The designation, Thursday, Ahmed Naser al-Raisi by the General Assembly of the International Police Organization has raised strong criticism among human rights defenders.
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The election of the Police General Emirati Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, Thursday, November 25, to the presidency of the International Criminal Police Organization, more known as Interpol, is the best symbol of the fact that ” The authoritarian era “is far from over. On the contrary, it illustrates the will of these anti-democratic powers to take control of international organizations to better repair the rules. General Al-Raisi, targeted by multiple complaints for torture, will be for four years the face and voice of this institution, based in Lyon, as famous by its name as it works.
It is for the United Arab Emirates (water), an unprecedented diplomatic victory. Mohammed Ben Zayed Al-Nahyan, Crown Prince and Founder of the Federation Emiratie, visited an official visit to Turkey, for a long time his juristed enemy at the regional level, at the moment when the Interpol General Assembly sat , composed of the representatives of his 195 Member States, responsible for appointing the President and to renew the executive committee of thirteen members.
Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, who was facing a Czech candidate, was not elected at the first two voting rounds that required a two-thirds majority. He was in the third – where a simple majority is enough – with 69% of the votes.
His election sparked critical criticism among human rights defenders because of the current practice of torture in the water and the absence of independent justice. Political parties, unions and elections are proscribed. The criticism of the plan are in exile or in detention Like Ahmed Mansour, a poet and a member of Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), arrested in 2017 and sentenced the following year to ten years of pulling Isolation in a 4 square meter cell, deprived of visits, walking and care.
“Sad day for human rights”
Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, the director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (IBRD) believes that “appoint Al-Grape President [Interpol] despite his involvement in the illegal imprisonment of emiratic opponents in appalling conditions sends a dangerous message. No one will be safe from interpol and dictatorial regimes. “” Sad day for human rights, “Hiba Zayadin, researcher on the Gulf for the NGO Human Rights Watch, who lamented the election of the “government representative probably the most authoritarian of the Gulf”.
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