On Wednesday, Serbia's justice minister told war crimes prosecutors in The Hague that a new law would be passed allowing the extradition of Yugoslav citizens -- a move that could allow Milosevic to be tried in The Hague.
According to the Associated Press, the Swiss Criminal Court has said Polanski's lawyers have requested the film-maker's release but precedent in Swiss law shows that the subjects of extradition requests are normally kept in detention.
Also, even though the extradition would be according to Swedish law, the UK's approval would be needed.
To the surprise of nearly all legal observers, five of the Law Lords have decided that this is now how Britain's extradition law should be interpreted.
Croatian law does not allow the extradition of its citizens for trials abroad.
The two suspected ETA members, whose arrests were made under extradition law, are being held at a central London police station.
But he is also facing 11 terrorism-related charges in the United States, which has promised to press for his extradition when British law allows.
Five Law Lords have embarked on a rewriting of British extradition law, ruling that extradition can take place only if the alleged act was criminal in both Britain and Spain at the time it was committed, rather than at the time of the extradition request.
Turkey has demanded his extradition but Germany has so far refused as he might face the death penalty under Turkish law.
Much criticised both here and in America, the extradition treaty has not yet been ratified by Congress and thus has no force in international law.
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He would surely hate to do so leaving a weak extradition law behind him and, on all past form, would be happy to tell the media exactly why.
What the five Law Lords in the current majority have done is to interpret international law, and the British statutes implementing it, as narrowly as possible, but to interpret the Extradition Act so adventurously that even British lawyers who specialise in fighting extradition cases are amazed.
British Home Secretary Theresa May ordered Dewani's extradition in September, but he appealed to the High Court, saying it would breach his human rights under European law.
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"If, after a fair hearing in Switzerland at which the entire record of this case is truthfully presented, the Swiss determine that extradition is justified, Mr Polanski will of course comply with a lawful extradition order and return to California to litigate the issues of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and be finally sentenced under the law, " the statement said.
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