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Statewatch News Online, 13 January 2006 (01/06)
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1. European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) to be launched in Italy on 19 January
2. EU: Report from the European Commission on: Visa waiver reciprocity
3. Racial violence round-up, by IRR News Team
4. Italy: Teenager beaten to death by police in Ferrara?
5. EU-USA: "Frank and non-diplomatic language" censored
6. UK: Arrest and stop and search figures for 2004-5
7. EU: Mandatory data retention vote in the European Parliament
8. EU-US: Renditions
9. European Federation of Journalists: Protecting our sources of
information
10. EU: Commission proposal on exchange of
information extracted from criminal records
11. EU: Policy Plan on Legal Migration
12. EU: Green Paper on ne bis in idem in criminal proceedings
13. Norway: No longer "aligned" to EU terrorist lists
14. UK: Terrorism Bill - as amended - 20 December 2005
15. Germany: Refugee from Cameroon threatened
with prison for resisting travel restrictions
16. EU: Austrian Presidency draft Agendas for the three JHA Councils
17. US-EU: Senate vote on Patriot Act
18. EU: "Unaccountable Europe" by Tony Bunyan (Statewatch editor)
19. EU: European Parliament to set up committee
to look into CIA detention centres
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1. European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) to be
launched in Italy on 19 January - and EU
discussing the creation of cross-border law enforcement "Special Task
Forces":
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/03eu-gendarmarie.htm
2. EU: Report from the European Commission on:
Visa waiver reciprocity (pdf) with certain third
countriesthe third countries whose nationals must
be in possession of visas when crossing the
external borders and those whose nationals are exempt:
See:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/visa-reciprocity-report-COM-06-003.p
df
3. Racial violence round-up, by IRR News Team (12
January 2006) Incidents of racial violence and
harassment that have taken place in the last
months of 2005 and also note the results of court
proceedings against perpetrators of attacks that took place after 7 July
2005:
See: http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/january/ha000015.html
4. Italy: Teenager beaten to death by police in Ferrara?
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/02italy-teenager.htm
5. EU-USA: "Frank and non-diplomatic language"
censored - Statewatch denied access to document to hide EU views on US
demands
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/01eu-us-doc-denied.htm
6. UK: Arrest and stop and search figures for 2004-5 (pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/uk-hosb-s-and-s.pdf
Over the year there were 851,200 "stop and
searches" under the Police and Criminal Evidence
Act (14% more than in 2003/4). Only 11% of those
stopped were arrested (13% in 2003/4). In
addition there were 41,300 stop and searches
under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and
Public Order Act 1994, with only 3% leading to an
arrest, while another 35,800 were stopped and
searched under S.44(1) and (2) of the Terrorism
Act 2000, 1.3% leading to an arrest.
See also: Surge in stop and search of Asian
people after July 7 (Guardian link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C5362857-110414%2C00.html
7. EU: Mandatory data retention vote in the
European Parliament on 14 December 2005:
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/ep-dat-ret-MEPs-voting.pdf
The final vote on the legislative resolution was
378 in favour, 197 against with 30 abstentions.
The Green/EFA and GUE (left group) voted against
while the ALDE (liberal group) split with 25 MEPs
voting in favour and 37 against (including Mr
Alvaro, the rapporteur). The two biggest parties,
the PSE (socialist group) and PPE (conservative
group) overwhelmingly voted in favour - 39 PPE
MEPs voted against (10 abstained) and 24 PSE MEPs voted against (2
abstained).
See also: Statewatch's Observatory on the
surveillance of telecommunications in the EU:
http://www.statewatch.org/eu-data-retention.htm
8. UK-Greece: MI6 Athens station chief named (Cryptome, link):
http://cryptome.org/br-gr-spies.htm
MI6 officer linked to abductions in Athens hunt
for Tube bombers (Guardian, link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C5363221-117079%2C00.html
Greece urged to investigate MI6 torture link
Athens MI6 station chief linked to abduction and
beating of 28 migrants from Pakistan. See also Athens News (link):
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13162&t=01&m=A03&
aa=1
Swiss claim proof that CIA ran Europe jails (Guardian, link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C5370707-110878%2C00.html
EU-wide warrant over 'CIA kidnap' (BBC, link):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4555660.stm
Abu Omar was allegedly kidnapped from a Milan
street An Italian court has issued Europe-wide
arrest warrants for 22 suspected CIA agents
accused of helping to kidnap a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003.
