and Diffusions for compliance. Recognising the importance of resourcing the review procedure, we understand that the General Secretariat has dedicated more lawyers, law enforcement officials and other experts to the NDTF to ensure that the review of requests for INTERPOL alerts is carried out more robustly. The number of people involved in conducting reviews fluctuates at around 30-40 staff. We have also been encouraged to learn that there is now a stricter test applied for the publication of Red Notices online, which reduces the risk of abusive public Red Notices defaming individuals. 74. We have not been informed of how the NDTF carries out its reviews. We do not know, for example, what sources of information the NDTF consults to check for compliance, and what prompts the NDTF to conduct further inquiries. This makes it difficult to determine how thorough and meaningful these reviews are, and how the NDTF is able to determine whether or not a request for a Red Notice is compatible with Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution. We appreciate that the NDTF’s task of checking requests for Red Notices is a challenging one, and that in many cases, it will not be obvious to INTERPOL that a request violates human rights, or is politically motivated. The NDTF is unlikely, for example, to have an easy way of checking whether or not someone has been granted refugee status. Such information is rightly treated as confidential and sensitive by most states. 75. There have been some cases that have received significant media coverage which demonstrate that INTERPOL is able to identify politically motivated requests for Red Notices and prevent their dissemination. Clare Rewcastle Brown Clare Rewcastle Brown is a British journalist whose publication Sarawak Report alleged diversion of US$700m into the personal accounts of the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Clare was subject to an arrest warrant in Malaysia for alleged “activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy” and the website through which she published the Sarawak Report was blocked within Malaysia. In a public statement, the Malaysian police announced that it had made a request for a Red Notice against Clare on the basis of these allegations. However, this request was rejected by INTERPOL, as confirmed by the General Secretariat in response to a letter written by Fair Trials.56 34 56 Fair Trials, ‘INTERPOL asked to clarify position on Clare Rewcastle Brown’ (25 August 2015), Available at: www.fairtrials.org/node/807