Cross-Border Repression: Pakistan’s Grooming Gang Swap
Adil Farooq Raja examines a reported behind-the-scenes proposal presented to UK officials: Pakistan signalling willingness to accept convicted grooming-gang offenders in return for the extradition of prominent dissidents. The article argues the episode marks an alarming escalation of transnational repression, highlighting legal safeguards in the UK against politically motivated extradition and warning of a dangerous global precedent for trading “political wins” for critics abroad.
