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Parliamentary question - E-009196/2015Parliamentary question
E-009196/2015

Impact of Interpol Red Notice on Schengen Information System

Question for written answer E-009196-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Judith Sargentini (Verts/ALE) , Ska Keller (Verts/ALE)

Interpol is being increasingly politically misused by non-democratic states. Countries with poor human rights records often resort to Interpol Red Notices in order to gain credibility in their pursuit of political opponents.

In a recent case, a Russian citizen, Mrs Tatiana Paraskevich, was seeking protection in the Czech Republic from political persecution by her country. The fact that her name was placed on the Interpol wanted list also resulted in her name being put into the Schengen Information System (SIS) by Germany, labelling her as an ‘undesirable alien’. This caused further complications, preventing her from receiving residence and travel documents for over a year after having been granted subsidiary international protection by the Czech Republic.

Taking into account the aforementioned, we would like to ask the following questions: