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1.   LIBYA-UNHCR: Migreurop statement: the bid is rising, migrants pay the price
2.   EU-TRAFFICKING: Council: Latest draft: preventing and combating trafficking in human beings
3.   UK: Stop and search used illegally against thousands
4.   EU: UK monitors suspected radicals as part of European surveillance project
5.   UN: BC Civil Liberties Association/ICLMG: Rights groups challenge United Nations blacklist in court
6.   USA: Physicians for Human Rights: Experiments in torture: ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program
7.   EU: Eurodac Supervision Coordination Group (EDPS): Coordinated Supervision of Eurodac: Activity Report
8.   EU: Commission: Annual Report 2009: On Relations between the Commission and National Parliaments
9.   EU: Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) report: Becoming vulnerable in Europe
10. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 3-4 June 2010
11. EU: Commission: “Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme”
12. UK: Statewatch: UK Government’s “clumsy, indiscriminate and disproportionate” approach to DNA retention
13. Italy: Statewatch analysis: Shocking death spotlights prisoners’ plight
14. EU: EU-US and Member States 2010 Declaration on Counterterrorism
15. UK: Statewatch: Shock and anger at the violent policing tactics used at the G8 Summit
16. Italy: Statewatch: The internal and external fronts: security package and returns to Libya
17. Germany: Statewatch: Federal Republic’s security services from the Cold War to the “new security architecture”
18. EU: Musical chairs in Brussels
19. Slovakia/Algeria: Expulsion contravenes ECtHR orders
20. UK: Bill to abolish ID cards published: Identity Documents Bill
1. LIBYA-UNHCR: Migreurop statement: UNHCR-Libya : the bid is rising, migrants pay the price (link):
www.migreurop.org/article1716.html

– French: www.migreurop.org/article1713.html
– Italian: www.migreurop.org/article1715.html
– Spanish: www.migreurop.org/article1714.html

See: Libya ‘expels’ UN refugee agency UNHCR (BBC News, link):
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10264625.stm

2. EU-TRAFFICKING: Council of the European Union: Latest draft: General approach: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings (EU doc no: 10845/10):
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-council-trafficking-proposal-10845-10.pdf

3. UK: Stop and search used illegally against thousands (Guardian, link):
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/10/anti-terror-law-illegal-stop-search/print

“Tens of thousands of people have been stopped in the street and searched unlawfully under controversial section 44 anti-terrorism powers, the Home Office has revealed.”

4. EU: UK monitors suspected radicals as part of European surveillance project – Police keep tabs on activists from across the political spectrum, documents obtained by EU civil liberties NGO reveal (Guardian, link):
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/08/uk-monitors-susp/print

And see: Statewatch analysis: Intensive surveillance of “violent radicalisation” extended to embrace suspected ‘radicals’ from across the political spectrum: Targets include: “Extreme right/left, Islamist, nationalist, anti-globalisation etc”  by Tony Bunyan:
www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-98-eu-surveillance-of-radicals.pdf

See: Council of the European Union: Instrument for compiling data and information on violent radicalisation processes (EU doc no: 7984/10 ADD 1):
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/apr/eu-council-rad-instrument-7984-add1-10.pdf

This adds to another plan on Protests in the EU: ‘Troublemakers’ and ‘travelling violent offenders [undefined] to be recorded on database and targeted (Statewatch analysis): www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-93-troublemakers-apr-10.pdf

5. UN: British Columbia Civil Liberties Association / International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group: Rights groups challenge United Nations blacklist in court:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/iclmg-terr-list-challenge.pdf

6. USA: Physicians for Human Rights: Experiments in torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the “Enhanced” Interrogation Program:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/usa-experiments-in-torture-PHR-CIA-rapport.pdf

7. EU: Eurodac Supervision Coordination Group (EDPS): Coordinated Supervision of Eurodac: Activity Report 2008-2009:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-eurodac-edps-supervision-report.pdf

8. EU: European Commission: Annual Report 2009: On Relations between the Commission and National Parliaments:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-com-national-parls-com-291.pdf

9. EU: Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) report: Becoming vulnerable in Europe: Civil Society Report on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union (The DEVAS Project) (link):
www.jrseurope.org/publications/JRS-Europe_Becoming%20Vulnerable%20In%20Detention_June%202010_FULL%20REPORT.pdf

10. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 3-4 June 2010:

– Press Release: www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-3-4-june-10-press-release.pdf
– “B” Points Agenda: www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-3-4-june-10-b-points.pdf
– “A” Points Agenda: Legislative: www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-3-4-june-10-a-points-legislative.pdf
plus ADD 1: www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-3-4-june-10-a-points-legislative-2.pdf
– “A” Points Agenda: Non-Legislative: www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-3-4-june-10-a-points-non-legislative.pdf
plus ADD 1: www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-3-4-june-10-a-points-non-legislative-2.pdf

11. EU: Commission communication: “Delivering an area of freedom, security and justice for Europe’s citizens – Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme”:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-com-action-plan-stockholm-programme-com-171-10.pdf

plus: JHA Council conclusions on Commission communication:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-jha-council-jun-10-stockholm-programme-action-plan-conclusions.pdf

12. UK: Statewatch analysis: UK Government’s “clumsy, indiscriminate and disproportionate” approach to DNA retention by Max Rowlands:
www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-101-uk-dna.pdf

The UK government intends to keep innocent people on the national DNA database for six years despite the European Court of Human Rights having ruled the practice to be unlawful.

13. Italy: Statewatch analysis: Shocking death spotlights prisoners’ plight by Yasha Maccanico:
www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-103-italy-prisons.pdf

The case of Stefano Cucchi, who died in hospital after being beaten in police custody, highlights the routine abuses that occur in Italian prisons and police stations and the lack of accountability of those responsible.

14. EU: EU-US and Member States 2010 Declaration on Counterterrorism adopted by JHA Council, 3 June 2010:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/eu-us-counterterrorism-declaration.pdf

15. UK: Statewatch analysis: Shock and anger at the violent policing tactics used at the G8 Summit, Parts 1 & 2 by Trevor Hemmings:
www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-99-g8-london.pdf

Part 1 looks at the policing of the G20 summit in London in April 2009 which was severely criticised following an allegation of manslaughter and 270 complaints of police assault. Part 2 specifically examines the aftermath in which community organisations highlighted longstanding problems of police indiscipline and official inquiries developed strategies for future protests.

16. Italy: Statewatch analysis: The internal and external fronts: security package and returns to Libya by Yasha Maccanico:
www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-100-italy-internal-external-fronts.pdf

The ‘security package’ introduced under Law 94/2009 turns a number of decrees into law. Exceptional measures allegedly to meet ‘emergencies’ are targeted at refugees, migrants, Roma and direct refoulments to Libya.

17. Germany: Statewatch analysis: The Federal Republic’s security services from the Cold War to the “new security architecture” by Norbet Putter:
www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-102-germany-security-services.pdf

With the end of the Cold War, the (West) German security services lost their central surveillance target and thereby their legitimacy. The crisis was brief and new roles were swiftly found. More so than ever before, the intelligence agencies became interlinked with other security authorities.

18. EU: Musical chairs in Brussels: The European Commission has finally decided that its Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs should be split into two and have two Director-Generals (See: Comment: Statewatch News Online, January 2010). One will head Home Affairs (Internal security and immigration) and the other Fundamental Rights (Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship).

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

“So there will now be two Commissioners (Mallstrom and Reding) and two Directorate-Generals. Perhaps the Council of the Council of the European Union should follow this logic and split the Justice and Home Affairs Council into two as well? After all, it has just split the General Affairs Council and the Foreign Affairs Council.”

19. Slovakia/Algeria: Expulsion contravenes ECtHR orders:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/may/02slovakia-algeria.htm

“On 28 April 2010, Amnesty International (AI) issued a public statement criticising the expulsion of Mustapha Labsi from Slovakia to Algeria on 19 April in spite of an order dated 13 August 2008 from the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) blocking it until all appeals on his asylum claim in Slovakia had been completed.”

20. UK: Bill to abolish ID cards published: Identity Documents Bill:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/may/uk-id-card-abolition-bill.pdf

and Explanatory Memorandum:
www.statewatch.org/news/2010/may/uk-id-card-abolition-bill-em.pdf

The UK government’s programme on civil liberties states: “The Government believes that the British state has become too authoritarian, and that over the past decade it has abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms and historic civil liberties. We need to restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power, in keeping with Britain?s tradition of freedom and fairness.”

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