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>Eventually, it was also upgraded to a "Red Notice". To put it into context, a red notice for such a trivial charge with a previously willful and responsive per
by rprasad 14y ago
>Eventually, it was also upgraded to a "Red Notice". To put it into context, a red notice for such a trivial charge with a previously willful and responsive person is unusual.
A "Red Notice" is just an Interpol request for a member country to issue an arrest warrant for a person wanted in another member country, with the expectation that the person will be extradited to the country seeking the arrest. (Interpol does not have the power to issue arrest warrants on its own.)
- belorn 14y agoInterpol requests like that are rare event reserved for server international crimes. The total number for 2011 was just 7 000 requests, which was substantial larger than for 2010 which was the year the Julian Assange notice was requested. To take it into context, a brutal murder where you have witnesses to it and the murder "suspect" flee the country, you still do not request a red notice. In the Swedish police words (asked by reporters), requesting help from Interpol is only done in exceptional cases where such expenses and laboure can be justified.