of detention or any other place where there are reasonable grounds to
believe that the disappeared person may be present.
4. Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to prevent and
sanction acts that hinder the conduct of an investigation. It shall ensure
in particular that persons suspected of having committed an offence of
enforced disappearance are not in a position to influence the progress of
an investigation by means of pressure or acts of intimidation or reprisal
aimed at the complainant, witnesses, relatives of the disappeared person
or their defence counsel, or at persons participating in the investigation.
Article 13
1. For the purposes of extradition between States Parties, the offence
of enforced disappearance shall not be regarded as a political offence or
as an offence connected with a political offence or as an offence inspired
by political motives. Accordingly, a request for extradition based on such
an offence may not be refused on these grounds alone.
2. The offence of enforced disappearance shall be deemed to be
included as an extraditable offence in any extradition treaty existing
between States Parties before the entry into force of this Convention.
3. States Parties undertake to include the offence of enforced
disappearance as an extraditable offence in any extradition treaty
subsequently to be concluded between them.
4. If a State Party which makes extradition conditional on the
existence of a treaty receives a request for extradition from another
State Party with which it has no extradition treaty, it may consider this
Convention as the necessary legal basis for extradition in respect of the
offence of enforced disappearance.
5. States Parties which do not make extradition conditional on the
existence of a treaty shall recognize the offence of enforced disappearance
as an extraditable offence between themselves.
6. Extradition shall, in all cases, be subject to the conditions provided
for by the law of the requested State Party or by applicable extradition
treaties, including, in particular, conditions relating to the minimum
penalty requirement for extradition and the grounds upon which the
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