The CT JUST project, in collaboration with Iraqi judicial authorities, has held the seminar ‘Enhancing Cross-Border Judicial Cooperation: Extradition, Transfers, and Jurisdiction in Terrorism Cases’ at the National Center for Judicial Development in Baghdad. This activity represents a second advanced phase in international judicial cooperation. In this new phase, the seminar focused on the analysis of the complex areas of extradition, transfer of criminal proceedings and transfer of sentenced persons, which are key to strengthening the judicial response to terrorist crimes.

For three days, Iraqi judges and prosecutors specialized in terrorism and transnational crime participated in practical sessions, discussions and case studies aimed at overcoming the legal and operational challenges that hinder cross-border cooperation. With the intervention of experts such as Emilio Miró Rodríguez and Jorge Andújar Hernández, prosecutors from the National Court of Spain, the seminar provided practical tools to improve the processing of cooperation requests, manage conflicts of jurisdiction and use alternative mechanisms for international cooperation.

Julián Cabrero López, senior judge in charge of the activity, highlighted how “this activity has reinforced the commitment of CT JUST in its final phase with the strengthening of operational justice in the fight against terrorism, contributing to consolidate more effective cooperation frameworks that respect fundamental rights”.