In the early hours of January 24, 2022, Serbia closed the file on Bahraini dissident and torture survivor Ahmed Jaafar, handing him over to Manama after about two months of detention. This took place despite a European court decision prohibiting it, following pressure from Interpol, now led by the Emirati Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, and from Bahrain's security forces.

A number of human rights pressure groups, including Fair Trials, Human Rights Watch and BIRD, have called on international policing agency Interpol to reform the way it handles ‘Red Notice' requests, following the recent extradition of Bahraini dissident Ahmed Jaafar Mohammed Ali from Serbia to Bahrain.

The Guardian newspaper said that "Ahmed Jaafar's case shows how anti-democratic regimes are increasingly able to target exiled dissidents, exporting their domestic crackdown on dissent. His extradition also provoked questions about the role of Interpol."

Human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that Ahmed Jaafar called his family and told them he was transferred to Jaw Prison.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society called for the release of political dissident Ahmed Jaafar, who was extradited by Serbia to the Bahraini authorities in violation of an order by the European Court of Human Rights Court.

Human Rights Watch's deputy Middle East director, Joe Stork, stressed that "Serbia's haste to extradite Ahmed Muhammad was simply unconscionable in light of the European human rights court injunction."

The Independent international affairs correspondent, Borzou Daragahi, said that the deportation of Ahmed Jaafar from Serbia to Bahrain raises questions about the role of Interpol.

Serbia faces the prospect of fines and further damage to its reputation, after extraditing a Bahraini national despite an order by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) not to do so, the Forbes magazine reported.

Serbia extradited a Bahraini political dissident to Bahrain in the early hours of January 24, 2022, despite an order by the European Court of Human Rights that specifically prohibited his extradition pending more information, Human Rights Watch said today.

All indications raise concerns about the safety of Ahmed Jaafar, 49, after Bahrain received him following his deportation from Serbia, and nothing can ease these fears until he is allowed to meet his family and his lawyer is allowed to attend his interrogation sessions.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expressed deep concern about the Serbian government's extradition of Bahraini dissident Ahmed Jaafar to Bahrain.

The British "The Guardian" newspaper said that the Serbian authorities have extradited a Bahraini dissident, Ahmed Jaafar, in cooperation with Interpol despite an injunction by the European court of human rights, in the first test for the international policing organization.

Serbia extradited Bahraini political dissident Ahmed Jaafar Mohamed Ali after Serbian officials responded to an Interpol red notice request from the kingdom, despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) specifically forbidding this.

The Bahraini Interior Ministry officially announced receiving dissident Bahraini, Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali, 49, from Serbia.

The Serbian authorities have handed over a Bahraini dissident wanted by the Manama authorities, Ahmed Jaafar, from Al-Daih, despite a decision by the European Court of Human Rights to suspend his extradition.

The Serbian authorities have handed over a Bahraini dissident wanted by the Manama authorities, Ahmed Jaafar, from Al-Daih, despite a decision by the European Court of Human Rights to suspend his extradition.