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.