‘Illegal’ extradition of Bahraini dissident from Serbia calls Interpol’s role into question

Abuse of the policing body's red notice' system is blamed as an activist is forced to return to life in prison in the Gulf state

Marko tambuk arrived at Belgrade district prison on a Monday morning in late January, only to be told his client was no longer inside. Immediately I knew something had happened," he said.

tambuk, 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.