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BALKANS: Inquiry
urged into Yugoslav tribunal (BBC News): "The
UN court set up to prosecute those responsible for atrocities
committed in the Balkans has come under scrutiny following allegations
that verdicts have been made under political pressure"
BELGIUM: Charleroi:
bientôt des caméras de surveillance "parlantes"
dans la Ville haute (rtbf.be): "La Ville de Charleroi
va bientôt s'équiper de caméras interactives,
dites sonores ou "parlantes", une première en
Belgique." The town of Charleroi is set to install CCTV
cameras that allow the operators to issue vocal warnings and
orders to those they are watching.
BOSNIA: Banja
Luka students defy police ban on protest (Balkan Insight):
"Bosnian students in Republika Srpskas main city
have vowed to flout a police ban and rally for better living
standards for students and against corruption in higher education."
See also: Banja
Luka students protest against corruption; Bosnia
ID card protests raise hopes for change (Balkan Insight)
and 'We
are all in this together': a civic awakening in Bosnia-Herzegovina
(OpenDemocracy)
CZECH REPUBLIC: Police
raid at Office of Czech Government sends shockwaves across political
spectrum (Radio Praha): "A raid by the countrys
organised crime unit at the Office of the Government and several
other institutions has sent shockwaves throughout the country.
Among those detained are former Civic Democrat MPs and a close
aide to the prime minister. The scandal has rocked the Czech
political scene and there is speculation it could result in the
governments fall"
CZECH REPUBLIC: The
Social Agent exposes Czech writer Jirí Mucha as
secret police agent (Radio Praha)
DENMARK: Blacklisted
weapons manufacturer behind Rejsekort technology (The
Copenhagen Post): "The main technology supplier for the
controversial Rejsekort electronic travel card is a weapons manufacturer
that has been blacklisted by the World Bank for its involvement
in illegal activity"
Estonia
not on the refugee way (Inter Press Service): "For
asylum seekers, Estonia is the least attractive country in the
European Union, so the numbers say. According to Eurostat only
75 people last year asked for protection in this country that
borders Russia and Finland. Local human rights activists suspect
that many of those in need for help are turned down at the border
without getting a chance to ask for asylum"
EU: African
migrants 'left to die' in dinghy sue Spanish and French military
(The Guardian): "Two survivors of a dinghy tragedy that
killed 63 migrants in the Mediterranean lodged fresh legal complaints
today in Paris and Madrid, accusing the French and Spanish military
of failing to come to the aid of people in danger"
EU: An
interactive guide to Europe's arms trade (The Guardian):
"Numbers and PDFs are not the best of friends. So it
takes a certain amount of time and commitment to extract valuable
data on arms exports from EU portable document formats (PDFs).
A campaign group has however dug out the numbers on EU exports
of weaponry and other military hardware - and broken it down
by source, destination country, year, value, licenses and type
of goods. The result is an interactive anyone can use"
EU: Bulgaria
wants US visas discussed in EU talks (Balkan Insight):
"Bulgarian wants the issue of US visas discussed at the
Foreign Affairs/Trade Council meeting on June 14 during when
ministers will approve the mandate for negotiations between the
EU and the US, according to the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, BTA"
EU: EP
gives green light to the new European Asylum System (Malta
Independent): "New rules laying down common procedures
and deadlines for handling asylum applications and basic rights
for asylum seekers arriving in the EU were endorsed by Parliament
on Wednesday. The Common European Asylum System will also stop
transfers of asylum seekers to member states unable to ensure
decent living conditions for them." See also: PN
MEPs say European Asylum System is of little help to Malta's
cause and European
politics on immigration ignore Maltas interests -
Sant
EU: Is
the European Union funding the torture of refugees in Libya
(The Journal): "The European Union may be unwittingly
funding abuse of Libyan refugees through its support for border
control mechanisms, Amnesty International has claimed."
See: Amnesty International: Scapegoats
of fear: Rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants abused
in Libya (pdf) and Maltese
soldiers help in Libyan border operations (Times of Malta)
EU: Migreurop
brief: Detention of migrants (Migreurop, pdf): "Since
the 1990s, immigration detention has become the isntrument most
commonly used to manage migrant populations in Europe and beyond."
