Yidiresi Aishan, a Uyghur activist, was arrested in Morocco in 2022 on the basis of a Red
Notice against him. Despite Interpol cancelling the Red Notice following Aishan’s arrest in
Morocco, he remains in detention facing extradition.
Saudi Arabia
In March 2021, Osama al-Hasani, a Saudi-Australian dual national, was detained in
Morocco under a Red Notice and extradited back to Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch has
not been able to learn of his whereabouts since his extradition. He was apparently wanted
in Saudi Arabia for a 2015 car theft case even though Saudi court documents obtained by
Human Rights Watch appear to show that Saudi authorities cleared him of wrongdoing in
the case in 2018.
Tajikistan
Shabnam Khudoydodova is a Tajik political activist who was living in Russia when she
criticized the Tajik government in 2015. Tajik authorities accused her of “extremism” and
placed her on the Interpol Red Notice list. In June 2015, fearing arrest, Khudoydodova fled
to Poland, where she was stopped at the border. After being threatened with extradition to
Tajikistan and subsequently requesting asylum in Belarus, she was sent to a temporary
holding facility and interrogated by Tajik law enforcement. Khudoydodova was detained for
nearly nine months before her release.
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