The portal wyborcza.pl has reported on the detention of the oppositionist and Kazakhstan’s former Minister of Economy, Muratbek Ketebayev to whom Poland granted refugee status.

Belgian daily ‘La libre’ published an article about the court trial of Mukhtar Ablyazov.

The French current affairs website slate.fr has published an article on Ablyazov and Kobylakov, both wanted by Russian authorities. In it, the author, Mathieu Martiniere, describes such events as the hearing in Ablyazov’s case that took place on October 17th in Lyon.

Kazakhstan’s independent news service, Respublika, wrote about the conference organised in Madrid by the ODF.

Spanish Radio & Television (Radio RTVE) broadcasted on its TV channel ‘Channel 5’ fragments of the teleconference organised by the Open Dialog Foundation – “Abuse of Interpol. Time for reform?”.

“Abuse of Interpol. Time for reform?” – These words were the rally cry for the 9th October conference organised by the Open Dialog Foundation in Madrid. During the meeting, the floor was taken, among others, by Alexander Pavlov, associate and former bodyguard of the Kazakh oppositionist Mukhtar Ably

Non-democratic states use the new system ‘i-link’ for notification and to secure the arrests of inconvenient persons and dissidents.

Interpol, an organisation that coordinates state police forces in the fight against international crime, is bound by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Two organisations point to the use of international arrest warrants, issued in recent years, particularly for political dissidents.