Also in: French,
Italian,
and Spanish
(pdfs)
EU: Speech:
Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina: Agreements on border managements
signed (Europa); see: Border
ministers agree border deal by phone (Balkan Insight)
Finnish
intelligence agency wants more snooping powers (EUobserver):
"The Finnish Security Intelligence Service wants to expand
its Internet snooping powers, reports Yle. The head of the agency,
Antti Pelttari, said the service should be allowed to wiretap
all telephone and Internet traffic without a warrant. Pelttari
said the US Prism spy programme came as no surprise"
France
'cuts off' illegal downloader's web access (France 24):
"As the French government is re-thinking its policy towards
Internet users who illegally download copyrighted material, a
court has sentenced one offender to 15 days without (some) online
services"
France
threatens to fine Google over privacy (The Local): "France's
national data protection agency on Thursday threatened to hit
Google with a fine of up to 150,000, unless the US internet
giant brought its privacy policies in line with French law within
three months"
FRANCE: La
France et le Sénégal unis dans la lutte contre
le terrorisme (rfi): "La France soutient le Sénégal
dans la lutte contre le terrorisme. Paris finance à hauteur
de 700 000 euros un plan daction contre les actions terroristes.
La signature de cette convention de financement se tient ce lundi
17 juin 2013 à Dakar, entre Nicolas Normand, lambassadeur
de France, et le général Pathé Seck, le
ministre de lIntérieur." France is spending
700,000 to finance joint action with Senegal to combat
terrorism.
FRANCE: Pregnant
Muslim woman attacked in Paris miscarries (The Independent):
"A pregnant Muslim woman attacked in a Paris street by
skinheads, apparently because she was wearing a veil, has miscarried
as a result of the assault, her lawyer said"
French
far-right shames Socialists in by-election (France 24):
"The far-right National Front has moved on to the second
round of a parliamentary by-election to replace disgraced former
MP Jérôme Cahuzac. The victory is an embarrassing
blow to the Socialist government of President François
Hollande." See also: Far
right's Le Pen faces prospect of prosecution (The Local)
GERMANY: Berlin
wants to spy too (Spiegel Online): "The German
government has been largely silent on revelations of US Internet
spying. Berlin profits from the program and is pursuing similar
plans." See also: How
much surveillance do we need? (Deutsche Welle)
GERMANY: Refugees
hoping for better life in Germany find themselves in limbo
(The Guardian): "Germany takes in more refugees than
any other rich country. But that does not mean it is easy for
the hundreds of thousands of refugees stuck in limbo"
Greece
court orders state broadcaster ERT back on air (BBC News):
"A Greek court has ordered that state broadcaster ERT,
which was shut down by the government last week, can resume transmissions"
Greece
to blackball Dublin II Regulation (Greek Reporter): "According
to Minister of Public Order, Nikos Dendias, Greece has decided
to vote against the European immigration regulation. According
to the agreement, the country of first entry in the EU bears
responsibility for the determination of asylum status"
GREECE: Anonymous
attacked parliament data (Greek Reporter)
GREECE: Migrant
seriously injured after fall from 5th floor balcony (Ekathimerini)
GREECE: Municipal
staff tied to migrant racket, arson (Ekathimerini): "An
arson attack on the aliens bureau of the Municipality of
Papagou and Holargos at the end of last month, and a break-in
and theft of documents and hard drives earlier in May, is believed
to be the work of a ring of civil servants making money through
the exploitation of immigrants seeking legal status in Greece,
Kathimerini understands"
GREECE: Parliament
rejects Golden Dawn MP's request to lift immunity on deputies
Dourou and Kanelli (Ekathimerini): "Parliament
on Wednesday rejected a request from Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris
for the immunity of fellow lawmakers Liana Kanelli and Rena Dourou
to be lifted"
GREECE: Santorini
monks fight NATO radar (Greek Reporter): "The
monks of the Prophet Elias Monastery are struggling against the
installation of NATO radar installations on the fabled island
of Santorini"
Hungary
charges Laszlo Csatary, over Nazi war crimes (BBC News):
"Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man,
Laszlo Csatary, with participation in Nazi war crimes"
HUNGARY: 1984,
Hungarian Edition (New York Times): "The Hungarian
parliament recently passed a new national security law that enables
the inner circle of the government to spy on people who hold
important public offices. Under this law, many government officials
must consent to being observed in the most intrusive
way (phones tapped, homes bugged, email read) for up to two full
months each year, except that they wont know which 60 days
they are under surveillance"
HUNGARY: Freedom
House warns Hungarys status as a consolidated democracy
in jeopardy (Politics.hu): "US-based international
democracy and rights watchdog Freedom House has just released
the new edition of its annual Nations in Transit
report, entitled Authoritarian Aggression and the Pressures
of Austerity."
