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Justice In A Broken World by Professor David Andress - Saturday 14 March 2020, London
"The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture published on Tuesday a highly critical report on a detention centre in Denmark."
"The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology in public areas for up to five years, to give it time to work out how to prevent abuses, according to proposals seen by Reuters."
"A counter-terrorism police document distributed to medical staff and teachers as part of anti-extremism briefings included Greenpeace, Peta and other non-violent groups as well as neo-Nazis, the Guardian has learned."
A new study examining media coverage of migration in different EU states.
The EU is pressing ahead with attempts to ensure that police retain the power to wiretap 5G telecoms networks.
"Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales can start bidding today to equip more of their officers with tasers as part of a Home Office drive to give police more powers and tools to tackle crime."
The threats to rights and liberties posed by the Conservative government's programme.
"Refugees and migrants trying to make their journey into Europe are facing increasingly hostile conditions - forcing them to take huge risks to their safety."
A document setting out UNHCR's priorities for EU policy on asylum in the coming year.
first Council ideas for a Strategic Agenda (2019-2024), nicknamed "Tampere II"
"Serious incidents erupted in the town hall of the island of Chios on Monday night, where Deputy Minister of Labor, Notis Mitarakis was booed and became the target of protesters angry over the government’s migration policy and the creation of a new structure for refugees and migrants."
"The Greek government has decided to build 10 new facilities to house 15,000 migrants, as new irregular arrivals from neighbouring Turkey continue."
An official review of police action against 'county lines' drugs gangs has said that the possibility for people to purchase and use mobile phone SIM cards anonymously "enables criminality" and that the Home Office "should commission a review of the criminal abuse of mobile telecommunications services" by the end of 2020.
An article exploring the use of criminal law powers against undocumented migrants in the north of England.
The Irish authorities are still using surveillance powers that have been ruled illegal by both EU and domestic courts.
"Greece's coast guard reports that 12 bodies of migrants have been collected from the Ionian Sea, southwest of the Greek island of Paxos in western Greece, after their boat took in water and sank."
The UK Home Secretary has defended the inclusion of the non-violent protest group Extinction Rebellion in a police document on extremist ideologies. This is the latest in a long line of non-violent individuals and campaign groups being labelled as "extremist" by the police.
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