Freedom House This chart includes only origin states that engage in physical transnational repression. Tactic refers to incident targeting origin state’s nationals abroad. government, authorities announced that they had achieved his return through “an international arrest warrant,” only for the authorities in the United Arab Emirates to deny that they had cooperated in the return.37 In a separate effort, Chinese authorities broadcast a television show about their successes working with other countries to bring accused individuals back from abroad as part of its transnational anticorruption drive. The international police notification system Interpol deserves special attention as a tool of co-optation because of its relative accessibility, and because it can be poorly understood even among the immigration and law enforcement bodies that use it. Contrary to its popular image, Interpol is an intergovernmental organization that helps police departments worldwide cooperate with each other to combat transnational crime; it does not carry out its own operations or issue its own arrest warrants.38 The organization’s limited functions include allowing member states to request a “Red Notice” that law enforcement agencies in another state extradite a wanted person; to share alerts about missing freedomhouse.org 11