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This bill, the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention (TRAP) Act of 2021, aims to counter efforts by foreign governments to pursue, harass, or otherwise persecute individuals for political and other unlawful motives overseas. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Directing the U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of State to promote reforms within INTERPOL (the International Criminal Police Organization) to improve transparency and ensure its operations are consistent with its constitution, particularly articles 2 and 3 which prohibit political, military, religious, or racial interventions. 2. Requiring the Attorney General and Secretary of State to submit biannual reports to Congress on how INTERPOL member countries abuse INTERPOL's Red Notices and Diffusions for political motives, the adequacy of INTERPOL's mechanisms for challenging such abuse, and the U.S. government's efforts to identify and address this issue. 3. Prohibiting U.S. government departments and agencies from extraditing individuals based solely on an INTERPOL Red Notice or Diffusion issued by another INTERPOL member country. The bill seeks to address concerns that some INTERPOL member countries have misused the organization's databases and processes to harass or persecute political opponents, human rights defenders, and journalists, in violation of INTERPOL's own constitution and principles.

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