If Pinochet loses again, a long extradition battle will begin.

General Augusto Pinochet today lost a crucial round in a year-long extradition battle when a magistrate ruled that the former Chilean dictator can be sent back to Spain to stand trial on charges of torture and conspiracy.

However, the extradition battle with France continued, and in June 2009, Ouzghar was handed over to French authorities to begin his prison term for passport forgery.

After a lengthy extradition battle with Canadian courts, Ng was handed over to U.S. authorities.

On October 29, 2009, he was deported to Thailand after fighting the longest extradition battle in Canadian history, which lasted 13 years.

After a lengthy extradition battle and diplomatic negotiations Canadian authorities deported him to China on July 22, 2011 upon promises that he would not be executed.

Isabella Sankey, a spokesman from campaign group Liberty which has been campaigning for Mr McKinnon, said she welcomed the decision for a "pause for thought" in Mr McKinnon's extradition battle.

That situation has put Mr. Schank at the center of one of the longest and most bitter extradition battles in the nation, and it has kept alive memories of a murder trial in Tuscaloosa 22 years ago.

One of those advocates is Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, the Hamas political leader who was jailed in New York during an extradition battle with Israel before he was released to Jordan last year.

During the extradition battle involving Mr. Abu Marzook, the Israeli Government charged that he was a top fund-raiser for Hamas in the United States whose efforts went to support terrorism against Israel.