On October 21, 2014, according to emails provided to Human Rights Watch by Mansour’s legal team, Interpol informed Mansour’s lawyers that Egypt had requested Interpol issue a “red notice” – a request to Interpol member states to arrest a named individual with a view to his extradition – against Mansour, but that Interpol had declined because “the request did not meet Interpol’s rules.” Interpol’s charter states that “It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.”