HUNGARY: Top
court okays stipulations banning denial of Communist, Nazi crimes
(Politics.hu): "The Constitutional Court has left in
place stipulations in the penal code which ban the denial of
crimes committed both under Nazi or Communist regimes"
Ireland
rejects more asylum seekers than most EU countries (The
Journal): "Ireland's immigration services are more likely
to reject applications from asylum seekers than all but a handful
of the authorities in other EU countries. New figures published
by the EU this morning shows that of the 1,625 asylum cases ruled
on by Irish authorities last year, only 140 applications were
granted some kind of positive protection an approval rate
of only 8.6 per cent"
IRELAND: 89
gardaí have taken part in exchanges with the PSNI
(The Journal): "The Minister for Justice said that
the implementation of the articles on this is a key measure towards
improving cross-community confidence in the impartiality of the
criminal justice system"
IRELAND: Boy
(15) found guilty of 'racially motivated' robbery of Pakistani
is let off by judge (Irish Independent): " A
15-year-old Dublin boy found guilty of a terrifying robbery of
a Pakistani man which was described by a judge as racially
motivated has been spared a criminal record and a custodial
sentence."
IRELAND: Challenging
illegality: Direct provisions, social welfare law & asylum
seekers in Ireland (Human Rights in Ireland): "The
Office of the Ombudsman has recently played a significant role
in highlighting maladministration in the operation of our social
welfare legal code, in particular in relation to supplementary
welfare allowance and direct provision for asylum seekers over
the last few days." See also: Irish Ombudsman: Appeal
Overruled: A failure to provide basic income for a family seeking
asylum (pdf)
IRELAND: Garda
slow to co-operate - watchdog (Irish Independent): "The
garda watchdog has criticised gardai for being "slow"
in co-operating with an investigation which led to two gardai
being convicted for assault and another for trying to pervert
the course of justice." See also: Gardaí
did not cooperate with watchdog investigation
again
(The Journal)
IRELAND: Law
Society to send out undercover court agents (Irish Independent):
"The Law Society is to deploy undercover agents around
the country's court venues in a bid to expose unscrupulous solicitors
touting for business as competition for criminal-law work reaches
"unprecedented" levels"
IRELAND: Man
due in court over murder of Polish man Bogdan Michalkiawicz
(Irish Independent)
IRELAND: Miscarriages
of justice in Ireland (Institute of Race Relations):
"The first annual human rights conference of Justice
Watch Ireland, Saturday 22 June 2013, 11-2pm." See:
Justice Watch Ireland
IRELAND: PSNI
on G8 drones: They actually look like big model aircraft
(The Journal): "The police service of Northern Ireland
(PSNI) have revealed details about the unmanned aerial vehicles
or drones they will be using during the G8 summit, which gets
under way in Fermanagh tomorrow. As part of an unprecedented
security operation at the Lough Erne golf resort near Enniskillen,
the PSNI will be operating three of the unmanned aircraft over
the next two days to give them an eye in the sky
view of their operation."
IRELAND: Shatter
says anti-terrorist law must stay (Irish Independent)
IRELAND: Trafficked
worker in Ireland: I was threatened, confined and treated as
a slave (The Journal): "Over 180 cases of modern
day slavery have been uncovered here in the last six years and
victims are calling for protection in the law"
IRELAND: Watchdog
clears gardai of assault at student march (Irish Independent):
"An investigation by the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission
(GSOC) into claims of police brutality during a student street
protest has recommended three officers face discipline for minor
offences."
