U.S. State Department Denies UK’s Request to Extradite Anne Sacoolas

On January 23, 2020, the United States State Department rejected a request from the British Home Office to extradite Anne Sacoolas, who fled the United Kingdom under the protection of diplomatic immunity shortly after a road accident that killed British citizen Harry Dunn.  The incident has confused interpretations of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) and called into question certain bilateral agreements between the US and UK regarding diplomatic immunity.