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Subject: Statewatch News Online, 20 June 2006 (14/06)
Statewatch News Online, 20 June 2006 (14/06)
Full contents see: http://www.statewatch.org
1. EU: European Agency for the Management of External Borders
(FRONTEX) - Annual Report 2005
2. EU: Annual Report: Network of Experts on Fundamental Rights in
the European Union in 2005
3. EU: International Federation of Journalists call for
journalists to be protected
4. USA: General Accountability Office slates "Secure Flight" plans
to check air travel:
5. EU: European Council, 15-16 June: Conclusions
6. EU: Data protection on police and judicial matters: Report
adopted by European Parliament
7. Freedom of Information: The Manchester Declaration signed by
twenty-eight NGOs
8. Shetland: Huge turnout for Sakchai arrest rally - 800 people at
protest meeting
9. EU: CIA flights/rendition: New report from the
Secretary-General of the Council of Europe
10. Amnesty International report: Partners in Crime: Europe's role
in US renditions
11. European Parliamen: Interim report adopted on CIA flights and rendtion
12. UK-London: CAMPACC statement: Police invasion of Forest Gate:
"anti-terror raid" or psychological warfare?
13. EU-USA PNR agreement - letters
14. European Data Protection Supervisor: Comments on ECJ judgment on PNR
15. London: Seminar - Institute of Race Relations: Abu Ghraib,
imprisonment and the war on terror
16. UK: House of Lords report on the Legialative and Regulatory Powers
Bill:
17. London: Children: Over Surveilled, Under Protected. Conference
18. Council of Europe: 14 European countries colluded in CIA renditions
19. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 1-2 June
20. EU: "Tamil Tigers" added to EU "terrorist" list
1. EU: European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation
at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union
(FRONTEX): FRONTEX Annual Report for 2005:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/frontex-report-2005.pdf
2. EU: Annual Report of the Network of Experts on Fundamental Rights
on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2005
(292pp, pdf) Another excellent annual report:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/EU-funrights-report05.pdf
Executive summary:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/CFR-CDF-exec-summ-2005.pdf
Individual country reports are on: http://www.cpdr.ucl.ac.be/cridho
3.. EU: International Federation of Journalists call for journalists
to be protected:
Letter to the Commission:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/ifj-barroso-jun-06.pdf
Letter to the European Parliament:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/ifj-borrell-jun-06.pdf
Dutch spies allowed to tap journalists' calls (link, Expatica):
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=303
96&name=Dutch+spies+allowed+to+tap+journalists'+calls
Germany: Press freedom law to protect journalists after raids
(Statewatch bulletin):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/04germany-journalists-under-attack.h
tm
4. USA: General Accountability Office slates "Secure Flight" plans to
check air travel:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/us-goa-secure-flight.pdf
See also Edward Hasbrouck's comments (link):
http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001073.html
5. EU: European Council (25 governments) 15-16 June: Agreed
Conclusions (pdf) See pages 3-8 on justice and home affairs matters:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/eu-june-06-summit-concl.pdf
6. EU: Data protection proposal on police and judicial matters:
Report adopted by European Parliament plenary session - under the
consultation procedure (link):
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/omk/sipade3?TYPE-DOC=TA&REF=P6-TA-2006-0258&MO
DE=SIP&L=EN&LSTDOC=N
Report by rapporteur Martine Roure in Committee on Civil Liberties:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/eu-dprot-roure-ep.pdf
Commission proposal:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/eu-dprot-com-475.pdf
7. Freedom of Information: The Manchester Declaration:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/manchester-declaration.pdf
Civil Society Organisations meeting in Manchester on the occasion of
the 4th International Conference of Information Commissioners agreed
this Declaration. It is signed by 28 NGOs.
8. Shetland: Latest: Huge turnout for Sakchai rally - 800 people at
protest meeting:
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/06_2006/huge_turnout_for
_sakchai_rally.htm
Pressure is growing on the Immigration Nationality Directorate to
justify their treatment of a Thai born Shetlander who was arrested by
immigration officers (Shetland Times, link):
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/06_2006/pressure_grows_f
or_sakchai%27s_release.htm
Church of Scotland kirk's presbytery clerk in Lerwick, Reverend
Charles Greig, wrote: "I hesitate to use the phrase but I will - this
was nothing short of a 'terrorist
attack' carried out in a dawn raid. A 'terrorist' is surely one who
terrorises - is there any other term for what was done to this
unsuspecting young man?"
