Last Change:
06/24/2025
Extradition Act
Year: 1965
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Asylum
Description
In Tanzania, the Extradition Act (Cap 368 R.E 2002) governs the legal framework for returning individuals to their country or another country where they are accused or convicted of a crime, covering procedures from arrest to hearing and evidence
Selected provisions
Subject to the provisions of section 17, a fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered and no person arrested under Part III of this Act shall be returned if the-
(a) offence in respect of which his surrender is required or the offence specified in the warrant, as the case may be, is one of a political character or if it appears that the requisition for
the surrender, or the application for endorsement of a warrant and the return of the person named in it, has in fact been made with
a view to try or to punish him for an offence of a political character;