What is the difference between asking for extradition and pressuring to deny asylum? It just seems like anyone could make that accusation who flees a country to avoid a trial.

> What is the difference between asking for extradition and pressuring to deny asylum?

Asylum is considered a basic human right. I've posted elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974330

> This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes

Anyway, it really doesn't make sense to talk about asylum in relation to the country being fled. The declaration is a statement of what the destination state should do when it recognizes a case of persecution. 'Persecution' is inherently a subjective concept.