31 October 2005
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More openness or just a drop in the ocean? The need for Freedom of Information in the EU
Germany: Attempt to ban pro-Kurdish newspaper fails
UK: ID card benefits “exaggerated”
UK/Cuba: Amnesty calls for UK action on Guantanamo hunger strike
Netherlands: Eleven die in fire at “unsafe” detention centre
UK: Asylum seeker found hanged at Yarl’s Wood
UK: RAF officer refuses to serve in unlawful war
Spain: Concern over proceedings in Basque youth association trial
Spain: Access to information: Galicia
UK/Iraq: Families fight to force independent war inquiry
Spain: Military jet crashes into house, killing three
Italy: Worrying trends in Interior Ministry report on security
UK: New generation of shock weapons
Austria: Death of Seibane Wague
UK: Controlling prison numbers?
UK: A duty of care
UK: Inquest into the death of Arif Hussain
Features
The European Civil Liberties Network
Why terror and terrorism are the greatest test of modern journalism by Aidan White
Checking and balancing polity-building in the EU by Deirdre Curtin
The “War on terror” - Lessons from Northern Ireland by Paddy Hillyard
“The rules of the game”? by A. Sivanandan
Lex Vigilatoria - Towards a control system without a state? by Thomas Mathiesen
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