Asylum
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EU has spent over €340 million on border AI technology that new law fails to regulate
The EU has spent €341 million on research into artificial intelligence technologies for asylum, immigration and border control purposes since 2007, yet the proposed AI Act currently being debated in EU institutions fails to provide meaningful safeguards against harmful uses of those technologies, says a report published today by Statewatch. Continue reading
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IRR News 30 April 2021: Playing the Refugee Convention
With the public consultation closing on 6 May, it is vital to respond and to call out the illegality, impracticality and immorality of the asylum proposals in the government’s ‘new plan for immigration’. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 May 2019 (12/19)
13 May 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/may/email-may-13-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Mytilene, Greece: Peaceful demonstration and the human right to freedom of assembly prevails 2. EU: Frontex gets ready to deploy to the Balkans 3. EU: Construction of the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) 4. EU criminal Continue reading
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The latest allegations against the Home Office are as serious as they are absurd By Wayne Myslik
The recent charge that the Home Office takes steps to ‘fix’ the figures is a shocking one. It shines light on a system dogged by maladministration and misplaced priorities. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 14 October 2013 (16/13): EU-USA Data Surveillance
14 October 2013 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org e-mail on EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE follow later : See Observatory: http://www.statewatch.org/eu-usa-data-surveillance.htm 1. EU: SEARCH & RESCUE AT SEA: WILL ALL EU MEMBER STATES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY? Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Terror Alerts and the NSA, Snowden's Asylum, Covering Weiner By Peter Hart
10 August 2013 — FAIR Blog The media are using the government’s warnings about a terror attack to boost NSA surveillance. Plus media get mad about Russia’s decision to grant whistleblower Edward Snowden temporary asylum. But what’s the U.S. record on extradition? Plus ABC covers the Anthony Weiner campaign–and can’t much figure out why they’re Continue reading
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Snowden’s Asylum: ‘It’s the law, stupid’ By Richard Falk
Russia’s grant of temporary refugee status to Snowden for one year was in full accord with the normal level of protection to be given to anyone accused of nonviolent political crimes in a foreign country, writes Richard Falk Continue reading
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Snowden's Asylum and Double Standards By Peter Hart
usat-snowdenNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum by Russia, which has generated coverage focusing on the U.S. outrage at Russia’s decision. “Defiant Russia Grants Snowden Year’s Asylum” is the headline at the New York Times (8/2/13), where readers were told of the “risk of a breach in relations with the United States” and… Continue reading
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ICH 25 July 2013: Senate Bill Authorizes Sanctions on Russia or any Other Country Offering Snowden Asylum
25 July 2013 — Information Clearing House Al-Qaeda Unleashed Against Syria and Iraq with Acceptance of the West By Pepe Escobar Washington has already destroyed the social fabric of Iraq. Now it’s helping to destroy Syria’s. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35654.htm Continue reading
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After Mubenga unlawful killing verdict: Could asylum seekers have a worse landlord than G4S?
• Unlawful killing verdict • Jimmy Mubenga died after ‘restraint’ by three G4S guards • G4S gave disputed evidence to Parliamentary committee about restraint techniques • Lately executive Stephen Small dismissed allegations about abuse of asylum seekers housed by G4S Continue reading
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Video: Glenn Greenwald: “Rogue” Actions of U.S. in Snowden Row Yield Latin American Offers of Asylum
We discuss the latest with Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the NSA surveillance story based on Snowden’s leaks last month. In his latest scoop, Greenwald has revealed the NSA has systematically tapped into Brazil’s telecommunication network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians for years. “The… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 20 June 2013
20 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Says It Is Working to Negotiate Asylum in Iceland for Snowden New York Times WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks activists in Iceland are discussing with government officials there the possibility of asylum for Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed hundreds of classified documents on N.S.A. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 11 June 2013
11 June 2013 — williambowles.info Could Bradley Manning help Edward Snowden win political asylum? Washington Post (blog) Right, A November photo shows Bradley E. Manning being escorted from a hearing at Fort Meade, Md. (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras/Guardian via Reuters; Mark Wilson/Getty Images). Edward Snowden, the now-famous leaker of top-secret NSA programs, … http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/10/could-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum/ Continue reading
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Video: Julian Assange Pt.3: On Meeting With Google, Responds to Anti-WikiLeaks Attacks From New Film to Finances
Assange addresses what he calls “attacks on all fronts against WikiLeaks,” from a monetary embargo involving some of the world’s largest financial firms to a new Hollywood documentary on WikiLeaks, “We Steal Secrets.” Assange also discusses a little-known meeting he held in June 2011 with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. We air an excerpt of audio… Continue reading
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