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	<title>The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism</title>
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		<title>Big fall in UK police use of stop-and search powers</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/big-fall-in-uk-police-use-of-stop-and-search-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports that Home Office figures show that there has been a sharp fall this year in the police use of counter-terror stop and search powers in the wake of a public outcry over their discriminatory nature. The Home Office figures show that during the first three months of 2009-10 – April to June [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3978&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philippines Declares State of Emergency in Mindanao, habeas corpus suspended</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government of the Philippines has declared a state of emergency in parts of the south after a massacre of at least 46 people, including 12 journalists. Press freedom groups have condemned the attack as the worst in history and express skepticism that those responsible will be brought to justice.
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		<title>7 suspects charged over Mumbai attack</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/7-suspects-charged-over-mumbai-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgetown SLB reports that seven suspects arrested in connection with last year&#8217;s attacks on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai were charged in connection with the siege Wednesday. Alyas Saddiqi, the defense attorney representing suspect Jameel Ahmed, said the defendants were charged with acts of terrorism, money laundering, supplying funds for terrorism, and providing tools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3974&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wants computer privacy ruling overturned</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/obama-wants-computer-privacy-ruling-overturned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgetown SLB reports that the Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals’ 9-2 decision in August offered Miranda-style guidelines to prosecutors and judges on how to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights while conducting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3972&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dozens arrested over &#8216;Basque separatist ties&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/dozens-arrested-over-basque-separatist-ties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgetown SLB reports that police early Tuesday arrested 34 people suspected of belonging to the leadership of a youth wing of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA, Spain&#8217;s Interior Ministry said in a statement. The youths detained would not yet be members of ETA, which is blamed for more than 800 deaths, but are suspected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3970&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New HRW report on British complicity in torture in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/new-hrw-report-on-british-complicity-in-torture-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 46-page report, “Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan,” provides accounts from victims and their families in the cases of five UK citizens of Pakistani origin — Salahuddin Amin, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Rangzieb Ahmed, Rashid Rauf and a fifth individual who wishes to remain anonymous — tortured in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3968&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European Parliament adopts resolution on Stockholm Programme</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/european-parliament-adopts-resolution-on-stockholm-programme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were a lot of amendments, separate votes and split votes, so we have to wait a few days for the final consolidated text. What is important though is that one amendment made it to the final text, which deals with the infamous &#8216;balancing&#8217; metaphor:
The European Parliament
&#8220;&#8230; stresses that the EU is rooted in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3966&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New KROC publication: Human rights and targeted sanctions, strengthening due process procedures</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/new-kroc-publication-human-rights-and-targeted-sanctions-strengthening-due-process-procedures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Listings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sanctions and Security Research Program (SSRP) of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has issued its latest research report, Human Rights and Targeted Sanctions: An Action Agenda for Strengthening Due Process Procedures.

The paper offers a timely menu of policy options for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3964&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chairperson of the Committee Against Torture- summary of draft general comment No. 3 (Implementation of a systematic approach to the evaluation of facts and evidence for the individual complaints procedure under articles 3 and 22)</title>
		<link>http://legalift.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/chairperson-of-the-committee-against-torture-summary-of-draft-general-comment-no-3-implementation-of-a-systematic-approach-to-the-evaluation-of-facts-and-evidence-for-the-individual-complaints-proc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<title>TSA behaviour detection officers check for dangerous people</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgetown SLB reports that to identify dangerous people, the Transportation Security Administration stations behavior-detection officers at 161 US airports, including ones in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles. The officers can be anywhere, from the parking garage to the gate, looking for passengers who seem highly nervous or stressed. They don&#8217;t focus on nationality, race, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&blog=5069658&post=3960&subd=legalift&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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