DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
A United States District Court Magistrate Judge has set down for hearing on 28 August a governmental request to extradite General Manuel Noriega to France to be tried on money laundering charges there. Noriega is scheduled to be released from US custody in September, having then served two-thirds of his twenty-year sentence. The general's attorneys have taken the position that he must be returned to the country where he was captured during hostilities, Panama, pursuant to the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, because the court, speaking through US District Judge William Hoeveler, declared him a POW in 1992.
Noriega may feel he will receive better treatment in Panama than in France, where he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years. Reportedly, Panamanian law would require his release to home confinement from any sentence imposed there when he became 75 years old; he is 72 now.
We will update our readers after these hearings.
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Readers who have not read our previous article may want to review it: France asks for Noriega's Extradition for Money Laundering, World-Check 18 July, 2007.
The facts and opinions stated in this article are those of the author and not those of World-Check. World-Check does not warrant the accuracy of any facts and opinions stated in this article, does not endorse them, and accepts no responsibility for them.
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