Sumontinee Sridej v. Antony Blinken

BACKGROUND

The Treaties The United States and Thailand signed the extradition treaty at issue on December 14, 1983. The treaty went into force on May 17, 1991. In Article 1 of the treaty, the parties “agree[d] to extradite to each other . . . persons found in the territory of one of the [parties] who . . . have been charged with . . . an extraditable offense, by the judicial authority of the Requesting State.” The United States has also signed and ratified the CAT. Nuru v. Gonzales, 404 F.3d 1207, 1216 (9th Cir. 2005). Congress implemented the CAT as part of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (FARRA), which “declares it ‘the policy of the United States not to . . .

1 We resolve the remaining issues on appeal in a concurrently filed memorandum disposition.

SRIDEJ V. BLINKEN

extradite . . . any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.’” Trinidad y Garcia v. Thomas, 683 F.3d 952, 956 (9th Cir. 2012) (en banc) (quoting 8 U.S.C. § 1231 note (a) (United States Policy With Respect to Involuntary Return of Persons in Danger of Subjection to…