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Human rights campaigners have sounded a note of caution amid calls for Ireland to sign a bilateral extradition agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

LYON, France — A century after it was founded, the world’s only global crime-fighting organization faces an existential question: Does the world still need it?

Interpol is turning 100 with a mixed legacy — as a misconstrued crime-fighting organization, a network that merges police data from authoritarian states and democracies, and a global adviser on how to handle criminal trends

Court in Karlsruhe decides against extradition of Albanian man ‘in view of the state of the British prison system’

Israeli entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz was detained by Cypriot authorities upon his arrival at Larnaca Airport on August 30, on a Romanian-issued arrest warrant.

In a recent development, Russia’s government has issued a decree imposing limitations on the activities of Interpol within its borders. This decree, as articulated from official sources, restricts operations of Interpol and other international organisations involved in criminal justice and law enforcement. It applies specifically to those organisations “carrying out unfriendly actions” against Russia, its companies, or its citizens.

Baghdad wants former officials accused of corruption to be extradited

Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali says Interpol ruined his life after he was arrested on an red notice issued by Bahrain. He's serving a life sentence after being extradited from Serbia despite an order from the European Court of Human Rights preventing it.

Russia is using Interpol to find and arrest dissidents abroad, including those who criticize the war in Ukraine, exiled political opponents say.

More than 1,000 senior delegates, including heads of police, ministers and senior government officials will attend from 195 member countries.

The event will take place at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow from 4 to 7 November next year.

The lawyer for a British grandfather trapped in the Ukraine for a year after his name was put on an Interpol database has called for reform of the red notice system.

Brian Glendinning returned to Scotland on November 19.

Lawyers for Sherif Osman say he was kidnapped and unlawfully detained with the help of international security bodies to shut down his calls for protests

A Scottish engineer who spent two months in custody in Iraq says he jumped around his cell shouting freedom when told he was being released.

How some countries use Interpol to go after dissidents and debtors.