{"id":514972,"date":"2022-02-16T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/16\/extradition-of-bahraini-dissident-from-serbia-calls-interpol-role-into-question"},"modified":"2022-02-16T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:15:08","slug":"illegal-extradition-of-bahraini-dissident-from-serbia-calls-interpols-role-into-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/16\/illegal-extradition-of-bahraini-dissident-from-serbia-calls-interpols-role-into-question\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Illegal\u2019 extradition of Bahraini dissident from Serbia calls Interpol\u2019s role into question"},"content":{"rendered":"
Abuse of the policing body\u2019s \u2018red notice\u2019 system is blamed as an activist is forced to return to life in prison in the Gulf state<\/p>
Marko \u0160tambuk arrived at Belgrade district prison on a Monday morning in late January, only to be told his client was no longer inside. \u201cImmediately I knew something had happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>
\u0160tambuk, a lawyer, had spent the previous Friday frantically obtaining an injunction from the European court of human rights (ECHR) demanding Serbian authorities halt the extradition of his client, Ahmed Jaafar Mohamed Ali, a Bahraini dissident. This banned the Serbian authorities from extraditing Ali until late February, and warned them that doing so would constitute a rare breach of the European convention on human rights.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n