Red Notice Challenges

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Many Red Notice subjects simply want to move forward with their lives when their names are removed from INTERPOL’s databases.  That decision is understandable, given the vast amount of time, resources, and energy that are required to live through the events leading up to a Red Notice being issued and to actually challenge the Red…

I recently read an online inquiry by a Red Notice subject who had been advised that her Red Notice was “in the process of being removed” by the prosecuting attorney.  The subject wondered how long the removal would take.

Every INTERPOL member country has its own National Central Bureau (NCB), which acts as a liaison…

Red Notice subjects who are considering challenging their Red Notices have frequently exhausted all of their other options.  Their efforts to show investigating police officers that they are innocent have failed; they have been charged and improperly convicted despite mutliple law violations by government officials; and they have fled their countries due to a very…


Today’s post addresses the following question sent in by a reader:

I would like to ask you the follow question:
Can a member country of Interpol get a red notice, if this country has sentenced a person in absence, without this person was stopped and obviously without having knowledge that in some country she was …

Discussions about INTERPOL’s Red Notices often include the fact that these notices are not actually arrest warrants.  When INTERPOL’s member countries issue Red Notices for worldwide circulation, the notices are meant to act as alerts for other member countries when wanted individudals interact with their law enforcement officials.  

Once alerted to that fact that…

As reported here by Ian Johnston of MSNBC, Fair Trials International received word that its work on behalf of Indonesian dissident Benny Wenda has paid off.  The Red Notice that had been issued in Mr. Wenda’s name was recognized by INTERPOL as being politically motivated and therefore improper. INTERPOL removed the Red Notice accordingly.

Once…