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A light against the misuse of the law

Faro Austral defends people subjected to unlawful legal persecution, works on INTERPOL requests and extradition proceedings, and publishes the research that makes those mechanisms visible.

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23Cases supported
5Studies in progress
1Published study
01 — What we do

Legal defence where procedure is used as punishment

We work at the points where a domestic prosecution becomes an international problem: a wanted listing that should not exist, a notice that travels faster than its judicial review, an extradition built on a file that has already been annulled.

Unlawful prosecution

Support for individuals and companies facing constructed cases, repeated inspections and procedural retaliation. Documentary reconstruction of the file and its timeline.

INTERPOL

Red notices and diffusions: analysis of the underlying grounds, preparation of requests to the Commission for the Control of Files (CCF), and follow-up on the outcome.

Extradition

Technical support to defence counsel: expert reports, the judicial history of the wanted listing in the requesting state, and documentation of the risk of arbitrariness.

02 — Mission

The law should protect people. We work where it is used to harm them.

Abusive prosecutions rarely look dramatic. They look like paperwork. Faro Austral exists to make that paperwork legible — to courts, to journalists, and to the institutions that can act on it.

Document

Case-by-case reconstruction from court rulings, investigative orders and official correspondence.

Analyse

Open-method studies that turn isolated cases into measurable, verifiable patterns.

Defend

Direct legal support and strategic litigation for people with no other recourse.

03 — Research

Published evidence, freely available

All publications
Published · Report · 2026 · Limarau, Dzianis

Repeated Placement on a Wanted List after Judicial Annulment as a Form of Arbitrary Restriction of Rights: A Documented Analysis of Two Completed Wanted-Listing Cycles

A reconstruction of two completed wanted-listing cycles, both ended by final court rulings holding the listings unlawful. Drawing on court rulings, investigative orders and official correspondence, the report identifies recurring discrepancies between the stated grounds and the information available, and sets out an operational checklist of ten verifiable indicators.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21946466

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Studies in development

In progress

Five works in preparation: case studies and analysis of lawfare mechanisms. Drafts are shared with researchers and journalists on request.

01

A defence-procurement subcontractor: unpaid and unprotected

Failure to pass on the mandatory advance, inversion of claims, a cascade of bankruptcies and six rounds of supervisory review.

02

One person, two roles: a typology of retaliation

Five procedural lines across four regions. A synthesis across catalogues N, R, K and AM.

03

A multi-subject case database

Codebook, annotation schema and a pilot sample of thirty cases from open sources. Testing whether the indicators reproduce beyond the original case.

04

The price of access to justice

A method for calculating the direct and imputed costs of defence, applied to a documented case: what it costs to overturn a single wanted-listing order.

05

National wanted-listing history as a criterion for assessing an international request

A review of CCF practice in published decisions and a proposal for a verifiable criterion.

04 — Cases

Twenty-three documented files

Every case is documented to the same structure: a verified timeline, a source for each document, and the indicators that make one file comparable with another. Cases are published in anonymised form unless the person concerned expressly agrees otherwise.

Repeated wanted listing

Orders reactivated after having been annulled by a court.

Procedural retaliation

The same person as complainant and as defendant across parallel procedural lines.

Economic pressure

Cascading bankruptcies and withheld payments used as a means of coercion.

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05 — Team

Research and defence

Dzianis Limarau

President

Author of the published report on repeated wanted listing.

Ignat Krukovskiy

Head of Research

Methodology, case catalogues and the multi-subject database.

06 — Contact

Write to us

To bring a case, for press enquiries, or for institutional collaboration. Secure and confidential channels are available on request.