4 March 2011

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INTERPOL media release

04 March 2011

INTERPOL issues global alert
following threat identified in UN sanctions resolution targeting
Libya's Colonel Al-Qadhafi and others

Member states’ police encouraged to
share information requested by International Criminal Court
Prosecutor via INTERPOL

View Orange notice

LYON, France - INTERPOL has issued a global alert known as an
Orange Notice against Colonel Al-Qadhafi and 15 other Libyan
nationals, including members of his family and close associates, in
a bid to warn member states of the danger posed by the movement of
these individuals and their assets, to assist member states in their
efforts to enforce sanctions under United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1970 (2011), and to support INTERPOL's assistance to the
International Criminal Court investigation into alleged crimes
against humanity in Libya.

With identifying information on each of the subjects on the UN
travel ban and asset freeze list added to
INTERPOL's databases and circulated to frontline law enforcement
officers at key areas such as border control points, INTERPOL's
alert will help ensure that law enforcement in each of the world
police body's 188 member countries will be able to take all
necessary measures to protect civilians and to enforce travel bans
against all 16 Libyan nationals, as well as the assets freeze
targeting six of them. The individuals subject to the Orange Notice
have been identified as being involved in or complicit in planning
attacks, including aerial bombardments, on civilian populations.

INTERPOL's alert will see its Command and Co-ordination Centre at
its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon liaise with its
National Central Bureaus to pool and update all relevant
intelligence to ensure that the Libyan nationals are not able to
circumvent the travel ban or the assets freeze.

With the UN Security Council referring recent events in Libya to
the International Criminal Court and calling on all states and
concerned international organizations to co-operate fully with the
Prosecutor and the Court in this matter, INTERPOL Secretary General
Ronald K. Noble said: "INTERPOL's constitution provides a clear
mandate for the widest co-operation among law enforcement
authorities in its member countries, within the spirit of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the prevention of
serious human rights abuses."

"As a first priority, we must work to protect the civilian
populations of Libya and of any country into which these Libyan
individuals may travel or attempt to move their assets,” said
Secretary General Noble.

“If member states are expected to implement effectively the
travel ban and asset freeze against the named individuals in order
to prevent serious criminal conduct and abuse of human rights, they
will need instant access to hard data.  INTERPOL’s secure
global communications system and databases will give them access to
the information on which to act. The ICC Prosecutor will also
need secure options for gathering and sharing information relevant
to his investigation which INTERPOL can provide.

“Our co-operation with the UN Security Council on sanctions
against individuals is strong and will get stronger. Once the
relevant UN Committee for monitoring the implementation of these
sanctions has had an opportunity to consider the matter, INTERPOL
hopes to work with the UN to obtain the issuance of and ensure the
reliability of INTERPOL – UN Security Council Special Notices for
these individuals as we have done with the 1267 Committee,” added
the head of INTERPOL.

INTERPOL's co-operation with UN bodies has seen its global law
enforcement network and system of international notices used by
international criminal tribunals and the ICC to seek persons wanted
for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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