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and Hello and welcome to politics theory other. My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined by

Nisha Kapoor. We'll be talking about her new book, Deport, Deprive, Extradite.

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Nisha Kapoor is a lecturer in sociology at the University of York and is the co-editor of the state of race.

We spoke about her book, Deport, Deprive Extradite, 21st Century State Extremism,

which is out now from Verso Books.

So in the book, you begin by discussing several cases of extradition or attempted extradition

of British citizens to the United States on terror-related charges in the aftermath of 9-11.

With regard to the extradition of Lott v. Reisy, you discuss how the legal rangles over his

extradition process sort of spurred on a process of making extradition easier, whereby

US authorities wouldn't be required to present any sort of serious prima facie evidence in

order to support an extradition request. Could you say something about

the Lottfi-Ricey case and the general flimsyness of the justifications that are made for such

extraditions? So Lopfri-Risi was the first person who was arrested in relation to the 9-11

attacks post-9-11.

It was kind of, you know, within sort of, I think, about 11 days.

And so his case prompted lots of media attention.

It was quite fitting that it was an Algerian national living in London,

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