AS/Jur (2023) 17 18.1.3. ensure the effectiveness of the reforms of the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files (CCF) to ensure better compliance with the CCF’s decisions and directions, especially regarding the deletion of data; 18.2. all member States to: 18.2.1. work with the CCF and comply with its decisions, for instance by deleting data in national databases where the CCF has decided to delete a Red Notice or diffusion; 18.2.2. help Interpol remove abusive Red Notices used against refugees and others in need of international protection, for instance by sharing information about their status with Interpol (with their consent); 18.2.3. put in place effective safeguards to ensure that decisions on immigration and asylum applications are not influenced by abusive Red Notices or diffusions; 18.2.4. support the internal review mechanisms of Interpol (Notices and Diffusions Task Force and the CCF) with additional funding and resources. 19. The Assembly invites the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights to pay specific attention to transnational repression when engaging with human rights defenders and civil society, particularly exiles from Russia and Belarus. 20. The Assembly invites its General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistleblowers to take into account the current trends and practices of transnational repression potentially targeting human rights defenders, including when these practices originate from non-member States. 21. The Assembly also invites the Court to fully apply and if need be develop its case-law on extraterritorial jurisdiction to cover all possible acts of transnational repression having their origin or producing their effects in member States. There should be no protection gap against transnational repression committed within the Convention legal space. 5

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