Interpol Suspends Red Notice for Uyghur Man Detained in Morocco

Good news for Idris Hasan. According to Hong Kong media sources, Interpol has received new information and has therefore decided to suspend the red notice issued by Beijing against him on Monday. The 33-year-old Uyghur computer scientist has been detained in Tiflet prison since July 19. He had been arrested by the airport police in Mohammed V, Casablanca, because he "was the subject of a red notice issued by Interpol, due to suspicions of belonging to an organization on the lists of terrorist organizations".

"If, upon publication of a red notice, new and relevant information is brought to the attention of the General Secretariat, the file is re-examined," said the Interpol Secretary General, specifying that "since new information has been brought to the attention of the General Secretariat, the red notice previously issued for Yidiresi Aishan has been suspended pending a new review." According to the official, Morocco and China have already been informed of this decision.

The suspension of the red notice is an obstacle to the extradition of the Uyghur national. In her letter addressed to Chakib Benmoussa, Moroccan ambassador to France, Dilnur Reyhan, president of the Uyghur Institute of Europe, had asked "the Moroccan government not to extradite Idris Hasan to China".