Commentary China seeks to have a member of its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) installed on Interpol’s powerful Executive Committee at elections later this month. On Nov. 15, a long list of members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a global alliance of members of parliaments from over 20 countries, and Safeguard Defenders, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that I founded, revealed that China has successfully put forth Hu Binchen for election to Interpol’s powerful 13-member Executive Committee. It was not long ago that the disgraced former chairman of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, a vice-minister at the MPS and a Chinese Communist Party member, had his chairmanship cut short as he disappeared during a trip back to China from France in late 2018. Meng disappeared for about half a year—into China’s “liuzhi” system for enforced disappearances outside the legal system itself—and Beijing initially refused to inform Interpol of the incident. Meng …
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