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Subject: [Statewatch] News Online, 21 November 2006 (27/06)
Statewatch News Online, 21 November 2006 (27/06)
Home page: <http://www.statewatch.org>
1. EU: The European Commission adopted changes to the SIRENE manual
2. EU: Observatory on data protection in police and judicial matters -
latest drafts
3. Shetland: An accolade for the local community
4. Malta: British High Commission issues first (real) biometric visas
5. Ottawa Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human Rights
6. UK: Joint Human Right Committee: Human Rights Act reviews
7. EU-CIA-RENDITION: What happened at dinner?
8. EU: European Commission: Practical Handbook for Border Guards
9. UK: The Rules of the Game - Terrorism, Community and Human Rights
10. Denmark: Rebellion: Copenhagen International Conference
11. Arms without borders - report from Amnesty Interntional, IANSA and
Oxfam
12. Germany: Bundesrat gives the green light to identity number
13. UK: Speech by Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Met Police,on
terrorism and crime
14. UK: Campaigner Against American Bases Walks Free
15. UK: Speech by the Director-General of MI5 (the Security Service)
16. UK: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 becomes law
17. UN Human Rights Committee: Sweden broke the international
prohibition against torture
18. Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Launch of consultation on forensic
use of bioinformation
19. CIA-Rendition: European Commission for Democracy through Law
20. EU: Annual report of the UK House of Lords Select Committee on the EU
21. EU: Directive on the financial system: money laundering and
terrorist financing
22. Belgium: Testimony of four guards working in a Belgian detention
center
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1. EU: The European Commission adopted changes to the SIRENE manual on 22
September. This governs the transfer of data/files from national Sirene
offices after a search on the Schengen Information System (SIS):
Commission Decision: 757/2006:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/sis-sirene-manual.pdf>
Commission Decision: 758/2007:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/sis-sirene-manual2.pdf>
2. EU: Observatory on data protection in police and judicial matters -
updated with the latest drafts (17 November) and questions:
<http://www.statewatch.org/eu-dp.htm>
3. Shetland: An accolade for the local community (Shetland News, link):
<http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/11_2006/an_honour_for_t
he_local_community.htm>
The community led campaign to prevent the deportation of Lerwick man
Sakchai Makao back to his native Thailand was honoured last night at a
ceremony in Glasgow.
4. Malta: British High Commission issues first (real) biometric visa
(press release):
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/malta-biometric-visa-press-release.
pdf>
Background:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/malta-biometric-visas_.pdf>
5. Ottawa Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human Rights (full-text):
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/ottawa-principles.pdf>
In June 2006, experts on human rights and terrorism met in their
individual capacities at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Canada to develop the following Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human
Rights. They shared a common view that the preservation of human rights -
not least the right to life - is the central motivator of anti-terrorism.
They also believed that human rights constitute an elemental and immutable
constraint on how anti-terrorism is conducted. The struggle for collective
security must not be an assault on the individual's life, liberty and
security of the person. This document is the product of their
deliberations.
6. UK: Joint Human Right Committee report: The Human Rights Act: the
Department of Constitutional Affairs and Home Office Reviews (pdf).
