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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 23 February 2010 |
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Carceri aperte ai giornalisti |
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Appeal for journalists to have access to prisons, to be able to report the things that happen there. It follows a series of scandals including the death of Stefano Cucchi, and highlights that "over the last few years, the prison administration has increasingly restricted the possibilities of access". |
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Carceri aperte ai giornalisti
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Associazione Antigone and Il Manifesto |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 23 February 2010 |
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La Journée Sans Immigrés - 24h sans nous |
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French initiative for a strike by migrants on 1 March 2010, which has been adhered to in Italy following recent developments. From the campaign manifesto "Let's make 1 March an historic day", "We, women and men of all creeds, of all political sides and of all skin colours, immigrants, second-generation immigrants, citizens who are aware of immigration's essential contribution to our countries, have had enough of the shameful proposals backed by certain political representatives that seek to stigmatise and criminalise immigrants and their children..." call a "day without immigrants" by stopping to consume or work on 1 March, voluntarily abstaining from the city's life to "indicate the need for our presence" through this absence. The initiative has crossed borders and will also take place in Italy. |
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La journée sans immigrés,
Primo marzo 2010 - sciopero degli stranieri
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LJSI |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 17 January 2010 |
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Petition: No to nuclear weapons! |
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ITUC petition to be presented to UN secretary Ban Ki-Moon in May 2010 on the occassion of the United Nations review of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): "We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to make the world free of nuclear weapons, as part of the overall drive for worldwide peace and the transfer of military spending to socially-useful ends [...] Trade unionists from around the world are urging that meeting to make a clear path towards abolition of nuclear weapons in the shortest possible time. We ask that:
- those countries which have not joined the NPT do so, and for all countries to comply with it in full;
- the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty enter into force as soon as possible;
- there be an immediate start to and rapid progress on the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty; and
- we ask for international agreements to support nuclear-weapon-free zones." |
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Sign the petition,
ITUC
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International Trade Union Confederation |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 16 January 2010 |
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Without Rights (Documentary) |
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A new documentary film by HCLU on the situation of Romani people in Hungary. Why would a local government pass a law that forces clubs to close at 10 pm, in an area where the only place open at that time happenes to be Romani? How can someone be accused of carrying 700 kg of wood on a bicycle? How can a case be labelled as a false alarm when the whole street witnessed a gun being pointed at a pregnant woman? How can the parents of six children be put in prison for two of their children skipping school? The film deals with such issues. |
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December 2009
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Link to documentary online
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Hungarian Civil Liberties Union |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 16 January 2010 |
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Understanding Rendition: An ACLU Case (You Tube video) |
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The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Company, on behalf of five victims of the U.S. government's unlawful "extraordinary rendition" program. The lawsuit charges that Jeppesen knowingly provided direct flight services to the CIA that enabled the clandestine transportation of Binyam Mohamed, Abou Elkassim Britel, Ahmed Agiza, Bisher al-Rawi and Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah to secret overseas locations where they were subjected to torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. |
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2009
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Video and Background information
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American Civil Liberties Union |
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ECLN notice - demonstrations - added 16 January 2010 |
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Demonstration and information against the 13th European Police Congress. Berlin, 2 February 2010 |
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In preparation of the demonstration against the annual European Police Congress and security architechture, German civil liberties groups are holding a series of information nights in Berlin. 12 January: Grenzenlose Polizei – Never trust a cop (Überblick über europäische Polizeizusammenarbeit bei Gipfelprotesten, Sportereignissen und drumherum. Mit Heiner Busch, CILIP. Unterstützt vom Komitee für Grundrechte & Demokratie.).
