French police are investigating allegations that the president of Interpol committed acts of torture and barbarity against a dissident.
A legal source revealed that an inquiry had been opened into accusations against Major General Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, who was appointed four months ago to the top post in the international policing organisation, which is based in Lyons, France.
It comes after the Gulf Centre of Human Rights (GCHR) filed a criminal lawsuit alleging that al-Raisi had been involved in acts of torture and barbarity against Ahmed Mansoor, a blogger and activist given a ten-year jail sentence in the United Arab Emirates for threatening state security in 2018.
The lawsuit alleges that as inspector general at the UAE’s interior ministry, al-Raisi was responsible for Mansoor’s incarceration