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News from Statewatch - 12th August 03

statewatcher | 12.08.2003 15:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | Technology | Liverpool | London

Statewatch News online, 12 August 2003
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news

1. Afghanistan: UNHCR imposing compulsory iris-scans on returning refugees over six years old
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/aug/04afghan.htm

2. German police raid border camp and arrest 250 activists
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/aug/05border.htm

3. UK: Citizenship ceremony - oath of allegiance to "Queen and Country": Report
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/29cele.htm

4. EU: Italian Presidency proposes that officers in plainclothes drive unmarked police cars across the EU to deport migrants
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/aug/01cattle.htm

5. The New UK-US Extradition Treaty - removes or restricts key protections for defendants - signed and adopted without any parliamentary scrutiny
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/25ukus.htm

6. EU: The other asylum statistics - Governments count the numbers coming in. But who counts the numbers that do not make it?
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/30irr.htm


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

7. UK: Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly and WMD website with transcripts of sessions

8. USA: the surveillance of travel under CAPPS-II. Very good summary of the current situation is on: What's wrong with CAPPS-II

9. USA: Anti-war activists on fly check-list

10. A major debate is opening up on the use of nanotechnology, "Future technologies, Today's choices" is very interesting report by Alexander Huw Arnail for the Greenpeace Environmental Trust on the implications of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics

11. Dutch MEP announces court case on PNR (Passenger Name Record) data

 http://www.statewatch.org

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