[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3346 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3346

    To give effect to the norms of international law forbidding the 
   abduction of persons from foreign places in order to try them for 
                           criminal offenses.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 1993

 Mr. Gonzalez submitted the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To give effect to the norms of international law forbidding the 
   abduction of persons from foreign places in order to try them for 
                           criminal offenses.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``International Kidnapping and 
Extradition Treaty Enforcement Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PROSECUTION OF UNLAWFULLY ABDUCTED PERSONS.

    (a) In General.--A person who is forcibly abducted from a foreign 
place which has in effect an extradition treaty with the United 
States--
            (1) by the agents of a governmental authority in the United 
        States for the purposes of a criminal prosecution; and
            (2) in violation of the norms of international law; shall 
        not be subject to prosecution by any governmental authority in 
        the United States.
    (b) Foreign Governmental Consent.--An abduction is not, for the 
purposes of this section, a violation of the norms of international law 
if the government of the foreign place consents to that abduction, but 
such consent may not be implied by the absence of a prohibition on such 
abductions in a treaty regarding extradition.

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