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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.

The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) refused to issue Red Notices for individuals with alleged links to the Gülen movement in 773 cases after finding them to be political, the head of the INTERPOL department of Turkey’s Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

Interpol, the world’s leading police-cooperation body, aims to “connect police for a safer world.” Although the organization’s constitution states that Interpol cannot engage in “any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character,” it is increasingly being subverted by autocratic regimes seeking to pursue their exiled political opponents. The number of Red Notices (a type of arrest request issued through Interpol) has increased tenfold in the past fifteen years.

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