MLATs as well as international legal assistance frameworks such as the Budapest Convention generally have a provision called “dual criminality” They don’t come into force unless the activity in question is a crime in the laws of both countries. That way if a country makes homosexuality, or criticism of their king or president a crime, they wouldn’t be able to prosecute that through an MLAT process. From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Gareth Llewellyn <gareth@networksaremadeofstring.co.uk> Reply-To: Gareth Llewellyn <gareth@networksaremadeofstring.co.uk> Date: Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 11:36 AM To: <andre@ox.co.za>, <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net> Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Police "Co-operating" with law enforcement should go as far as local MLATs require and no more.