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UK: Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee report: Powers to investigate the Hillsborough disaster: interim Report on the Independent Police Complaints Commission
UK: Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee report: Powers to investigate the Hillsborough disaster: interim Report on the Independent Police Complaints Commission (pdf) Read More
“Amygdaleza “The five star Detention Centre”: Green MEPs visit detention centre in Attica, Greece
On the 10th November this year, Greens/EFA MEPs visited the Amygdaleza detention center in Attica, Greece. Under EU law, detention should be considered a last resort and decided on an individual and case-by-case basis, when Read More
EU: FREEZING ASSETS OF CRIME
Council of the European Union: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime in the European Union [first reading] - General approach Read More
USA: Government Accountability Office (GAO): GUANTÁNAMO BAY DETAINEES
Report: Facilities and Factors for Consideration If Detainees Were Brought to the United States (pdf) Read More
You look foreign: bring your passport, it’s what the UKBA would want
"Overreaction to the London Met case has exacerbated institutional racial harassment, Scott Poynting and Ann Singleton argue" See: Full article (Times Higher Education) Read More
EU: Statewatch Analysis: State Trojans: Germany exports “spyware with a badge” by Kees Hudig
"German police have been using software to surveil people's internet activity beyond what is allowed by the law. There has also been increased cross]border cooperation with the police forces of neighbouring countries, with an informal Read More
EU: European Asylum Support Office (EASO): 2011 Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union and on the Activities of the European Asylum Support Office
Report (pdf) Read More
EU: Council of the Euorpean Union: Eurodac & LEAs and Eurosur
- EURODAC: Council Presidency re-draft: Access to Eurodac database of aslyum applicants' fingerprints: Amended proposal for a Regulation on the establishment of 'EURODAC' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) Read More
EU: ACTA REJECTED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: European Parliament rejects ACTA
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), was rejected by the European Parliament on Wednesday, and hence cannot become law in the EU. This was the first time that Parliament exercised its Lisbon Treaty power to reject Read More