An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
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.
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As we await the publication of the CCF’s annual report from last year, it is worth reviewing the speech given by the Commission’s Chairman, Vitalie Pirlog, at INTERPOL’s 2017 annual meeting as a means of providing continuity in the analysis of the upcoming report.
Mr. Pirlog focused at that time on the changes brought about…
One of the most personal aspects of an INTERPOL case concerns a Red Notice subject’s decison about attorney representation. On that topic, a reader sent in the following question:
Can a termination of legal representation of a lawyer after the submission of the application form to the CCF ( deletion request) and before the first
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One of the most frequent questions people have about INTERPOL Red Notices is how a Red Notice can be issued in a case where the prosecution was politically motivated. The question is a valid one, particularly given INTERPOL’s prohibition of involvement in political cases. INTERPOL specifies in one of its fact sheets, here, that:…
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My question is whether there is any tabulation of Red Notices that have been revoked/rescinded because of the Article 3 political repression nature of the issuance.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…
A Turkish court has requested a Red Notice against reporter Can Dündar, the former chief editor of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet. Authorities charged him with espionage in 2016, alleging that he disclosed state secrets in the course of his reporting.
As reported here, the Committee to Protect Journalists (“CPJ”) has criticized Turkey’s request as…
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…