IRELAND: Watchdog
says Magdalene survivors need compensation for 'forced labour'
(Irish Independent): "Compreshensive compensation is
needed for survivors of Magdalene laundries including unpaid
wages and pensions and rehab for forced labour, a watchdog has
claimed"
IRELAND: Watchdog
to probe conduct of gardai after man cleared of murder
(Irish Independent): "The garda watchdog is to investigate
the conduct of senior gardai who breached custody regulations
and ran an informer "off the books" after a man was
cleared of murder"
IRELAND-USA: Illegal
Irish could travel home with US bill (Irish Independent)
Italian
photographer accuses Turkish police of brutality (Gazzetta
del Sud)
Italians'
privacy in danger, says watchdog (Gazzetta del Sud):
"On the heels of revelations that the United States is
surveilling citizens' phone calls and scouring foreigners' Internet
records, Italy's privacy watchdog told the parliament Tuesday
that its citizens' privacy was also at risk." See also:
Italy's
privacy watchdog threatens Google with 'sanctions'
ITALY: Decree
not aimed at 'emptying jails', minister says (Gazzetta
del Sud): "A decree aimed at promoting alternative detention
measures set for approval by the cabinet on Saturday will prevent
up to 4,000 convicts from serving jail terms and is not aimed
at ''emptying prisons'', Justice Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri
said on Friday"
ITALY: Finmeccanica
helicopter corruption trial starts in Italy (Thomson
Reuters Foundation): "The trial of the former head of
Italian defence group Finmeccanica began on Wednesday, with Giuseppe
Orsi facing corruption charges over a deal to sell 12 helicopters
to the Indian government"
ITALY: Government
needs to 'push ahead' with reforms for immigrants; Citizenship
law for foreigners' children to be simplified (Gazzetta
del Sud)
ITALY: Hundreds
of neo-Nazis set to attend skinhead music festival in Milan
(The Independent): "Hundreds of neo-Nazis from all
over Europe are expected to gather in Milan for a skinhead music
festival this evening"
ITALY: League
councillor calls for Kyenge rape (Gazzetta del Sud):
"A local councillor on Thursday became the latest member
of the anti-immigrant Northern League to attack Italy's first
black cabinet member by calling for Integration Minister Cecile
Kyenge to be raped." See also: League
MEP condemns furore over call to rape black minister
ITALY: Neo-Fascist
militants to stand trial over hate crimes (Gazzetta del
Sud): "Two neo-Fascist militants pleaded guilty to charges
including racial hatred while another seven activists were indicted
in a preliminary hearing of a trial in Rome against members of
the far-right Militia group. The charges against Militia members
include promoting Fascism, racial and ethnic hatred and criminal
conspiracy"
ITALY: Police
escort 110 refugees from Lampedusa to Sardinia (Gazzetta
del Sud)
ITALY: Repatriations
overtake immigrant landings in Italy (Gazzetta del Sud):
"A total of 4,319 refugees landed on Italy's coasts in
the first five months of this year, during which time period
some 13,304 immigrants were forcibly repatriated to their home
nation, according to data released by Italy's Interior Ministry
Thursday"
ITALY: Seven
convictions upheld in Genoa G8 barracks brutality case
(Gazzetta del Sud): "Italy's supreme Court of Cassation
on Friday upheld seven prison terms handed to police officers
and prison doctors for brutality against protestors held at a
detention centre in the Bolzaneto barracks during the 2001 Group
of Eight (G8) summit in Genoa"
ITALY: Silvio
Berlusconi 'asked Italy's secret service to bump off Muammar
Gaddafi' (The Independent): "Silvio Berlusconi
asked Italys secret services to bump off Libyan dictator
Muammar Gaddafi, so the then premier could end his increasingly
embarrassing ties with the Libyan dictator, it was claimed today"
ITALY: Somalian
asylum seeker commits suicide (Gazzetta del Sud)
ITALY: Some
1,000 migrants packed into 300-person facility in Italy
(Gazzetta del Sud): "An estimated 1,000 immigrants were
at a southern Italian holding center with a maximum occupancy
of 300 people on Tuesday." See also: Immigrants
at sea: Why Italy must do more (The Local)
ITALY: Treaty
to combat 'vile' attacks on women (The Local): "Italy
ratified a treaty combating violence against women on Wednesday
in a bid to redress an escalating trend of attacks including
a spate of acid crimes against female victims"
ITALY: Turks
charged with aiding illegal immigration into Italy (Gazzetta
del Sud): "Police in Calabria said Tuesday they arrested
two Turkish citizens on charges of aiding and abetting illegal
immigration into Italy"
MACEDONIA: Protesters
form human chain around Skopje mall (Balkan Insight):
"Protesters formed a human chain around Skopjes
iconic GTC shopping centre as architects launched a campaign
to save it from the governments planned faux-baroque makeover"
MACEDONIA: Report
slams erosion of democracy in Macedonia polls (Balkan
Insight): "The March-April local elections saw the serious
further erosion of democratic principles and procedures in Macedonia,
CIVIL, an NGO, said in its report"
MALTA: 23
illegal immigrants brought to shore (Malta Independent)
MALTA: Man
accused of drug trafficking wants ban on use of interrogation
recordings (Malta Independent): "A 54-year old
man from Marsascala who is accused of association in the trafficking
of heroin in September 2005 has filed two Constitutional applications,
the first calling for a stop of proceedings against him because
no evidence had been presented"
MALTA: Ministers
'promised amnesty before election', MP claims (Malta
Independent): "The Nationalist Party is continuing to
insist that the prisoners amnesty had been promised before
the general election, with MP David Agius today suggesting that
ministers Anton Refalo and Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca had personally
guaranteed it."
