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  • That’s a little disingenuous. The Wikipedia article says that a man named Guler Dilaver was on an Interpol watchlist for killing a diplomat. And Uzbekistan, China, and Kyrgyzstan claim Guler is an alias of Huseyincan’s.

    So it’s a little misleading to say it’s an “internationally recognized fact.”

    A watchlist is not the same as “settled fact.”

    The Interpol Red List is an “arrest request” of persons with suspected links to terrorism. It doesn’t mean the person is guilty. Additionally, countries may decide not to arrest and extradite because of differing local standards.

    For example, Trump’s DOJ might decide that posting pro-socialism content on the Fediverse is “terrorism,” and issue a Red Notice. Individual countries could decide that’s ridiculous, and decline to arrest (assuming there aren’t other treaties in place).

    Guler and Huseyincan might be different people

    From the Wikipedia article, it’s not certain that Guler definitively is an alias of Huseyincan’s. There aren’t any records mentioned of Huseyincan admitting it, and the three countries asserting the link have not provided proof to back up their assertions.

    What is generally accepted is that China wanted Huseyincan for unrelated charges of “murder and terrorism” (arrested in 1994, the diplomat’s murder was in 2002). He escaped and was eventually granted refugee status and Canadian citizenship (2001). This gives China a “realpolitik” motivation to extradite Huseyincan however they can. Is that what happened? Maybe, but we don’t have the data to say for certain.

    Summary

    Did he do it? Maybe. Is it an “internationally recognized fact” that he did it? No.