The podcast also talked about it: current president is Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi [0]. > Accused of presiding over torture, his candidacy was strongly condemned by h

The 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