INTERPOL Dismantling Strengthening the Tools of Oppression of an INTERPOL alert against them. However, we know of at least one case in which the notification of refugee status did not prevent the dissemination of a Red Notice. In that case, the individual was stopped at an airport just months after she had written to the CCF, providing evidence of her refugee status. The CCF responded by saying that there was no data regarding her on INTERPOL’s databases, but the information provided did not stop her country of origin from issuing a Red Notice. This example highlights that the Refugee Policy needs to be accompanied by improvements on the procedures that enable INTERPOL to identify abusive INTERPOL alerts. 125. On paper, the Refugee Policy applies only to individuals granted refugee status under the 1951 Convention. It does not appear to protect individuals who are in need of protection from the risk posed by an INTERPOL alert, but who fall outside the remit of the 1951 Convention. These include: a. people who have not been granted refugee status but instead a subsidiary form of protection in recognition of the risk which they face in the country which is pursuing them; and purpose of extraditing an individual with protective status, irrespective of the designation of that status, so long as the status is granted to protect the individual from refoulement. 127. By contrast, it does not appear from CCF decisions that individuals who have been naturalised as a citizen of the country which granted them refugee status fall within the Refugee Policy, and they are not automatically assumed to be at risk of refoulement. The CCF acknowledges that individuals who were previously granted refugee status often continue to be at risk even after they have lost their status through naturalisation, but it justifies this position on the basis that refugees who have been naturalised as citizens are able to benefit from the protection of their newly adopted homelands. However, we know from our own experience that not all individuals subject to extradition benefit from effective assistance or protection from the authorities of their own countries. Not all countries prohibit the extradition of their own nationals, and individuals subject to extraditions from a third country cannot always expect to rely on the authorities of their own country to intervene, even if there are serious human rights concerns. b. people who have been naturalised as citizens of the country in which they were previously granted asylum. 126. We understand that, although not spelt out in the Refugee Policy, the CCF applies the principle of ‘non-refoulement’ more broadly, recognising that the extradition of refugees and asylum-seekers is prohibited under customary international law, not just in the context of the 1951 Convention. This means that the CCF would find that a Red Notice or a Diffusion violates INTERPOL’s rules if it is issued for the 57