Interpol will continue to keep tabs on the movements of Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, wanted on terrorist charges by Russia, the head of the organization said on Monday.
Zakayev, who was recently in Poland to attend a Chechen congress, was freed by a Warsaw district court on the evening of September 18, several hours after he was arrested at Russia's request.
Interpol's position is to find and identify where Zakayev is and to detain him, Ronald K. Noble said at a press-conference in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
"Zakayev remains on the Interpol wanted list," the head of Interpol's office in Russia, Timur Lakhonin, said.
"Extraditions issues are purely the prerogative of foreign countries' courts," he added.
Polish prosecutors asked the Warsaw District Court to extend Zakayev's arrest for 40 days but their petition was rejected because Zakayev has been granted political refugee status in Britain, which is valid in the entire territory of the EU.
RIA Novosti
