{"id":229177,"date":"2026-05-13T01:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeancourt.org\/services\/commission-for-the-control-of-interpols-files\/preventive-request-to-interpol\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:17:37","slug":"preventive-request-to-interpol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/europeancourt.org\/en\/services\/interpol-ccf\/preventive-request-to-interpol\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive request to INTERPOL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you are not currently wanted through INTERPOL channels but have specific reasons to believe that a country may try to obtain a Red Notice or diffusion, I will prepare preliminary objections for submission to the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL\u2019s Files.<\/div>\n
If the country then tries to obtain a Red Notice or diffusion, the arguments submitted in advance are highly likely to be taken into account before any decision is made on entering the data in the INTERPOL Information System. In practice, this often makes it possible to have such wanted status blocked while the matter is being considered, and to obtain an opportunity to submit objections before the wanted information becomes available to other countries through the INTERPOL Information System and can be used for detention.<\/div>\n
If the ground for the request is linked to the risk of torture, an unfair trial or abuse of criminal prosecution, a request to the CCF can raise, in substance, the same issues as those raised in extradition cases before the European Court of Human Rights or the UN Human Rights Committee. This is relevant because the CCF itself makes extensive use of standards developed in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. Before the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee, however, such complaints are made not against the country that had the person listed as wanted, but against the country that detained him or her for extradition, and only after the remedies against extradition in that country have been exhausted. For protection through the CCF, detention for extradition and exhaustion of those remedies are not required. For a preventive request, the country need not already have obtained a Red Notice or diffusion: the arguments can be presented in advance, in effect against a future attempt by the requesting country to use INTERPOL, if there are grounds to believe that it may try to do so.<\/div>\n
Common grounds for preliminary objections are the same as when challenging an already published Red Notice or diffusion:<\/div>\n