Petition:
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/06_2006/petition_to_liam
_byrne_mp.htm
9. EU: CIA flights/rendition: New report from the Secretary-General
of the Council of Europe: Supplementary report by the Secretary
General on people detained or removed:
http://www.statewatch.org/cia/reports/coe-sg-14-jun-06.pdf
CoE press release: 14 June 2006 (link):
https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1009913&BackColorInternet=F5CA75&BackColo
rIntranet=F5CA75&BackColorLogged=A9BACE
Additional information from CoE member states (link):
http://www.coe.int/t/E/Com/Files/Events/2006-CIA/annexes2/annexes2.asp
See for full background Statewatch's Observatory - full-text reports
and 188 documents:
http://www.statewatch.org/rendition/rendition.html
10. Amnesty International report: Partners in Crime: Europe's role in
US renditions:
http://www.statewatch.org/cia/documents/Partners_in_crime_14062006.pdf
11. MEPs: CIA "directly responsible" for abduction, detention and
extraordinary renditions in Europe: European Parliament inquiry
adopts interim report on CIA flights and rendtion Text of the Interim
report:
http://www.statewatch.org/cia/reports/ep-cia-interim-report-english-final.pd
f
Press release:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/03-ep-report-on-cia-flights.htm
NEW: Contribution of the Rapporteur: Research on the planes used by
the CIA - highly detailed 72 page report:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/ep-cia-inq-research-report-Rapporteu
r.pdf
12. UK-London: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)
statement, 9 June 2006: Police invasion of Forest Gate: "anti-terror
raid" or psychological warfare? See:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/campacc-forest-gate-raid.pdf
13. EU-USA PNR agreement: Letters sent by President Borrell of the
European Parliament on the consequences of the Court case of 30 May
on passenger name records (PNR):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/eu-usa-pnr-borrell-letter2.pdf
14. European Data Protection Supervisor: Comments on ECJ judgment on
PNR: "seems to create a loophole in the protection of the European
citizen since it is no longer assured that data collected for
commercial purposes but used by police are protected by the data
protection directive":
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/02edps-pnr-judgment.htm
See Statewatch's Observatory on EU-USA PNR:
http://www.statewatch.org/pnrobservatory.htm
15. London: Lunchtime seminar at the Institute of Race Relations: Abu
Ghraib, imprisonment and the war on terror (link):
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/june/rw000013.html
Monday, 26 June 2006 at 1pm. Speaker: Avery Gordon (Professor of
Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of
Keeping Good Time: Knowledge, Power and People, Ghostly Matters:
Haunting the Sociological Imagination and Mapping Multiculturalism).
Chair: Jeremy Corbyn MP
16. UK: Report from the Consitutional Affairs Committee of the House
of Lords on the Legialative and Regulatory Powers Bill:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/uk-hol-legis-reg-bill-report.pdf
Lord Holme, the chairman of the committee, said:
"The simple fact that ministers failed to recognise the profound
constitutional importance of the legislative and regulatory reform
bill does not inspire confidence that they would not use delegated
powers to introduce constitutional change in the future, without even
realising what they are doing. The way this bill has been handled
shows that with our unwritten constitution, simple legislative
proposals can drastically affect our law making system and the
fundamental relationship between parliament and ministers."
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (as at 17 May 2006, pdf):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/uk-hol-legis-reg-bill-17-05-06.pdf
Explanatory Note:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/feb/uk-legislation-reform-bill-explan.pd
f
17. London: Children: Over Surveilled, Under Protected. Conference to
be held at the London School of Economics, 27 June 2006, 2.00 p.m -
5.00 p.m (link)
http://childrenoversurveilled.lse.ac.uk/
18. Council of Europe: 14 European countries colluded in CIA
renditions, 7 accused of rights violations (COE report):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/COE-EM-rendition-7-6-06.pdf
The latest report by the Council of Europe on "Alleged secret
detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving Council of
Europe member states" has said that 7 countries - Sweden,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Britain, Italy, Macedonia, Germany and Turkey -
could be held responsible for "violations of the rights of specific
persons" in connection with the CIA's rendition programme. Spain,
Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland are also
accused of "collusion" with the United States. Rapporteur Dick Marty
said there were also corroborated facts to suggest that Romania and
Poland were detainee drop-off points near to secret detention
centres: "Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term,
is not as yet available, a number of coherent and converging elements
indicate that such secret detention centres did indeed exist in Europe".
The COE has produced a map showing stopover points, staging points,
pick-up points and detainee transfer/drop off points: Global
''spiders web'' of secret detentions and unlawful "renditions":
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/01COEmap.htm
19. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 1-2 June: press release:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/June06-JHA-prel.pdf
Agenda:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/June06-JHA-agenda.pdf
"A points" (adopted without debate):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/June06-JHA-Apts.pdf
Background note:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jun/June06-JHA-brgd.pdf
20. EU: "Tamil Tigers" added to EU "terrorist" list:
http://www.statewatch.org/terrorlists/terrorlists.html
The formal EU decision was taken on 29 May 2006, following earlier
threats to do so. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have
already been proscribed by the UK, US and Canada. Anton Balasingham,
the Tamil Tigers' chief negotiator, commented:
"Further proscriptions will invigorate the hardline [Sinhalese]
elements in the south, including those in the present Sri Lankan
government urging the military defeat of the LTTE and silence those
advocating a negotiated solution... The more the international
community alienates the LTTE, the more the LTTE will be compelled to
tread a hardline individualist path.''
The EU declares itself "fully committed to the peace process in Sri
Lanka" and recognises that the "upsurge in violence is not caused by
the LTTE alone". It sees no contradiction in banning the LTTE,
freezing its funds and assets and prohibiting financial support while
only "strongly urging the Sri Lankan authorities to curb violence in
Government controlled areas".
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