INTERPOL Blog

Red Notices in Immigration Court: Using the INTERPOL Refugee Policy and Preparing for Pushback 

INTERPOL’s Refugee Policy applies to more than just refugees. As reflected in INTERPOL’s Refugee Resolution, the policy protects individuals who have been granted refugee status, asylum, or another form of protection that prevents their return to the country that requested the Red Notice. Once that protection is confirmed, INTERPOL generally deletes the Red Notice or diffusion originating from that country because it can no longer serve its intended purpose of facilitating arrest or extradition there. 

Grossman Young & Hammond Authors Call for Rejection of INTERPOL’s New Privileges and Immunities Agreement

Three GYH authors – Sandra Grossman Esq., Charlie Magri Esq., and Dr. Ted R. Bromund – have published a major article in Just Security calling on the United States not to sign the new “General Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of INTERPOL.”

Red Notices in Immigration Court: Strategies for using the CCF in Asylum Proceedings

A Red Notice can create significant obstacles to the underlying relief your client is seeking. In asylum cases, DHS may rely on a Red Notice to invoke the serious nonpolitical crime bar, challenge credibility, or argue that a client is undeserving of discretionary relief. If left unchallenged, allegations originating from the very government your client fled may begin to shape the narrative of the case.

Belarusian Red Notice Abuses Raises Questions for INTERPOL

The arrest warrant, and the resulting Red Notice, was almost certainly an act of political retaliation. Zdanevich-Spykhalska believes that the Belarusian authorities were likely persecuting her for her participation in protests near the Belarusian embassy in Warsaw, as the arrest warrant was issued immediately after those protests, and that she may have been identified through photographs on social media.

Red Notices in Immigration Court: Tips for Immigration Bond Hearings

DHS presenting a Red Notice in bond proceedings can often feel like a gut punch, and as if no possible relief can be obtained. But that is far from the truth. A Red Notice is an untested information-sharing tool, not a conviction or arrest warrant, and it should not be treated as conclusive evidence of the respondent’s danger or flight risk in bond proceedings.

A New Insight into INTERPOL’s Finances – And Who Makes the Rules

A recent press release from Liberia offers new insight into an important aspect of INTERPOL’s financial statements: how INTERPOL handles nations that fail to pay their dues.

The Vanishing Preemptive Request: Uncertainty at the CCF’s New INTERPOL Portal

The launch of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files’ (“CCF”) new online portal has created significant uncertainty regarding the status and handling of preemptive requests before INTERPOL.

GYH Experts Cited in Landmark Freedom House Report on Transnational Repression

Transnational repression is a difficult concept to define precisely. Indeed, as Freedom House observes, a definition “does not need to enumerate all of the tactics of transnational repression, because tactics can evolve.” But “transnational repression is committed by states and their proxies, against individuals living abroad who share a national connection to the origin state, and hinders fundamental rights such as the freedoms of expression, belief, and association.”Managing Partner Sandra Grossman, Attorney Ariel Rawls, Of Counsel Charlie Magri and Counsel Dr. Ted R. Bromund – submitted comments on the CPD’s third public request, focusing on whether applicants should be explicitly included in Article 34 “Consultations” when the CCF seeks additional information. The change to the RPD was minor: Article 94 on “Stolen Work of Art Notices” was deleted because, following the creation of a public Works of Art database, the notice system had not been used for years and was considered obsolete.

GYH Authors Assess Transparency of INTERPOL’s Corrective Measures in Harvard International Law Journal

Corrective measures are codified in INTERPOL’s Rules on the Processing of Data (RPD). These measures include enhanced supervision of a National Central Bureau (NCB), temporary suspension of processing rights, and, in serious cases, restrictions (including suspension of access or processing rights) that must be approved by INTERPOL’s Executive Committee. Managing Partner Sandra Grossman, Attorney Ariel Rawls, Of Counsel Charlie Magri and Counsel Dr. Ted R. Bromund – submitted comments on the CPD’s third public request, focusing on whether applicants should be explicitly included in Article 34 “Consultations” when the CCF seeks additional information. The change to the RPD was minor: Article 94 on “Stolen Work of Art Notices” was deleted because, following the creation of a public Works of Art database, the notice system had not been used for years and was considered obsolete.