Warning: This episode accommodates descriptions of torture
In our closing episode, Sahar Zand tells the story of Jessica, who spent six years in US detention due to a “bogus” Interpol pink discover issued after she was harassed by a police officer in her dwelling nation, El Salvador.
The US has particular laws to stop Interpol getting used for transnational repression, however immigration authorities seem to disregard steering to not arrest somebody solely due to a pink discover.
There’s a more in-depth take a look at the president of Interpol, Major General Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi – a senior police officer within the UAE – who human rights legal professionals say is without doubt one of the greatest offenders of Interpol abuse.
And to spherical off the sequence, UK safety minister Tom Tugendhat explains his urge for food for governance adjustments.
In episode two of the sequence, the Interpol secretary common Jurgen Stock spoke to Dirty Work in regards to the pink discover system.
He mentioned: “I think it is a very robust system, and it is a very successful system first and foremost because it helps almost every day around the world to catch dangerous fugitives, murderers, rapists, those who are exploiting children, drug traffickers.”
When requested about folks ending up with a discover who should not, he mentioned it’s “a small number of cases, but of course, very often significant cases that end up in the media and where we say, yes, this notice should not have been published”.
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Presenter: Sahar Zand
Producer: Heidi Pett
Senior producer: Sarah Burke
Sound designer: James Bradshaw
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Source: information.sky.com”