19 Januar: Ein bißchen tödliche Waffen – Non Lethal Weapons (Technische Entwicklungen im Waffenarsenal europäischer Polizeien und ihr Einsatz gegen soziale Bewegungen). 26 January: Europäische Homeland Security – Ein neuer präventiver Sicherheitsstaat (Über die geplanten Veränderungen europäischer Innenpolitik in den nächsten fünf Jahren, die innenpolitischen Folgen des „Stockholmer Programms“ und des Lissabon-Vertrags. Mit Fabian Georgi, Frontex-Kampagne, reflect! und Matthias Monroy, Gipfelsoli). 29 January: General assembly (Wie beantworten wir die europäische „Strategie der inneren Sicherheit“ und die innenpolitische Staatswerdung der EU? Was bedeuten die skizzierten Entwicklung für einen radikalen, autonomen Widerstand?) 2 February: Demonstration against the European Police Congress, 5pm, Hackescher Markt, Rosenthaler Straße 30
S-Bahn Hackescher Markt/ U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin. |
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Berlin January & February 2010
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Background information,
More information on euro-police.noblogs
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 12 January 2010 |
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Manifiesto de apoyo a la campanha a favor del no encarcelamiento de los "manteros" |
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A statement in which this campaign to stop street sellers of pirate CDs/DVDs from going to prison, alongside members of the performing arts, call upon the Spanish parliament to "adopt the necessary legal measures to prevent these people... from being imprisoned". While expressing their opposition to the sale of counterfeit goods and defending the protection of intellectual property rights, the artists who sign the statement deem the arrest for up to two years for exhibiting and selling pirate copies on the street "disproportionate". |
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Manifiesto de apoyo a la campanha a favor del no encarcelamiento de los "manteros" ,
Plataforma "ningun mantero en prision"
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Plataforma "ningun mantero en prision" |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 12 January 2010 |
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Semaine de solidarité avec les inculpés de l’incendie de Vincennes du 17 au 24 janvier |
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To express solidarity leading up to the trial from 25 to 27 January in Paris in which 10 detainees who were part of a revolt in Vincennes detention centre (the largest one in France at the time) during which it was burned down. The revolt followed the death of a detainee who was not given his medication on 21 June 2008. The campaign calls for their release and acquittal. |
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Semaine de solidarité avec les inculpés de l’incendie de Vincennes du 17 au 24 janvier
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Vincennes solidarity campaign |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 20 December 2009 |
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Swedish Appeal for the child’s best interest in the asylum process |
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Swedish social workers' appeal to be made to Tobias Billström, Swedish migration minister,
and Dan Eliasson, head of the Swedish Migration Board, demanding Sweden to take action and stop sending children
back to unsafe countries: "We, the writers of this text, are working directly with unaccompanied refugee children and meet them on a daily basis. Many of these children have experienced traumatic breakups and accounts of abuse and violence are common. These children have a great need of safety, care and security. Therefore it is crucial to put the child’s best interest in the heart of the asylum process – something that you see less and less of today.[...] We have already appealed to the Swedish decision makers and those held responsible for issues concerning migration and asylum to put the principle of the child’s best interest into practice – that it not remain just as words on paper. We want Sweden to take its responsibility for these children until the European commission sees to that the reception of refugees and the asylum procedures are equivalent in all of Europe. We demand an immediate stop of all transfers of children to countries that right now can not guarantee or offer the children a safe place, their rights being protected or a legally secure asylum procedure." |
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Swedish appeal
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Swedish social workers |
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ECLN notice - meetings/conferences - added 20 December 2009 |
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Abolition, Reform and the Politics of Global Incarceration - Call for papers |
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The 13th International Conference on Penal Abolition will be held in Belfast at a defining moment regarding the devolution of Policing and Justice to the recently constituted Northern Ireland Assembly. A decade on from the release of political prisoners under the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement, Northern Ireland’s prisons are under continuing criticism. We invite international papers, art, film, policy proposals, reports and posters on any aspect of the generic theme from researchers, activists, prisoners and former prisoners on penal abolition at a time dominated by reformist discourses about ‘healthy prisons’ alongside global expansion of incarceration in prisons, special hospitals and other places of detention. Individuals and groups can offer sessions/ panels in diverse formats. Current and former prisoners unable to attend, please contact us to enable presentations by proxy.
The Conference will be held at the University and in the community. We will provide a range of options for people to book directly with local hotels and hostels and endeavour to accommodate former prisoners. Submission of Abstracts
Deaglan Coyle
d.p.coyle@qub.ac.uk
0044 28 9097 3472
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Belfast, Ireland 23-25 June 2010
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History of ICOPA on Justice Action
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Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice School of Law, Queen's University Belfast |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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NeoConOpticon: The EU Security Industrial Complex |
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"This report is an indispensable reference manual on the threats posed to citizens by the convergence of neo-con ideology, power and technology in the name of national security." (Frances Webber, Institute of Race Relations).
