Commentary Several high-profile Hongkongers—all former lawmakers and pro-democracy leaders—are now living in exile and seeking help from an unlikely place: Interpol. Why do I say unlikely place? Because Interpol has been accused of allowing dictatorships to abuse its system, without taking any real measures to punish them for doing so. These Hongkongers are placing considerable faith in the organization, given that it has failed to protect Idris Hasan, an ethnic Uyghur who’s now facing extradition from Morocco to China and life in prison. Interpol failed to properly vet a red notice request from China, and approved it. Only later, when Safeguard Defenders managed to create a media storm around Hasan’s case, did Interpol revisit the red notice and realized that it had violated its own rules, and subsequently cancelled the notice. For Hasan, of course, it was too late as he had already been detained, and Interpol refused to assist …