9. European Federation of Journalists: Protecting
our sources of information - why journalists need
to resist legal attacks (pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/ifj-sources-handbook.pdf
10. EU: Commission proposal for a Framework
Decision on: The organisation and content of the
exchange of information extracted from criminal
records between Member States (pdf): See:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/com-crim-records-690.pdf
11. EU: Policy Plan on Legal Migration (pdf)
Communication from the European Commission COM (2005) 669:
See:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/com-policy-plan-legal-mig-669.pdf
and Commission Staff Working Paper: Annex to
Policy Plan on Legal Migration (pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/com-migration-assess.pdf
See also European Commission proposals on:
Priority actions for responding to the challenges
of migration: First follow-up to Hampton Court (pdf)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/com-621-05-migration.pdf
12. EU: Green Paper from the European Commission:
On conflicts of jurisdiction and the principles
of ne bis in idem in criminal proceedings (pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/com-696-crim-juris.pdf
and Annex: Commission Staff Working Document (pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/com-696-crim-juris-annex.pdf
13. Norway-EU: The Norwegian government has
decided it will "no longer align itself with any
other [terrorist] list than that published by the
UN". In doing so it will not "align itself" with
the EU lists as this "could cause difficulties
for Norway in its role as neutral facilitator in
certain peace processes. The government further
notes that "it does not take part in the internal
assessments that lead to revisions of the EU
list": Press release: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pdf):
See:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/norway-EU-terror-list-5jan2006.pdf
See: Statewatch Observatory: "Terrorist" lists:
monitoring proscription, designation and
asset-freezing Updated, 3 January 2006:
http://www.statewatch.org/terrorlists/terrorlists.html
14. UK: Terrorism Bill - as amended - 20 December
2005 in Committee in the House of Lords:
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/nov/terrorism-Bill-9-11-05.pdf
15. Germany: Refugee from Cameroon threatened
with imprisonment for resisting travel restrictions imposed on asylum
seekers:
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/10germany-cornelius-yufanyi.htm
Synopsis: The German self-organised refugee group
The Voice and the Gvttinger Arbeitskreis zur
Unterst|tzung von Asylsuchenden e.V. is asking
for support in their campaign to stop the
imprisonment of Cornelius Yufanyi for fighting for his right to free
movement.
16. EU: Austrian Presidency draft Agendas for the
three Justice and Home Affairs Ministers' Councils (see pages 22-28. pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/jha-agendas-2006.pdf
Austrian and Finnish Presidencies of the Council
of the European Union:Programme for 2006 (see pages 40-45, pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/jha-measures-2006.pdf
This includes the heading "Strengthening freedom"
which is all about asylum, refugees and border
controls, whose "freedom" it might be asked.
17. US-EU: The US Senate voted on 16 December
2005 to refuse to renew the Patriot Act, see Reuters (link):
See:
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=200
5-12-17T011756Z_01_SIB572032_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-PATRIOT.xml
The reason was concerns over the lack of judicial
control and congressional oversight - two crucial
safeguards which the European Parliament agreed
to remove from the EU Directive on mandatory data
retention, see: Statewatch's Observatory on the
surveillance of telecommunications in the EU:
http://www.statewatch.org/eu-data-retention.htm
18. EU: "Unaccountable Europe" by Tony Bunyan
(Statewatch editor) in Special issue of Index on
Censorship: "Big Brother Goes Global"
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/09unaccountable-europe.htm
19. EU: European Parliament to set up committee
to look into CIA detention centres
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/dec/08ep-committee-CIA-camps.htm
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