In 2006, Statewatch and the Transnational Institute published Arming Big Brother, a briefing paper examining the development of the European Union’s Security Research Programme (ESRP). The ESRP is a seven year, €1.4 billion programme predicated on the need to deliver new security enhancing technologies to the Union’s member states in order to protect EU citizens from every conceivable threat to their security (understood here purely in terms of bodily safety). This follow-up report contains new research showing how the European Security Research Programme continues to be shaped by prominent transnational defence and security corporations and other vested interests. Though technically a Research and Development (R&D) programme, the ESRP is heavily focused on the application of security technologies (rather than objective research per se), and is increasingly aligned with EU policy in the fields of justice and home affairs (JHA, the ‘third pillar’), security and external defence (CFSP, the ‘second pillar’). |
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September 2009
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NeoConOpticon (PDF),
NeoConOpticon blog,
Statewatch,
Transnational Institute
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Ben Hayes, Statewatch, Transnational Institute |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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Website: Iraq Inquiry Digest -
Everything about the Chilcot Inquiry in one place |
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"This is a project to monitor and comment on the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. Its aim is both to inform and to provide a dynamic forum for comment and analysis as the Inquiry progresses. It seeks to provide a balance of views and opinion. Its objective is to be constructive and to provide reasoned and well argued comment." |
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2009
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Iraq Inquiry Digest homepage
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Various journalists |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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Responsibility to Protest - After Lockerbie (The Spokesman 106) |
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From the summary: In 1988, a Pan American passenger jet had been blown up while flying over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie en route for the United States. The evidence showed that a bomb had been secreted in passenger luggage. It had exploded in mid-air, killing all 259 passengers and another eleven were killed in the crash. Who could have conceived such an atrocity? The intelligence agencies of the world were not at a loss for an explanation. But they were flummoxed by the problem of how to present what they knew, or indeed, whether to present it. Libyan Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi was eventually sentenced by three Scottish Judges to life imprisonment, following a highly contentious trial in which the Scottish Courts sat in an American airbase in The Netherlands to hear the case of the Lockerbie bomb. Contents: Robert Black - Lockerbie and the Law
Hans Köchler - Unfair Trial
Marcello Mega - Lockerbie - the Cover-up
Tam Dalyell - The Crime of Lockerbie
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John Pilger - The Party of Criminal War
Noam Chomsky - Responsibility to Protest
Tony Blair - Pirate's Charter
Ken Coates - Benign Whitewash |
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2009
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Spokesman Journal,
Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation
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Russels Foundation, Ken Coates (editor) |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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Informationsbrief #102 2009 |
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This edition of the German critical lawyers' association RAV includes, amongst others, articles on state strategies to avoid compensation payments to victims of NAZI crimes with reference to the procedures launched by Italy against Germany before the International Criminal Court in The Hague; internet surveillance and civil liberties concerns; critique of the German anti-terrorism article 129a with reference to current trials and the use of evidence used in courts that was extracted by way of torture; amnesty internationals work on and advice for victims of police violence; and EU Member State practices of refusing citizens to leave their country in the run-up to protests against the NATO summit in Strassburg/Kehl earlier this year. |
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August 2009
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Informationsbrief #102 2009 (PDF),
RAV homepage
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Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälte Verein e.V. (RAV) |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 03 December 2009 |
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Press release: Out the Back Door: illegal deportations of refugees from Greece |
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European states party to the Dublin Convention may be in breach of the UN Refugee Convention by returning asylum seekers to Greece. In a report published today, NOAS, NHC and the Greek organization AITIMA show that refugees are subject to considerable risk of deportation from Greece without having their need for protection assessed.
The report presents the experiences of asylum seekers who have been deported across the border to Turkey under the cover of night, and who have not been given a chance to have their need for protection assessed in any European country. In Turkey, they run a considerable risk of being sent onwards, to their home country. |
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Press release (14 November 2009)
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Norwegian Helsinki Committee, NOAS and AITIMA |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 03 December 2009 |
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Reclaim your data from the European police authorities!
