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international | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday October 07, 2003 15:57 by Statewatch - Statewatch.org office at statewatch dot org

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Independent civil liberties group Statewatch publishes here its regular update on the State in each European country as well as the emerging EU State itself.

1. Casualties in the so-called "war on terrorism"

- USA: Pakistani working in USA has visa revoked for no reason
- Canada: Government settles out of court for false accusation of terrorist
links
- Spain: Migrants sue over wrongful arrests
- UK: Algerian pilot suing US government
- CIA: UK citizen held for four weeks in Gambia

see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/10casualties.htm

2. European airlines are handing PNR data over to US Customs - Evidence
from Spain: Report & documents

- full documentation of all the data collected and passed over for one
return flight by one passenger
- full list of the 43 categories of personal data demanded by USA

see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/12pnrspain.htm

3. UK: Public consultation on proposed changes to publicly funded
immigration and asylum work: ILPA's response
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/13ilpa.htm

4. EU tells USA to stop making new requests to airlines for personal
passenger data
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/06bolkstein.htm

5. IRR News Service: Canary Islands tragedy: did the RAF put border
security before human safety?
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/07raf.htm

6. Head of Interpol highlights abuses in war on terror
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/05interpol.htm

7. Unprecedented complaint by the Europol Management Board about informal
requests for action by Council working parties by-passing legislative processes
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/03europol.htm

8. IGC Launch: European NGOs Publish Concerns Over Justice and Home Affairs
and Fundamental Rights Provisions in Draft Constitution
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/oct/01ngoigc.htm

9. European Parliament report opposes giving passenger data to USA without
strict data protection safeguards - and says if these are not met by 1
December all data transfers should stop. see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/sep/21euuspnr.htm

10. European Ombudsman calls for new Constitution to set up a system of
non-judicial remedies
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/sep/18omb.htm

also in "News in brief":
http://www.statewatch.org/news/Newsinbrief.htm

11. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 2-3 October, Brussels: Press release

12. UK: "The truth behind the MI6 facade: Governments should realise that
intelligence is often simply self-serving gossip - or just plain wrong" by
former UK diplomat

13. UNHCR says "safe countries" cannot be assumed to be "safe"

14. UK: ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) "Good Practice Guide
for Computer based Electronic Evidence"

15. New global survey on freedom of information: Survey

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