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I mean Interpol used to have a Chinese president, a country notorious for illegally kidnapping people in foreign countries, who suddenly vanished as he was forc
by WastingMyTime89 4y ago
I mean Interpol used to have a Chinese president, a country notorious for illegally kidnapping people in foreign countries, who suddenly vanished as he was forcefully called back to China to be prosecuted on bogus charges. He was then replaced by a general from the UAE, another paragon of enlightened values and democracy.
I think it tells people all they need to know about it.
- qwertox 4y agoThe podcast also talked about it: current president is Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi [0]. > Accused of presiding over torture, his candidacy was strongly condemned by human rights groups. A coalition of 19 human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Gulf Center for Human Rights, wrote an open letter to Interpol advising against his appointment. The ending words of the podcast are: > [...] With its so-called TRAP Act, the US Congress has obliged the Justice and State Departments to monitor Interpol more closely than before with regard to transnational repression. > However, that does not change the fundamental problem: namely, that the misuse of the Interpol search tools by dictatorships IS ultimately part of the structure of the organization. Which raises the fundamental question: Does a politically unlegitimized association of police authorities have the right to weigh up and decide between security and the freedoms of countless people? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Naser_Al-Raisi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Naser_Al-Raisi
- miguelazo 4y ago> a country notorious for illegally kidnapping people in foreign countries You could just as easily say this about the US. Just because we dress it up as “extraordinary rendition” makes no difference.