Interpol - International Criminals Colluding with Au and NZ Criminal Police

Abusive requests for Interpol arrests <br>See also: Police misconduct <br> <br>Despite its politically neutral stance, some have criticized the agency for its role in arrests that critics contend were politically motivated.[41] In their declaration, adopted in Oslo (2010),[42] Monaco (2012),[43] Istanbul (2013),[44] and Baku (2014),[45] the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) criticized some OSCE member States for their abuse of mechanisms of the international investigation and urged them to support the reform of Interpol in order to avoid politically motivated prosecution. The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of 31 January 2014 criticizes the mechanisms of operation of the Commission for the Control of Interpol's files, in particular, non-adversarial procedures and unjust decisions.[46][47] In 2014, PACE adopted a decision to thoroughly analyse the problem of the abuse of Interpol and to compile a special report on this matter.[48] In May 2015, within the framework of the preparation of the report, the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights organized a hearing, during which both representatives of NGOs and Interpol had the opportunity to speak.[49] According to Freedomhouse, Russia is responsible for 38% of Interpol's public Red Notices.[50] There currently are &amp;amp;quot;approximately 66,370 valid Red Notices, of which some 7,669 are public.&amp;amp;quot;[51] <br> <br>Refugees who are included in the list of Interpol can be arrested when crossing the border.[52] In the year 2008, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees pointed to the problem of arrests of refugees on the request of INTERPOL[53] in connection with politically motivated charges. <br> <br>In 2021, authoritarian governments of countries like China, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela were accused of abusing Interpol by using it to target political opponents.[54] Despite Interpol’s policy that forbids countries from using the organization to pursue opponents, autocrats have been increasingly abusing the constitution of Interpol. China used Interpol against the Uyghurs, where the government issued a Red Notice against activists and other members of the ethnic minority group living abroad.[55] Since 1997, 1,546 cases from 28 countries of detention and deportation of the Uyghurs were recorded.[56] Besides, the UAE was also accused as one of the countries attempting to buy influence in Interpol. Using the Interpol Foundation for a Safer World, the Arab nation gave donations of $54 million. The amount was estimated as equal to the statutory contributions together made by the rest 194 members.[57] It was asserted that the Emirates' growing influence over Interpol gave it the opportunity to host the General Assembly in 2018, and even in 2020 that was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[55] <br>World <br> <br>Organizations such as Detained in Dubai, Open Dialog Foundation,[58] Fair Trials International,[52] Centre for Peace Studies,[59] and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,[60] indicate that non-democratic states use Interpol to harass opposition politicians, journalists, human rights activists, and businessmen. The countries accused of abusing the agency include China, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Venezuela, and Tunisia.[58][52][60][61] <br> <br>The Open Dialog Foundation's report analysed 44 high-profile political cases which went through the Interpol system.[58] A number of persons who have been granted refugee status in the European Union (EU) and the U.S.—including Russian businessman Andrey Borodin,[62] Chechen Arbi Bugaev,[63] Kazakh opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov[64] and his associate Artur Trofimov,[65] and Sri Lankan journalist Chandima Withana[66] —continue to remain on the public INTERPOL list. Some of the refugees remain on the list even after courts have refused to extradite them to a non-democratic state (for example, Pavel Zabelin,[67] a witness in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Alexandr Pavlov,[68] former security chief of the Kazakh oppositionist Ablyazov). Another case is Manuel Rosales, a politician who opposed Hugo Chavez and fled to Peru in 2009 and was subject to a red alert on charges of corruption for two weeks. Interpol deleted the request for prosecution immediately.[69] Interpol has also been criticized for mistaking people on yellow alerts. One case was Alondra Díaz-Nuñez, who in April 2015 was apprehended in Guanajuato City, Mexico being mistaken for the daughter of another paternal mother[clarify]. Interpol came under heavy criticism from Mexican news and media for helping out Policia Federal Ministerial, Mexican Federal Police, and the U.S Embassy and Consulate in Mexico, in what was believed to be a kidnapping.