The Guardian has reported that a legal rights groups is claiming that Britons are losing jobs and being prevented from traveling abroad because Interpol is circulating alerts based on sharia-influenced debt offences issued by Gulf states.
The international police cooperation agency is circulating red notices – its highest level of criminal alert – based on arrest warrants for unfunded cheques, a complaint that would normally be a civil issue in the UK but is a criminal offence under sharia-compliant national laws.
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Interpol is now reviewing its procedures but insists red notices are based on states’ national penal codes. Offences must be punishable by six months or more in jail, or a minimum two-year sentence if the person is wanted for prosecution, to meet the threshold of being the subject of a red notice.
The Guardian claims that a British woman, who declined to be identified, lost her job working as cabin crew for an airline after her US visa was withdrawn when it was found she had a red notice against her name.
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