Serbia extradites Bahraini dissident in cooperation with Interpol
Source: The Guardian
Serbia extradites Bahraini dissident in cooperation with Interpol
Move comes despite European court of human rights injunction saying that it should be postponed
Ruth Michaelson
Tue 25 Jan 2022 15.33 GMT
Serbian authorities have extradited a Bahraini dissident in cooperation with Interpol despite an injunction by the European court of human rights, in the first test for the international policing organisation under the presidency of a top Emirati security official.
Authorities in Belgrade approved the extradition of Ahmed Jaafar Mohamed Ali to Bahrain earlier this week. Days earlier the ECHR had issued an injunction saying the extradition should be postponed until after 25 February to allow Serbian authorities time to provide more information to the court, which was responding to a request by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights to consider Ali’s case.
The court also asked for further evidence from the Serbian authorities about the case and warned that failure to comply meant that Serbia risked breaching the European convention on human rights.
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Ali’s extradition represents the first case of its kind since Maj Gen Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, a leading Emirati security official, was elected to the presidency of Interpol. Raisi, who oversaw the Emirati detention system, was accused by former detainees of complicity in torture amid growing concern that his election could also embolden authoritarian regimes’ abuse of Interpol’s structures to arrest dissidents overseas.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/25/serbia-extradites-bahraini-dissident-in-cooperation-with-interpol