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01 September 1999

Informer admits RUC role in Finucane murder, Padraig MacDabhaid. An Phoblacht/Republican News 1.7.99. Sinn Fein have called for a fully independent inquiry into the circumstances of the loyalist murder of human-rights solicitor Pat Finucane. The call follows revelations by ex-UDR soldier and UDA quartermaster, William Stobie, that he was a police informer at the time of his involvement in the killing.

Hungary's purge on security services, Tamas Orszag-Land. International Police Review Issue 14 (September/October) 1999, p25. Noting that "European Union candidates are having to invest heavily to improve the policing of their frontiers", this article looks at a task force to weed out corruption within the Customs and border guard service. With 26 officers under investigation Interior minister, Sandor Pinter, has announced a ú10m scheme to "confront illegal migration in preparation for the country's accession to the EU early in the next decade."

"Work with us and you can stay", James Meek, Guardian 21.9.99, pp4-5. Shafiq Ur Rehman, imam at an Oldham mosque, was threatened with deportation after being falsely accused of recruiting young British Muslims for a terrorist organisation in Kashmir by the Home Office. However, Rehman was interviewed not by immigration officials but by officers from the Special Branch and MI5 who threatened to deport him if he refused to become an informer. Despite a court ruling in Rehman's favour (which saw MI5 and MI6 openly testify in court for the first time) the Home Office plans to appeal.