An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
A reader recently sent in this question:
“hi, I am looking to assist a friend who is on an interpol red alert.
We wish to challenge the notice and have no idea how to gather the evidence allegedly supporting the notice .
any suggestions ?”
Any experienced, practicing attorney will likely understand why this…
A attorney/reader recently sent in this question on the topic of publicly available information on Red Notices, in relation to an individual wanted by authorities in a particular country:
My question is whether there is any tabulation of Red Notices that have been revoked/rescinded because of the Article 3 political repression nature of the issuance.
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It was with great dismay that I read this article . It seems that under the administration of Donald Trump, United States officials are now gathering intelligence on the public activity of journalists, bloggers, and other people that the administration considers to be influencers on matters of import to the Department of Homeland Security.
While…
Let’s start with the specific good news: Fair Trials International obtained the removal of a Red Notice for current leader of the World Uyghur Congress, Dolkun Isa, who fled China in the 1990s and was pursued by Chinese authorities through INTERPOL for charges that were widely viewed as being politically motivated.
Mr. Isa, a dissident…
In the last post, we began a discussion on the issue of confidentiality in requests for Red Notice removals to the CCF.
When a Red Notice subject requests removal of a Red Notice, he is obliged to explain to the CCF why he is entitled to relief, and that explanation often involves reference to…
Why would a Red Notice subject want a request for removal of that notice to remain confidential? If you were a wanted person who was innocent, wouldn’t you want to shout it from the rooftops, for everyone to hear? The answers to these questions are more nuanced than one might initially think.
By the time…
Under the leadership of its current Chairman, Vitalie Pirlog, the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (“CCF”) has proven in this year’s decisions that it is serious about holding National Central Bureaus to their obligations under INTERPOL’s rules.
In his speech at this year’s General Assembly, Chairman Pirlog reminded INTERPOL’s membership that the CCF…
Last month, a Swedish journalist of Turkish descent, Hamza Yalçin was finally released from detention in a Spanish jail awaiting an extradition decision. Turkey has requested and received an INTERPOL Red Notice based upon an underlying charge of “terrorism” and insulting the Turkish president.
If he had been extradited, Mr. Yalçin would have faced over…
A reader recently contacted Red Notice Law Journal to inquire about INTERPOL’s role in child kidnapping cases. This question is unfortunately more common than one might imagine, and is likely to become more so as we continue to evolve into a more and more transient world.
INTERPOL’s involvement in child kidnapping, or abduction, cases, primarily…
