ubiquity press
Under the 'one country, two systems' policy, the surrender of fugitive offenders between
Mainland China and Hong Kong has been debated. This article will frame the debate
on the application of traditional extradition rules in Mainland China and Hong Kong by
exploring the more recent 'European Arrest Warrant' system and the long-standing US
interstate rendition system. It thus aims to find a suitable model for Mainland China and
Hong Kong. The US interstate rendition system is one domestic system, which seems
most appropriate for application to Mainland China and Hong Kong as two regions of
the same country. However, this article finds that the US interstate rendition system
is too direct and inflexible to be enacted by Mainland China and Hong Kong where the
legal situation is more complicated and human rights protection differs. This article
argues that the European Arrest Warrant can better address the 'one country, two
systems' situation of Mainland China and Hong Kong. Mainland China and Hong Kong
can learn from the European Arrest Warrant to apply the 'mutual recognition principle'
and other concrete extradition principles to their own surrender system.
Yanhong Yin
PhD Researcher, Faculty of Law
and Criminology, VUBrussels,
Belgium
Extradition; European Arrest
Warrant; Hong Kong; Mainland
China; Surrender; US Interstate
Rendition
Yin, Y, 'The Surrender of
Fugitive Offenders between
Mainland China and Hong
Kong: European Arrest Warrant
Model or US Interstate
Rendition Model?' (2022)
37(1) Utrecht Journal of
International and European
Law pp. 1-19. DOI:](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/merko37&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)