Campaign to exercise the right to access European databases |
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A European campaign against the mass collection and retention of personal data by European police authorities was launched at an event in Berlin on 1 October 2009. The campaign is supported by a variety of groups and individuals and aims for people to send data requests to European and national police agencies to find out if their data is being stored. The English call out for the campaign reads: "Throughout Europe, the data of millions of people is stored in information systems operated and checked by the police and intelligence services as a matter of course. The various national systems are supplemented by centralized databases such as the Schengen Information System (SIS) and databases operated by Europol. In addition, the Treaty of Prüm and the "Swedish Initiative" has led to increasing automation and facilitate rapid data exchange between national systems. [...] So to anyone who would like to know what the police (think they) know about you, or simply to register your dissent, we recommend exercising your right to access your own data by sending a request for information to the relevant police authority in your country. The digest received in response will help to give us an idea of the full extent of police access to citizen data, as well as serving as a starting point for getting your data out of the computer systems, by legal or political means." The campaign provides instructions on how to make a request to the authorities and provides background information on civil liberties concerns regarding data collection. |
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English campaign site,
Grundrechtkomitee about the campaign (German),
Flyer (English)
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gipfelsoli, Grundrechtekomitee |
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ECLN notice - meetings/conferences - added 03 December 2009 |
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Civil Liberties: are we placing ourselves at the mercy of the state? |
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This Democracy Forum will look at whether what can be viewed as our traditional British ‘apathy’ is allowing the state to pass legislation that scrutinises and controls us. Or, is such a dystopian view a wildly exaggerated response to what is merely the use of modern tools to tackle 21st century crime and terrorism?
The panel of speakers will give their views, followed by audience and panel discussion. Attendance to this event is free. If you would like to bring a guest please register them individually. If you know of anyone who would find this event of interest please feel free to pass on the invitation. If you cannot attend but have someone suitable who can attend in your place please feel free to pass this invite to them.
Please RSVP to Kate Egglestone on hans_admin@hansard.lse.ac.uk or 020 7438 1210 |
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Portcullis House, Westminster, London UK, Tuesday, 8 December, 6.30pm–8.00pm
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 16 October 2009 |
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Debunking the Council's Arguments Against Amendment 138 |
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"As the negotiations of the conciliation committee on the Telecoms Package unfold, the Council of the European Union came up with a new, alarming proposal. Member States offered to replace the notorious "amendment 138", an essential safeguard for citizen's freedom, with a dangerous "knock-off". But the new version is not only neutralizing citizens' protections adopted twice by 88% of the European Parliament; it reduces legal protections for online activites in an attempt to implement what looks like an open door to a repressive nightmare. On 6 October, La Quadrature sent to the Members of the European Parliament a letter to urge them to defend amendment 138, along with a memo debunking the Council's arguments about this fundamental provision." |
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Debunking the Council's arguments (Memo, PDF),
Press release (La Quadrature du Net, 7 October),
Amendment 138: Debunking the Council's arguments (Letter)
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La Quadrature du Net |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 16 October 2009 |
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Report of meeting: Exposing MI5 blackmail |
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Report by David Mery of a public meeting, Stop MI5 blackmail!, held at Camden Town Hall: Muslim community workers allegedly blackmailed and harassed by MI5 in an attempt to recruit them are exposing these threat tactics. When they refused to cooperate, MI5 acted on its threat and some were detained and interrogated on trips abroad. These six young men, working for the Kentish Town Community Organisation (KTCO) were first targeted by MI5 in 2008. In August last year, they started talking to the KTCO directors about the harassment. |
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30 September 2009
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Report (CAMPACC website)
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Campaign Against Criminalising Communities |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 16 October 2009 |
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Pat Finucane Centre Newsletter (Issue No 1) |
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"Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter, which will be produced every three months. We will bring you up-to-date with all the latest developments at The PFC such as upcoming events and keep you informed about general developments that impact on issues of importance to victims’ families." |
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September 2009
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Newsletter Issue 1 (PDF)
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The Pat Finucane Centre - for human rights and social change |
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