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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 April 2013 |
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European police to gain access to visa database |
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Europol and national law enforcement authorities look likely to obtain access to asylum seekers' and irregular migrants' fingerprints held in the Eurodac database, following approval from the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee. Meanwhile, the Council is also looking to give effect to powers that provide access to the Visa Information System (VIS) for Europol and national law enforcement authorities. |
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26 April 2013
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Article on Statewatch website
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Statewatch News Online |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 April 2013 |
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Thousands more Tasers issued to police in London |
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Police in London are being armed with an increasing number of "less lethal" weapons. Taser guns - electroshock weapons that deliver up to 1,200 volts into the body through metal probes that pierce the skin - are being made available to hundreds more police officers, leading to growing unease amongst politicians and the public. Concerns are being raised over the necessity and likely effectiveness of an increase in the use of the electroshock weapons, and an attempt is underway to have the legality of the decision-making process behind Taser use assessed by the courts. |
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Article on Statewatch website
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 April 2013 |
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Venice Commission Reexamines the Hungarian Fundamental Law |
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The delegation of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters, has visited Hungary with the mandate to reexamine and reevaluate the Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary and its potential consequences. |
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17 April 2013
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Article on website HCLU
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 April 2013 |
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Shocking testimony from the Police Station of Drapetsona |
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I feel totally obliged to speak about the things I witnessed with my very own eyes at the Police Station of Drapetsona, a close-to- the city- port neighborhood in Piraeus. I really have no idea of how I could possibly help my fellow men and so I expect each one of you to contribute to this by making widely known what I saw: |
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26 April 2013
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Letter on europolice blog
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Europolice |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 15 April 2013 |
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Era of the digital mercenaries |
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This year’s “Enemies of the Internet” report is focusing on surveillance – all the monitoring and spying that is carried out in order to control dissidents and prevent the dissemination of sensitive information, activities designed to shore up governments and head off potential destabilization. |
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12 march 2013
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Announcement on website RSF,
Report Enemies of the Internet (pdf)
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Reporters without Borders |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 11 April 2013 |
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The second phase of the Common European Asylum System: A
brave new world –
or lipstick on a pig? |
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Several years ago, the EU set itself the deadline of 2010 –
later postponed to 2012 - for completing
the second phase of the Common European asylum System (CEAS). Near the end of March 2013, the European Parliament (EP) and the Council (the Member States’ interior ministers) finally agreed upon the texts of the two remaining legislative measures to this end. No further EU measures on asylum (other than a revision of the current European Refugee Fund) are currently under discussion or planned for the time being. So the recently agreed rules will likel
y govern the issue of asylum in the EU for a number of years to come. |
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8 April 2013
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Statewatch analysis (pdf)
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Steve Peers/statewatch |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 11 April 2013 |
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A Three-Fold Attack On Protest |
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A promotional video for the Defend the Right to Protest Conference that took place on 14th October 2012. The film looks at the history of the police, the development of militarised methods of policing, and the increasing criminalisation of protest. |
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October 2012
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Online video
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Dialectical Films |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 11 April 2013 |
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Europe's forced returnees claim abuse |
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Cases of excessive force being used to remove rejected asylum seekers have been documented in a number of European countries. |
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10 April 2013
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Article on irinnews.org
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IRIN-Africa |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 March 2013 |
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Shadow Lives The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror |
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New book by Victoria Brittain - Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'. |
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21 March 2013
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Announcement on website Campacc
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campacc |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 March 2013 |
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(Nl) Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)-camera’s |
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Weblog Sargasso has mapped the 1625 ANPR-camera's on Dutch soil, and reveals what they are capable to |
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21 march 2013
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Dutch article on weblog
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Sargasso.nl |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 February 2013 |
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Racial Violence: Facing Reality |
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Racial violence remains an everyday experience for some. And, as research by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) shows, it is no longer confined to the major urban centers with wich racist attacks have been historically associated. |
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February 2013
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Report on website IRR (pdf)
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John Burnett/IRR |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 February 2013 |
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Dramatic footage released of Antwerp police killing arrestee |
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Jonathan Jacob was a 26 year old inhabitant of Antwerp with psychiatric problems. In January 2010 he died while in police custody after a police unit of 6 officers from the special assistance team (Bijzonder Bijstandsteam, BBT) invaded his cell and physically attacked him. Before invading the cell, they had thrown a tear-gas grenade inside. |
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27 February 2013
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Short report with links on website statewatch
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Statewatch |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 February 2013 |
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Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000: A police snooping tool to protect private profit |
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Corporate Watch researchers Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper have been stopped and questioned under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 a total of five times between them at UK airports while travelling to Egypt and returning from research trips in Palestine. |
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27 February 2013
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Article on website
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Corporate Watch |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 07 February 2013 |
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No-Go Zones: Map Will Detail Germany's Neo-Nazi Hotspots |
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A German nonprofit organization is set to launch an interactive map that will show where neo-Nazi activities are concentrated across the country. Designed as a research tool, it also has relevance for the broader public, who may use it in a manner similar to crime map websites. |
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29 January 2013
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Article on website Der Spiegel
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Der Spiegel |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 07 February 2013 |
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Capita gets bigger slice of UK immigration cake, chokes on first bites |
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Thousands of migrants received threatening text messages over the Christmas holiday telling them they did not have the right to be in the UK and should leave the country immediately. But many of them reportedly had valid visas, leaves to remain or even British passports. The texts were sent on behalf of the immigration authorities by the outsourcing giant Capita under a new £30 million contract to trace and contact 'overstayers'. |
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25 January 2013
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Article on website
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Corporate Watch |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 07 February 2013 |
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Another critique of the new Immigration Rules’ codification of Article 8 |
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The Upper Tribunal has concluded that new Immigration Rules do not adequately reflect the Secretary of State’s obligations under Article 8 of the ECHR. |
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4 February 2013
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Article on UKHRblog
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Rosalind English/UK HR Blog |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 29 January 2013 |
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Europe invents the Gypsies |
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Social segregation, cultural appropriation: the six-hundred-year history of the European Roma, as recorded in literature and art, represents the underside of the European subject's self-invention as agent of civilizing progress in the world, writes Klaus-Michael Bogdal. |
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24 February 2012
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Article on website
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Klaus-Michael Bogdal/Eurozine |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 29 January 2013 |
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Nestlé condemned for spying on activists |
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Swiss multinational Nestlé was condemned to pay thousands of euros to two activists from Attac who were writing a book on the company, and were spied on by a security firm sent by Nestlé. |
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25 January 2013
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German article in WirtschaftsBlatt
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WirtschaftsBlatt |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 29 January 2013 |
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COUNTER-GANGS: A history of undercover military units in Northern Ireland 1971-1976 |
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COUNTER-GANGS: A history of undercover military units in Northern Ireland 1971-1976 shows how the application of colonial counter-insurgency theory led to the recruitment of paramilitaries by plain-clothes army units in the early 1970s. |
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28 january 2013
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Announcement on website,
Report (as pdf),
State Violence and Collusion Project
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Pat Finucane Centre and Spinwatch |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 29 January 2013 |
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Can Skype eavesdrop on your calls? |
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Does Skype let police and authorities spy on users' conversations? That's the question a wide group of advocacy organisations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as Reporters Without Borders, and many activists and journalists, are asking in an open letter published online.
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28 January 2013
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Article SMH
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Sydney Morning Herald |
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