The world of Interpol

"If a country wanted to use the red notice system for persecutory reasons, they wouldn't spell it out in their request for the red notice that it’s politically motivated," said British human rights activist Bruno Min who works for the NGO Fair Trials. "Often, it's going to be disguised as a non-political offense, like fraud, or something like that."

Human rights organizations have also long criticized how states can essentially trap dissidents by simply declaring their passports lost or stolen – by using Interpol’s database. Turkey reportedly did exactly that following the coup attempt in 2016 with hundreds of thousands of passports. 

Report: Toni Neumann, voiced by Neil King