{"id":572437,"date":"2022-03-24T22:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/france-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-torture-by-interpols-emirati-head"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:05:52","slug":"france-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-torture-by-interpols-emirati-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/24\/france-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-torture-by-interpols-emirati-head\/","title":{"rendered":"France opens inquiry into alleged torture by Interpol\u2019s Emirati head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi accused of being responsible for the torture of opposition figure in UAE<\/p><p>French anti-terror prosecutors have opened a preliminary inquiry into torture and acts of barbarism allegedly committed by Emirati general Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi, according to judicial sources.. Raisi in November became president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/interpol\">Interpol<\/a>. <\/p><p>The inquiry follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/torture-complaint-filed-against-new-president-of-interpol\">a legal complaint by an NGO that accused Raisi <\/a>of being responsible in his role as high-ranking official at the United Arab Emirates interior ministry for the torture of an opposition figure.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/france-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-torture-by-interpols-emirati-head\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/france-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-torture-by-interpols-emirati-head\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi accused of being responsible for the torture of opposition figure in UAEFrench anti-terror prosecutors have opened a preliminary inquiry into torture and acts of barbarism allegedly committed by Emirati general Ahmed Nasser al-Rai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11217,640,1258,438,2720,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578801,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572437\/revisions\/578801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}