Assange and Interpol

Questioning the structures of authority which protect powerful figures who systematically misled us and pursue those who unmask them leads us to ask "Who, exactly, are Interpol?"

Wikipedia notes:

"In order to maintain as politically neutral a role as possible, Interpol's constitution forbids it to undertake any interventions or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature."

Interpol's Constitution says:

"Its aims are:


(1) To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities within the limits of the laws existing in the different countries and in the spirit of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights";

Then how come, at this moment when the whole world knows where Julian Assange is to be found, we get:

http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News-media-releases/2012/PR065