{"id":397577,"date":"2019-02-28T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-wont-intervene-as-saudi-man-flees-after-killing-boy\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:12:08","slug":"presstv-us-wont-intervene-as-saudi-man-flees-after-killing-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-wont-intervene-as-saudi-man-flees-after-killing-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US \u2018won\u2019t intervene\u2019 as Saudi man flees after killing boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The United States has announced that it is not planning to prosecute a Saudi Arabian man who has fled has fled the country after killing a young boy in a hit-an-run accident.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah fled the US with the help of Saudi officials and returned to his home country after a deadly 2016 car accident in the state of Oregon, which killed 15-year-old Fallon Smart.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The United States and Saudi Arabia do not have a bilateral extradition treaty, and Saudi Arabia does not extradite its nationals to the United States,&#8221; wrote Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the\u00a0 US State Department&#8217;s assistant secretary of legislative affairs, according to BBC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, the law enforcement options available are limited,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Noorah, who was 21 at the time of the crash, was flown out of the US onboard a private plane using a fake passport, US federal authorities later told the <em>Oregonian<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrest, the Saudi consulate had provided&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/02\/28\/589788\/US-Saudi-Fallon-Smart-Noorah\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has announced that it is not planning to prosecute a Saudi Arabian man who has fled has fled the country after killing a young boy in a hit-an-run accident. Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah fled the US with the help of Saudi officials and returned to his home country after a deadly 2016 car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}