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EU recognises need for INTERPOL talks

04 February 2014

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"The EU Commission has acknowledged Fair Trials’ report on INTERPOL, committing to raise with the international policing organisation the existing procedures for issuing INTERPOL notices and to consider whether further action is needed to strengthen the organisation’s mechanisms to avoid politically-motivated cases."

See: EU recognises need for INTERPOL talks (Fair Trials International, link)

and: Answer given by Ms Malmström on behalf of the Commission (link).

See also: Letter from MEPs to Commission: Political abuse of INTERPOL systems (pdf) and: INTERPOL's computer systems wide open to abuse by states trying to persecute refugees, journalists and political activists, says new report (Statewatch)

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