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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Tess McClure in Auckland

New Zealand faces global pressure over move to let resident be extradited to China

Chinese president Xi Jinping (R) receives New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern in Beijing.
Parliamentarians from around the world have written to NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern over a court decision that a murder suspect could be extradited to China. Photograph: Kenzaburo Fukuhara/EPA

New Zealand is under international pressure to stop the extradition of a resident to China, after a landmark supreme court decision allowed the government to send a man accused of murder to Shanghai to face trial.

The decision was a reversal of previous court rulings, which blocked extradition on the grounds that Kyung Yup Kim, the accused, would be at high risk of torture or an unfair trial.

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