Over the past several decades, popular media has contributed to a widespread misunderstanding of INTERPOL and how it operates. The media often portrays INTERPOL as a body that sends out detectives or agents to arrest and apprehend criminals. This is not the case. As explained in a previous blog post here, INTERPOL receives information
Red Notices
INTERPOL Red Notices- do they ever expire?
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- This question arises often, and with reason.
- INTERPOL’s member countries circulate Red Notices for people who are wanted either to stand trial or to serve a sentence. People
INTERPOL Red Notices and immigration problems
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In our last segment, I discussed the way that the Dual Criminality requirement of most extradition treaties affects Red Notice subjects who are possibly facing extradition.
We left off with the idea that, even if extradition is prevented by a lack of dual criminality, a Red Notice can still lead to a person’s removal…
INTERPOL Red Notices and the dual criminality requirement
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INTERPOL Red Notices- Why doesn’t INTERPOL list all Red Notice subjects on its website?
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Why doesn’t INTERPOL list all Red Notice subjects on its website?
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…
INTERPOL Red Notice Abuse: a discussion
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with fellow practitioners Yuriy Nemets of Nemets Law and Ben Keith of 5 Saint Andrew’s Hill in a segment of the Nemets Law-hosted webinar series, “Open Conversations about INTERPOL Abuse.” The recorded conversation includes examples of Red Notice abuse in multiple countries, such as Ecuador, India, Mozambique, Paraguay…
INTERPOL Red Notices- Traveling as a Red Notice subject
- When a member country uses its access to INTERPOL’s databases, it should be alerted to an individual’s status as the subject of a notice.
- Member countries handle such “hits” differently, with some treating a Red
Red Notice and the Dual Criminality Requirement-INTERPOL attorney Michelle Estlund
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The main purpose of an INTERPOL Red Notice is for INTERPOL’s member countries to help each other find and extradite fugitives and bring them to justice.
So why do we sometimes see a wanted person living openly in another country, without being extradited to the country where she is wanted by the authorities?
A…
INTERPOL’s CCF: the Annual Report (Post 3 of 3)
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Today’s post is the final in our series on the most recent Annual Report of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF). The focus of this post will be on the critical factor of admissibility.
Admissibility as the first step to the CCF’s examination of a case
Before an applicant’s request for access, …
INTERPOL Red Notice removal for Chinese dissident Chuan Liang Li
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ESTLUND LAW OBTAINS THE DELETION OF RED NOTICE ON BEHALF OF CHINESE DISSIDENT CHUAN LIANG LI
Miami, Florida, U.S.A.- Chuan Liang Li, former Vice Mayor of Jixi City in China, is now free of the Red Notice that the People’s Republic of China had issued in…