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02 October 2015

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Mass surveillance in Germany rebuked by Council of Europe (euractiv, link): "The Council of Europe has issued a damning indictment of mass surveillance in Germany. In a recent report on Germany, Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, criticises the fact that democratic control of the intelligence services is practically impossible and that mass surveillance can be carried out virtually unchecked.."

UK: Police watchdog calls for Taser guidance after inquest into fire death - IPCC recommends that officers be given more comprehensive guidance about use of stun guns in the presence of flammable liquids
(Guardian, link)

Germany: Pegida founder faces hate speech charges (The Local.de, link): "Lutz Bachmann, founder of Pegida ("Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West") has been charged by state prosecutors in Dresden with incitement to racial hatred. The charges by state prosecutors in Dresden go back to anti-immigration Facebook posts made by Bachmann in autumn 2014, which surfaced on the public internet in January."

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