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January

EU: EU faces split on police powers

UK-Algeria: Return of Algerian Refugees: Statement from Gareth Peirce, lawyer

UK-COE: Convention on terrorism: "the Government cannot and should not ratify the Convention because the UK’s domestic law is not compatible with it"

Italy: G8-Genoa policemen's trial suspended as planted molotov cocktails disappear

Northern Ireland: Damning report on the use of informers and their links to murders

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission: Collusion report demonstrates need for effective scrutiny and accountability of national security

EU: NEW - Two draft Council Decisions to transpose parts of the Prum Treaty into EU law

UK: Home Office Research Study on: Exploring the decision making of Immigration Officers

UK: Serious Crimes Bill

EU: Prum confusion

EU: German Presidency admits Council is in a mess on draft Framework Decision on data protection in police and judicial matters and, unusually, is to ask Commission to prepare a "revised" proposal

Italy/Morocco: Renditions: Italian and European MPs set to request pardon for Abou Elkassim Britel

UK: Roll call of deaths of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants, 2005 onwards

EU: Statewatch analysis: Europol - The final step in the creation of an "Investigative and Operational" European Police Force

UK: Borders Bill

UK: "Human Rights and Human Wrongs"

EU: European Parliament inquiry into CIA rendition and detention inquiry report

Italy: Italian judge issues arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents involved in the kidnapping and rendition of Abu Omar to Egypt where he was tortured

EU: Prum Treaty Supplementary provisions

Germany: A court in Munich has issued arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents involved in the kidnapping and rendition of Khaled al-Masri who was abducted in 2003 in Macedonia, flown to a secret prison in Afghanistan and tortured