MALTA: More
than 90 per cent of immigrants in Malta get refugee, humanitarian
status (Times of Malta): "More than 90 per cent
of the irregular migrants who applied for asylum in Malta last
year were granted refugee or humanitarian protection status at
first instance, according to Eurostat data." See also:
27
boats with 1,890 irregular immigrants arrived last year - NSO
MALTA: Prison
hunger strike ends (Times of Malta): "A hunger
strike by foreign prisoners has ended, just over 24 hours after
it started." See also: Updated
- Foreign prisoners want longer amnesty
NETHERLANDS: Bits
of Freedom: Dutch spooks must stop use of PRISM (Bits
of Freedom): "Today reveals that also the Dutch intelligence
services make use of PRISM, the controversial US intelligence
program that was exposed by the newspaper The Guardian. Dutch
digital rights organization Bits of Freedom demands the immediate
halt of this practice and a thorough investigation into the use
by the Dutch intelligence services of PRISM and comparable programs"
NETHERLANDS: Cracks
in the dutch deportation and detention regime (Institute
of Race Relations): "A series of hunger strikes, following
allegations of abuse, force and the use of forged documents,
are showing up the fault lines in the Dutch detention system"
NETHERLANDS: Dutch
pay thousands of euros to 'identify' failed asylum seekers
(Dutch News): "The Netherlands has paid at least 32 foreign
delegations to organise identity papers for asylum seekers who
have been refused permission to stay in the Netherlands but cannot
be deported because they don't have valid ID"
NETHERLANDS: 'Only
criminal and aggressive failed asylum seekers to be locked up'
(Dutch News): "Junior justice minister Fred Teeven plans
to relax the prison regime for failed asylum seekers, following
pressure from the coalition Labour party, the Volkskrant reports
on Wednesday." See also: Half
of detention places for failed asylum seekers to be scrapped
(The Amsterdam Herald)
NORTHERN IRELAND: Revealed:
preoccupations of the PSNI during policing of G8 (The
Detail): "It cost £50m to protect the leaders of
the G8 but confidential security updates of the PSNI policing
operation reveals how police monitored Twitter accounts, including
those belonging to journalists, checking for negative comments"
NORWAY: No
changes following UNE asylum-seekers report (The Foreigner):
" Norway Minister of Justice Grete Faremo states there
is no need to change immigration authorities practises
after receiving the report, Monday." See: Norway
asylum whitepaper update report due
POLAND: Anti-semitic
party 'legal' says judge (The News): "An obscure
political party with vehemently anti-semitic views has crept
onto Poland's official party register despite flouting Poland's
constitution"
ROMANIA: Signing
of cooperation memorandum between Russia's Securitiy Council
and Romania's CSAT (ACTmedia): "President Traian
Basescu on Monday said that the main objective of the presence
in Bucharest at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace of Secretary
of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Platonovich
Patrushev was the signing of a memorandum concerning cooperation
between the Security Council of the Russian Federation and Romania's
Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT)"
ROMANIA: The
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova is going to ratify the
Border Treaty with Romania on Thursday (ACTmedia)
SPAIN: Amnesty
report slams impunity for Spanish war criminals (El País):
""Impunity is guaranteed in Spain. It does not investigate,
and nor does it cooperate with investigations opened by other
countries," said Esteban Beltrán, Amnesty International's
president in Spain, at the presentation of a report into crimes
dating from the Civil War and the Franco regime. "There
has never been any other crime for which Spaniards have had to
seek justice in a different country."" See also:
Spain
blocks investigations of Franco-era crimes (Amnesty International)
SWEDEN: Pirate
Bay co-founder jailed for two years (The Local): "Pirate
Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced on Thursday
to two years in prison for data breaches, aggravated fraud, and
attempted aggravated fraud, in what was Sweden's biggest ever
