Germany’s Constitutional Court will extradite a Danish doctor and vaccine researcher to the United States. His lawyers warn he could become the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
The U.S. seeks the extradition of a Danish researcher
In June last year, the Danish doctor Poul Bak Thorsen was arrested by German police during a passport check on a train that had just crossed the German-Austrian border. He has since been held in pretrial detention in Germany and is now set to be extradited to the United States, which has issued an arrest warrant for the Danish doctor. Foto: Claus Nørregaard/POLITIKEN
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A Danish doctor and researcher, Poul Bak Thorsen, apparently risks becoming a Danish casualty of the political pressure the Trump administration has increasingly exerted on the American justice system.
That is the fear of the doctor’s Danish and German lawyers in a case in which Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe last Friday made a final decision to reject the attorneys’ appeal to protect the Dane from extradition to what they warn would be a questionable legal process in the United States.
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