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/uk-jt-hr-cttee-hra.pdf>
7. EU-CIA-RENDITION: What happened at dinner?
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/eu-cia-what-happened-at-dinner.pdf>
8. EU: European Commission: Recommendation establishing a common
"Practical Handbook for Border Guards (Schengen Handbook)" to be used by
Member States' competent authorities when carrying out the border control
of persons (pdf, COM 5186)
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/eu-schengen-handbook-com.pdf>
9. UK: The Rules of the Game - Terrorism, Community and Human Rights by
Andrew Blick, Tufyal Choudhury and Stuart Weir. A report by Democratic
Audit for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/uk-rules-of-the-game.pdf>
10. Denmark: Rebellion: Copenhagen International Conference:
Anti-terrorism legislation, political rights and international solidarity
Saturday 18 November 2006:
Declaration:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/denmark-rebellion-declaration.pdf>
11. Arms without borders - report from Amnesty Interntional, IANSA and
Oxfam on: Why a globalised trade needs global controls
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/arms-without-borders.pdf>
12. Germany: Bundesrat gives the green light to identity number (link,
Heise online):
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/80622>
"All citizens of the Federal Republic, toddlers and octogenarians
included, will hence from July 2007 onwards be assigned an identity number
by the Federal Central Tax Office. The hitherto dispersed data stocks at
some 5,500 registration offices encompassing the approximately 80 million
persons registered in Germany will thereafter for the first time be
managed centrally"
13. UK: Speech by Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police,
11 November 2006 in Berlin: Urban Age Summit Speech on terrorism and crime
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/uk-ian-blair-speech-nov.pdf>
14. UK: Campaigner Against American Bases Walks Free:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/uk-us-bases-press-release.pdf>
15. Speech by the Director-General of MI5 (the Security Service) on: "The
international terrorist threat to the UK" on 9 November 2006: Full-text of
speech (pdf):
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/dg-mi5-on-terrorism-uk.pdf>
Commentary: MI5: 30 terror plots being planned in UK - Intelligence chief
says 200 networks currently under surveillance, Richard Norton-Taylor
(Guardian, link):
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C%2C329623963-117700%2C00.html>
16. UK: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 becomes law (pdf)
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/legis-reg-reform-Act-2006.pdf>
17. Sweden: UN Human Rights Committee finds that Sweden broke the
international prohibition against torture. The case concerned the
rendition of two Egyptians from Sweden 2001 by undercover US and Egyptian
agents. The UN Committee also states that the treatment of the two men on
Swedish soil (Bromma Airport in Sweden) in connection with the rendition
was a breach of the ban on torture and inhuman treatment.
Full text of: UN Human Rights Committee Decision, 6 November 2006:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/sweden-UN-decision-M-Alzery.pdf>
Statewatch coverage: Sweden: Expulsions carried out by US agents, men
tortured in Egypt and Update
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/may/12sweden.htm>
18. Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Launch of consultation on forensic use
of bioinformation (pdf)
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/nuffield-bioinformation.pdf>
The Council would like to hear about your views on a number of questions
raised by the ethical issues surrounding the forensic use of
bioinformation.
19. CIA-Rendition: European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice
Commission)
"Extraordinary rendition - a European Perspective" speech by Olivier
Dutheillet de Lamothe (Substitute member, France) (Cardozo School of Law,
25 September 2006 - "Bauer Lecture"):
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/venice-commission-rendition-speech.
pdf>
20. EU: Annual report of the UK House of Lords Select Committee on the
European Union:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/uk-hol-eu-annual-report.pdf>
21. EU: Directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for
the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/eu-financial-transaction-dir.pdf>
Press release:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/eu-financial-transaction-prel.pdf>
This measure is intended to combat money-laundering and terrorist
financing. It covers many forms of financial transactions including those
over 15,000 euros which raise suspicions of financial institutions and for
which there is no plausible explanation. There are no data protection
provisions but the Directive comes under the 1995 EC Directive on data
protection. However, Article 28 which says: "The institutions and persons
covered by this Directive and their directors and employees shall not
disclose to the customer concerned or to other third persons the fact that
information has been transmitted..." is contrary to the rights set out in
Articles 10 and 11 of the 1995 Directive on the right of the individual to
be informed. Article 27 allows data to be passed to: "a third country
which imposes requirements equivalent to those laid down in this
Directive, and that they are from the same professional category and are
subject to equivalent obligations as regards professional secrecy and
personal data protection." - which, theoretically, would prohibit data
being passed to the USA.
22. A Belgian weekly magazine published last week the testimony of 4
guards working in a Belgian detention centre. They report very serious
practices which qualify as inhuman or degrading treatments: Full report
(French, pdf):
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/nov/rapport-etat-des-lieux-centres-ferm
es.pdf>
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