hacking trial"
Swiss
president calls for foreign spy inquiries (swissinfo.ch):
"In response to an American whistleblowers revelations
of US spies operating in Geneva, Swiss president Ueli Maurer
has called for a broadening of legislation to allow for investigations
into foreign spy activity in Switzerland"
SWITZERLAND: Quicker
decisions expected for asylum seekers (swissinfo.ch):
"The Swiss authorities have presented their latest proposed
revision of the countrys asylum legislation, aimed notably
at cutting the time needed to process requests from 1,400 days
today to just 140 in most cases"
Turkey
unrest: Police investigated over demonstrators death (The
Independent): "Ethem Sarisuluk was declared brain dead
after being shot in the head with a live bullet during a violent
police crackdown in Ankara"
Turkish
government says it may use army to end protests (BBC
News): "Turkey's government has said it could use the
military to end nearly three weeks of unrest by protesters in
Istanbul and other cities." See also: Turkish
police to buy 100,000 gas bomb cartridges (Hurriyet Daily
News); 'Standing
man' inspires Turkish protesters in Istanbul and Turkey's
'standing man' silent protest spreads (BBC News)
UK
is warned it is losing fight against modern slavery (The
Independent): "Britain risks losing the fight
against human trafficking unless the criminal justice system
urgently improves its response to the crime, a major study will
warn." See: Anti-Trafficking
Monitoring Group: In the dock: Examinign the UK's criminal justice
response to trafficking (pdf)
UK: Children
seeking asylum should 'be better cared for' by the state
(The Guardian): "Hundreds of children who travel by themselves
to Britain seeking asylum every year should be better cared for
by the state, a parliamentary human rights committee has concluded,
noting that currently the state does not always have their best
interests at heart."
UK: Good
lawyers save money: Supreme Court President weighs in on
Legal Aid (UK Human Rights Blog): "According
to the President of the Supreme Court, the judiciary not only
has a right but an obligation to speak out on matters concerning
the rule of law. In recent months, it is a duty from which
Lord Neuberger has not shirked, and last nights lecture
to the Institute of Government was no exception. Its focus was
the importance of legal aid, which Neuberger described through
the prism of the UKs constitutional set-up and the respective
roles of the legislature, executive and judiciary within it"
UK: Increasing
number of asylum detainees freed after near-fatal hunger strikes
(The Guardian): "An increasing number of asylum seekers
are being released from detention after almost starving themselves
to death, the Guardian has learned"
UK: Infographic:
Survey reveals support for surveillance (IFSEC Global):
"A new survey commissioned by Siemens Security
Products division has revealed that 65 percent of surveyed people
in the UK do not think that widespread use of CCTV cameras infringes
on civil liberties"
UK: Naked
Rambler Stephen Gough jailed for breaching asbo (The
Guardian): "The so-called Naked Rambler has been jailed
once again, this time for 11 months, after he defied an order
banning him from appearing in public unclothed"
UK: Officers
under investigation over Elements nightclub arrest (Bedfordshire
on Sunday): "Six police officers are being investigated
by a police watchdog over an arrest outside a Bedford nightclub
which left a 19 year old man in a serious condition"
UK: Reggae
star Smiley Culture plunged knife into his chest after arrest,
inquest told (The Independent): "Smiley Culture
plunged a kitchen knife into his own chest after being arrested
at his home, a police officer has claimed at an inquest into
the reggae star's death"
UK: Supreme
Court gives the go ahead for negligence and human rights claims
for British servicemen deaths in Iraq (UK Human Rights
Blog): "The Court has unanimously concluded that the
negligence claims taken by the families of servicemen injured
or killed in Iraq should not be struck out on the ground of combat
immunity, and that they were within the UKs jurisdiction
for the purposes of the Convention at the time of their deaths"
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