---
title: "Extradition Hearing Representation"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/extradition-hearing-representation-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Extradition hearings: the citizenship bar, treaty requirement and the expulsion alternative under the Criminal Code. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-28"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Extradition Hearing Representation

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/extradition-hearing-representation-en

## Extradition Hearing Representation — the Anchors of Georgian Law

In an extradition case the advocate's work unfolds in two layers: the procedural layer of international cooperation, regulated by criminal procedure legislation whose details lie outside this page, and the substantive layer of the Criminal Code — the norms that determine whether surrender is possible and what its alternatives are. This page serves that second layer: Article 6 — the citizenship bar and the treaty requirement; Article 47-2 — expulsion and entry ban as the sanction often actually imposed; and Article 380-1 — obstruction of the execution of an expulsion decision. These three norms form the legal map on which the hearing position is built.

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### May a Georgian citizen be extradited?

No — unless a treaty provides otherwise.

### When is a foreigner surrendered?

Under a treaty; not with asylum, absence of dual criminality, or a death-penalty request.

### Expulsion terms?

2 to 10 years, or 5 to 20 years or indefinitely.

### Document destruction?

A separate offence — expulsion 5 to 20 years or indefinite, or imprisonment.