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The Council held an orientation debate on key elements of a draft framework decision on prevention and settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings, with a view to providing with political guidance to carry out further work. A large consensus has appeared on the opportunity to restrict the scope of the instrument to [...]
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In a new thematic report that will be discussed with states at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on the 10th of March, Martin Scheinin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the protection of Human Rights while countering terrorism, focuses on the role of intelligence agencies in the fight against terrorism and the accountability problems [...]
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P6_TA-PROV(2009)0073: European Parliament resolution of 19 February 2009 on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners was approved by the Parliament with a 334-247 vote.Parliamentarians confirmed Thursday that several EU member states had “been involved, or had cooperated actively or passively with the US authorities” [...]
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At the invitation of the Government, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism conducted a visit to Spain from 7 to 14 May 2008.
In the present report, (available here in English) the Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin, who is a law professor at the European [...]
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Notions of securityThis paper discusses definitions of security and gives a historical overview of this concept. In addition, several security related theories are discussed (such as realism, liberalism, and constructivism), and levels of analysis (system, state, individual levels). Finally, the authors take a look at how transnational terrorism fits into this theoretical framework.
The evolving threat [...]
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* USA Today on the use of commercial satellite imagery by federal agencies.
* CRS has an excellent overview of the human rights situation in China, read it here and an ‘Abbreviated Outline of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping’ here.
* The ‘right to know community’ has written a statement on ‘Moving Towards a 21st [...]
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Read it here.
The Assembly is particularly concerned that:
3.1. the judge determining the extension of a person’s detention may not be in a position to examine whether there exist reasonable grounds for suspecting that the arrested person has committed an offence;
3.2. legal assistance and representation by a lawyer may be inappropriately restricted or delayed;
3.3. information on [...]
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Read it here.UK’s replies here.
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