Red Notices, International Extradition, and Perspective
A Red Notice Law Journal reader recently asked a common question arises when one’s life is touched by INTERPOL. The question:
How can you check whether you have a red notice in your name? I checked the Interpol site but I feel information is not accurate or updated. Please advise.
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Clients who are the subjects of Red Notices frequently and understandably feel a sense of outrage over the fact that a Red Notice has been issued against them when they are in fact innocent of the charges in the underlying arrest warrant.
When clients ask if INTERPOL will withdraw a Red Notice based on…
INTERPOL assists in locating and extraditing people wanted for prosecution or to serve sentences in criminal cases. Matters of a civil nature are not matters within the scope of INTERPOL’s organization. However, sometimes cultural differences – and the accompanying legislative differences- create stark distinctions between the types of matters that countries consider to be criminal.…
One of the most frequent concerns cited by our Red Notice clients is what could happen even if they succeed in their efforts to remove a Red Notice. Most people who challenge Red Notices do so because they have tried to resolve the matter at the country of origin and failed, or because the country…
One of the primary purposes of a Red Notice is for INTERPOL’s member countries to assist each other in finding Red Notice subjects and extraditing them back to the countries who seek to prosecute or sentence them.
Sometimes, when authorities find a Red Notice subject in their country and alert the original requesting country to…
A reader sent in this message:
“I have a red notice of Interpol but I didn’t commit any crime… I am trying to find any information possible or anybody who can help me… I already wrote to the CCF, but as you may know… it is pointless…”
Actually, I am happy to report that this…
This is the third in a series of posts by guest author Lisa Ould Aklouche*
A reader recently posed the following question:
“Is it a prerequisite for a Red notice that the notice pertains to a criminal offense in the issuing country?”
The simple answer is yes.
What is more, in general, Red Notices may…
This is the second in a series of posts by guest author Lisa Ould Aklouche*
Following the previous post about China’s violation of its obligations to INTERPOL regarding due process rights and INTERPOL’s lackluster response to those violations, the question of what INTERPOL can do about it bears consideration.
First, INTERPOL could exercise pressure on…
Clients frequently ask how they can have an INTERPOL Red Notice if they are not listed on the Wanted page of INTERPOL’s website.
The answer is that the vast majority of Red Notices are unpublished. INTERPOL’s currently available data, here, tells us that
“[t]here are currently approximately 58,000 valid Red Notices, of which some 7,000
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INTERPOL’s CCF (the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files) has made its most recent Annual Report available online, here. In the 2017 Annual Report, which was officially published at the 2018 General Assembly meeting, the CCF covered a variety of topics, from recent statutory changes to the duties of the two chambers.
Among…
