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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.

Sherif Osman is a U.S.-Egyptian citizen detained for 46 days in Dubai following an arrest warrant issued through the AIMC. He was released in December 2022.

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.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has issued an order limiting Interpol's powers in Russia. Now Interpol will only be able to conduct surveys and request information from Russian law enforcement agencies, as well as establish the identity of citizens of interest to it.

Baghdad wants former officials accused of corruption to be extradited

Alicia Kearns, the chairwoman of parliament's foreign affairs committee, called for the agency to provide more information on those being targeted for arrest

Sayed Mohamed Mahmoud el-Agez and Muhammad al-Iraq Saad Hassanein could face torture if taken back to Cairo, rights group says

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.

Niall Paterson welcomes the team behind a new Sky News podcast onto the Daily. Reporter Sahar Zand and producer Heidi Pett have been investigating Interpol red notices for the series "Dirty Work".

The Turkish government, which critics say falsely registers dissidents’ passports as lost, stolen or revoked to facilitate their deportation to Turkey, where they often face political reprisal, is preventing some of its citizens abroad from learning the current status of their passports to avoid deportation to Turkey, according to a report by Bünyamin Tekin of Turkish Minute.

The Turkish government, which critics say falsely registers dissidents’ passports as lost, stolen or revoked to facilitate their deportation to Turkey, where they often face political reprisal, is preventing some of its citizens abroad from learning the current status of their passports to avoid deportation to Turkey, according to a report by Bünyamin Tekin of Turkish Minute.

“Free societies need to show China and Hong Kong that we take our own laws as seriously as Hong Kong and China so readily abuse theirs,” the editorial read.

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

Interpol, the international police organization founded in 1923 to promote cooperation among law enforcement agencies, has transformed into a formidable crime fighting force in recent years.

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 Interpol international alert system has been increasingly abused by repressive regimes who have worked out that it is the perfect means to attack their opponents overseas, Ben Keith and Rhys Davies write.

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.