An Egyptian woman and her newborn baby face extradition on false claims of an Interpol red notice from Oman to Egypt over social media posts she made criticising the Egyptian government.
Mariam Abdelbasette has been held since 25 May at the Medical City Hospital for Military Agencies in the Omani capital Muscat after requiring a caesarean section to deliver her baby.
Oman has claimed that it is complying with an Interpol Red notice to remove Abdelbasette from the Gulf state and return her to Egypt, following her husband Ahmed Mousa, who was forcibly deported to Egypt on 9 April 2026 and subsequently imprisoned.
Red notices are requests filed by Interpol member states asking law enforcement agencies in other member states to locate and provisionally arrest wanted people. Member states decide whether to act on a red notice in accordance with their own laws.
However, there is no evidence of a notice for Abdelbasette on Interpol's public database and her lawyer Ben Keith believes the Omanis' claims as such are false.
