Three ICPC members were detained for praying to commemorate the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, while seven other members are currently in prison, including former president of the ICPC Liu Xiaobo.
The ICPC flourished until 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed Austria; the ICPC's records were subsequently relocated to Berlin.
After the war the ICPC accepted an offer from the French government of a headquarters in Paris together with a staff for the General Secretariat consisting of French police officials.
Interpol was at first mainly a European organization, drawing only limited support from the United States and other non-European countries (the United States did not join the ICPC until 1938).
Interpol, first known as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), was founded in 1923 in Vienna by the city's head of police, Johann Schober.
The ICPC was thus revived, though the loss or destruction of all its prewar records required that it be completely reorganized.
In 1949 the ICPC was granted consultative status by the United Nations.
In 1956 the ICPC ratified a new constitution, under which it was renamed the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).
In 1923, following a significant increase in international crime that particularly affected Austria, representatives of the criminal police forces of 20 countries met in Vienna and formed the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) that year.
The Nazis took over the ICPC in 1938, when Germany annexed Austria, but the organization's operations ceased with the outbreak of World War II.
In June, ICPC members Lü Gengsong and Chen Shuqing were sentenced to more than 10 years each in prison, on charges of subversion for publishing pro-democracy essays on foreign websites, as well as promoting the banned Chinese Democratic Party.
