{"id":18115,"date":"2025-07-16T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/?p=18115"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:34:59","slug":"corvus-riga-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/corvus-riga-municipality\/","title":{"rendered":"Corvus | Jurista V\u0101rds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <section id=\"news-content-block_9e47a6dcd65922d0da29ec51722f2d5f\" class=\"news-content js-news-content container-small\">\n        <header class=\"news-content__header\">\n            <h1 class=\"news-content__header-title h1 js-fade-in\">\n                Corvus | Jurista V\u0101rds             <\/h1>\n            <div class=\"news-content__header-details js-fade-in\">\n                <p class=\"news-content__header-info\">\n                    <span class=\"news-content__header-category\">News<\/span>\n                    <span class=\"news-content__header-divider\"><\/span>\n                    <span class=\"news-content__header-date\">16 July 2025<\/span>\n                <\/p>\n                <p class=\"news-content__header-author\">Author: Corvus <\/p>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/jaunumi-en\/\"\n                       class=\"news-content__back-link\">All news<\/a>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/header>\n        <aside class=\"news-content__sidebar js-fade-in\">\n            <p>Share:<\/p>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcorvusfirm.com%2Fen%2Fcorvus-riga-municipality%2F\"\n               aria-label=\"Share to: Facebook\" class=\"news-content__sidebar-fb\"\n               target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcorvusfirm.com%2Fen%2Fcorvus-riga-municipality%2F&#038;text=\"\n               class=\"news-content__sidebar-twitter\" aria-label=\"Share to: Twitter\"\n               target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcorvusfirm.com%2Fen%2Fcorvus-riga-municipality%2F\"\n               class=\"news-content__sidebar-linkedin\" aria-label=\"Share to: Twitter\"\n               target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\n        <\/aside>\n        <main class=\"news-content__main js-fade-in\">\n            <h5 data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"452\">\ud83d\udd34 Russia and Interpol: Is the International Legal System Becoming an Instrument of Repression?<\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"452\"><br data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"178\" \/>\ud83d\udcd8 In this week\u2019s issue of the journal <em data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"232\">Jurista V\u0101rds<\/em> (15.07.2025, No. 28 (1498)), an opinion article by <a href=\"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/komanda\/aleksejs-jelisejevs\/\">Aleksejs Je\u013cisejevs<\/a>, senior lawyer at CORVUS and doctoral student at Tur\u012bba Business School, has been published: <em data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"452\">\u201cRussia Is Abusing Interpol for Its Own Interests.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"454\" data-end=\"699\">\ud83d\udd0d The article focuses on the practice of Interpol\u2019s Commission for the Control of Files (CCF) to make decisions based on oral testimonies from authoritarian regimes, even when those testimonies may have been obtained through torture or threats.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"949\">\u26a0\ufe0f This approach creates significant risks:<br data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"747\" \/>\u25aa\ufe0f standards of evidence quality and verifiability are ignored;<br data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"813\" \/>\u25aa\ufe0f applicants are denied the opportunity to defend themselves;<br data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"878\" \/>\u25aa\ufe0f Interpol becomes an instrument of politically motivated persecution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"1113\">\ud83d\udcca Russia submits 48.2% of all public \u201cRed Notices\u201d to Interpol. In comparison: USA \u2013 3.6%, China \u2013 0.4%. This is not coincidental \u2013 it is a structured mechanism.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1231\">\ud83d\udcce The article is also available on the <em data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1170\">Jurista V\u0101rds<\/em> website: <a href=\"https:\/\/juristavards.lv\/\">juristavards.lv<\/a> and on the CORVUS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/corvus-firm_jv-nr-28-1498-activity-7351159954747092992-z2ad?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAABwTXdkBhfblX4d5GM2q1gF16_Tt8xuzOhk\">LinkedIn<\/a> profile.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1333\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">#JuristaV\u0101rds #Interpol #CCF #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #InternationalLaw #Corvus #PoliticalPersecution<\/span><\/p>\n        <\/main>\n        <footer class=\"news-content__footer js-fade-in\">\n            <hr>\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/jaunumi-en\/\"\n                   class=\"news-content__back-link\">All news<\/a>\n                    <\/footer>\n    <\/section>\n\n<script>window.dispatchEvent( new Event('acf\/loaded\/news-content'));<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18115"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18171,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115\/revisions\/18171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corvusfirm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}