Ben Keith Features in The Independent | Interpol at 100: A mixed legacy of hunting fugitives and merging police data from 195 countries

Ben Keith quoted in The Independent, ABC News and AP News on 6 September 2023

On the 100th anniversary of Interpol Red Notice Monitor Editor, Ben Keith, gave expert insights into the mechanisms for removing Red Notices when Interpol's screening mechanisms fail to pick up politically motivated requests:

“Ben Keith, a human rights lawyer, said he has dozens of cases of people contesting spurious diffusions and red notices since 2016, about half of them from China. Stock said 95% of new red notices are non-controversial and that the system is effective. He would not name countries that abuse the system but insisted they were sanctioned internally by Interpol.

“The whole problem with Interpol is everything is opaque,” Keith said.”

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