08-07-2009, 09:15 AM
INTERPOL media release
07 July 2009
INTERPOL will not issue Red Notice for arrest of President Manuel Zelaya
LYON, France – The INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France has refused a request by the Honduran authorities to issue a Red Notice, or international wanted persons notice for President Manuel Zelaya.
Following a review, INTERPOL’s Office of Legal Affairs concluded that the request is in contravention of Article 3 of INTERPOL’s Constitution under which it is ‘strictly forbidden for the organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.’ This prohibition is taken extremely seriously by INTERPOL.
The charges against President Zelaya of ‘misuse of authority; usurpation of public functions; offences against the system of government; and treason’ were assessed as being of a political nature with no ordinary-law crime element.
In addition, an INTERPOL Red Notice is a request to provisionally arrest a person for the purpose of extradition to the country concerned. According to media reports, a plane carrying President Zelaya was turned away from an airport in Tegucigalpa, where Honduran authorities would have been able to directly serve a national arrest warrant.
If the reports are accurate and the national authorities deliberately failed to carry out the arrest on their own soil, this would also attest to the existence of motives other than the promotion of international police co-operation.
INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in Tegucigalpa has been informed of the decision to refuse their Red Notice request for President Zelaya.
http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/Pres...200965.asp
07 July 2009
INTERPOL will not issue Red Notice for arrest of President Manuel Zelaya
LYON, France – The INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France has refused a request by the Honduran authorities to issue a Red Notice, or international wanted persons notice for President Manuel Zelaya.
Following a review, INTERPOL’s Office of Legal Affairs concluded that the request is in contravention of Article 3 of INTERPOL’s Constitution under which it is ‘strictly forbidden for the organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.’ This prohibition is taken extremely seriously by INTERPOL.
The charges against President Zelaya of ‘misuse of authority; usurpation of public functions; offences against the system of government; and treason’ were assessed as being of a political nature with no ordinary-law crime element.
In addition, an INTERPOL Red Notice is a request to provisionally arrest a person for the purpose of extradition to the country concerned. According to media reports, a plane carrying President Zelaya was turned away from an airport in Tegucigalpa, where Honduran authorities would have been able to directly serve a national arrest warrant.
If the reports are accurate and the national authorities deliberately failed to carry out the arrest on their own soil, this would also attest to the existence of motives other than the promotion of international police co-operation.
INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in Tegucigalpa has been informed of the decision to refuse their Red Notice request for President Zelaya.
http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/Pres...200965.asp
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