When INTERPOL notices are challenged
A record of documented cases where a Red Notice or diffusion was challenged as politically motivated or abusive, and what INTERPOL or the courts decided, with a plain guide to how notices work.
8 notice deleted · 5 extradition refused · 5 notice refused · 1 pending · 1 extradited
Guide
What a Red Notice is, and what it is notDiffusions: the other routeArticle 3: political neutralityHow to ask the CCF for access or deletionHow courts treat Red Notices in extraditionINTERPOL's refugee policyChanges from 2024 to 2026How to check whether you are subject to a notice
Cases
Mehul ChoksiPendingRequested by India · Indian jewellery businessman.Igor PestrikovNotice deletedRequested by Russia · Russian businessman and former major shareholder of Solikamsk Magnesium Plant who left Russia in June 2022 and applied for asylum in France, according to the BBC and Disclose.Eugene (Yevhen) LavrenchukExtradition refusedRequested by Russia · Ukrainian theatre and opera director who headed a Moscow theatre from 2004 to 2014, according to Disclose.Ahmet Jaafar Mohamed AliExtraditedRequested by Bahrain · Bahraini political dissident, according to Al Jazeera.Rafael CorreaNotice refusedRequested by Ecuador · Former President of Ecuador who has lived in Belgium since 2017, according to El Comercio.Idris Hasan (Yidiresi Aishan)Notice deletedRequested by China · Uyghur activist and former translator in Turkey who documented accounts related to Uyghurs in Xinjiang, according to Hespress.Zakir NaikNotice refusedRequested by India · Indian Islamic preacher who lives in Malaysia, where he has permanent residency, according to The Financial Express (Bangladesh).Hakeem al-AraibiNotice deletedRequested by Bahrain · Former Bahraini footballer who fled to Australia in 2014 and was granted a Permanent Protection Visa there in November 2017, according to Amnesty International.Saad al-JabriNotice deletedRequested by Saudi Arabia · Former Saudi intelligence official living in exile in Canada, according to Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera.Dolkun IsaNotice deletedRequested by China · President of the World Uyghur Congress. He was granted refugee status in Germany in 1996 and later became a German citizen, according to Fair Trials and RFA.Can DündarNotice refusedRequested by Turkey · Former editor in chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet who has lived in Germany since June 2016, according to Turkish Minute.Bill BrowderNotice refusedRequested by Russia · British businessman described by CNBC as a Kremlin critic. In May 2018 he was in Madrid to give evidence to a Spanish prosecutor about money linked to the Magnitsky case, according to RFE/RL.Doğan AkhanlıExtradition refusedRequested by Turkey · German writer born in Turkey who emigrated to Germany in 1991 after years in a Turkish prison following the 1980 military coup, according to EuroMed Rights. Turkish Minute describes him as a PEN member who has written on human rights.Hamza YalçınExtradition refusedRequested by Turkey · Sweden based journalist and editor of the magazine Odak Dergisi, who became a Swedish citizen in 2005, according to RSF and EuroMed Rights.Mukhtar AblyazovExtradition refusedRequested by Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine · Kazakh businessman and opposition figure, described by the Open Dialog Foundation as an oppositionist.Nikita KulachenkovExtradition refusedRequested by Russia · Russian investigative accountant who worked for the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Alexei Navalny, according to Fair Trials.Enoch RuhigiraNotice deletedRequested by Rwanda · Former head of presidential staff under Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, living in New Zealand, according to OCCRP.Ahmed MansourNotice refusedRequested by Egypt · Journalist for the Qatar based Al Jazeera Arabic network, according to Human Rights Watch.Bahar KimyongürNotice deletedRequested by Turkey · Belgian activist of Turkish descent, according to Fair Trials.Benny WendaNotice deletedRequested by Indonesia · West Papuan independence campaigner who was granted asylum in the UK in 2002 and is now a British citizen, according to Fair Trials.