Well, since you asked: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/12/04/a-tussle-for-control-of-interpol-pits-good-cops-against-bad https://www.economist.com

Well, since you asked: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/12/04/a-tussle-for-control-of-interpol-pits-good-cops-against-bad https://www.economist.com/international/2021/12/04/a-tussle-... / https://archive.is/s0GjE https://archive.is/s0GjE Whole thing is worth reading, but some excerpts directly related to your point: > Over the past few years, however, fears have spread that Interpol has come under the influence of repressive governments. Countries like Russia, China and Turkey have sent the body “red notice” requests for the arrest of large numbers of people, including critics and refugees. > Attempts by authoritarian governments to use Interpol to hound or detain opponents abroad also cast a cloud over the agency. Russia has been the most serious offender, accounting for nearly 43% of all public red notices. > Russia has also repeatedly asked Interpol to issue red notices against Kremlin critics, including Bill Browder, a British financier, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch. It almost got Mr Browder extradited in 2018 when Spanish police arrested him in Madrid, but he was soon released. > China, too, is a repeat offender. In 2006 Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur who had fled to Canada, was arrested in Uzbekistan on an Interpol warrant and delivered to China, where he remains in prison on dubious terror charges. In July Idris Hasan, a Uyghur living in Turkey, was detained in Morocco on the basis of a red notice. Multilateral organizations have a serious problem with being captured by outright authoritarians. It doesn't always work out in their favor, but they keep trying: https://www.politico.eu/article/us-defeats-russia-to-head-un-telecoms-agency-in-fight-for-internets-future/ https://www.politico.eu/article/us-defeats-russia-to-head-un...