Dolkun Isa Dolkun Isa is a leader of the World Uyghur Congress, who left China over twenty years ago and was granted asylum in Germany in 1996, due to his fear of persecution in China on account of his political beliefs and activities. He subsequently was naturalised as a German citizen, which meant that under international law, he was no longer considered a refugee. Dolkun has faced a number of difficulties with law enforcement and immigration officials in various countries, and he believes that they were caused by an INTERPOL Red Notice disseminated at the request of China. Fair Trials submitted a request in January 2017 which asked the CCF to grant access to information held on INTERPOL’s files in relation to him, as well as to apply the Refugee Policy in his case, but the CCF appeared not to apply the policy, and we received a response which simply confirmed that the Chinese authorities had not agreed to the disclosure of evidence to him. The CCF eventually removed Dolkun’s Red Notice in February 2018, taking into consideration the fact that he had previously been recognised as a refugee, and that although his extradition had been requested from several countries, none of these attempts had succeeded. Had the CCF treated Dolkun’s case as a Refugee Policy case, the Red Notice would almost certainly have been deleted much sooner. “A Red Notice should never have been allowed to be issued on my name to begin with, illustrating the extent to which INTERPOL may suffer from strong politicization. Such a serious allegation from any state must be thoroughly scrutinized to determine its legitimacy – something that was regrettably not done here.” Dolkun Isa 58