SECTION 643

(1) (a) Felonies and misdemeanours directed against the Constitution, the sovereignty of the State and Public Authorities shall be considered as political offences, for which extradition shall not be granted. (b) The assessment of the political, religious or racial nature or reasons, or racial nature or reasons or of the grounds for citizenship, for the application shall lie with the government to which the application is made; (c) Where the offence is in itself political, religious or racial or based on citizenship, it shall be left to the requesting State to prove the contrary. (2) The following shall also be considered as basis for which extradition may no the granted. (a) offences committed by a foreigner outside the territory of the requesting State though punishable in Cameroon, if the laws of the state where the acts were committed do not consider the said acts as an offence; (b) offences that are related to political, religious and racial offences, or based on citizenship; (c) offences which have been amnestied in any of the countries referred to above; (d) mistake of identity of the person whose extradition is requested.