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• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a procedure for the negotiation and conclusion of bilateral agreements between Member States and third countries concerning sectoral matters and covering applicable law in contractual and non-contractual obligations

  20 April 2009, by Darroch Kim
  I refer to two Commission proposals for Regulations establishing a procedure for the negotiation and conclusion of bilateral agreements between Member States and third countries. The first Regulation concerns jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments and decisions in matrimonial matters, parental responsibility and maintenance obligations, and applicable law in matters relating to maintenance obligations. The second Regulation concerns applicable law in contractual and non-contractual obligations on bilateral agreements above.

• Binyam Mohammed has returned to the UK, while British involvement in torture remains unclear

  23 March 2009, by News Agencies
  Ex-Guantánamo inmate Binyam Mohammed has been released and flown back to the UK. Despite having been on hunger strike, his medical condition is stable. After seven years in detention he has now reunited with his sister but so far not talked about what has happened to him. Being a UK resident, Mr. Mohammed does not have British citizenship and it is not guaranteed that he will be able to stay permanently.

• Europe: Germany, Britain, Netherlands Agree to Enhance Anti-Terror Cooperation

  16 March 2009, by Deutsche Welle
  The governments of Germany, Britain, and the Netherlands have pledged to increase cooperation on countering Islamic extremism.

• Detained Lives- the real cost of indefinite immigration detention

  11 March 2009, by London Detainee Support Group
  Detained Lives reveals the ineffectiveness and the human impact of the UK’s hidden practice of indefinite immigration detention without time limits. It presents the perspectives of people detained for more than a year on all aspects of detention. The research explores whether indefinite detention achieves its stated aims of deporting people, through analysis of London Detainee Support Group’s case files.

• Enhanced scrutiny of EU legislation with a United Kingdom opt-in

  9 March 2009, by House of Lords
  The House of Lords EU Scruinty Committee report released in February 2009 (HL Paper 25) addresses the issues arising in the JHA field regarding its scrutiny authority. In anticipation of the Lisbon Treaty coming into force, the British House of Lords sought to boost the effectiveness of its scrutiny to influence government proposals in the broad area of freedom, security and justice. Its Report outlines how its authority has changed as a result. In particular, it concludes with a section on how the Government will proceed in future.

• Learning Together to be Safe

  25 February 2009, by Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
  Universities and colleges in the UK have been given guidelines for web monitoring of students’ access to extremist websites.

• Statement to the House of Commons on Binyam Mohamed

  6 February 2009, by Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, made a statement in the House of Commons on the case of Mr Binyam Mohamed.

• London Musicians must give police swathes of Personal Information to perform live

  25 January 2009, by Watson Steve
  Musicians and performers in London will soon be required by law to complete and hand over to police an eight page form detailing all their personal information and the ethnic background of their audience if they want to perform. Eight page form will detail names, aliases, private addresses, phone numbers of all musicians and ethnic background of the likely audience.

• Banned extremists will be named and shamed

  17 December 2008, by The Telegraph
  Extremists banned from entering the UK will be «named and shamed» under plans to be announced by the Government this week: In the last three years a total of 230 people have been barred from entering the country because of their extreme views but they are not currently named publicly. The bans on high profile figures, including radical Isalmist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrkhan, only became known after the individuals themselves spoke out against the decisions.

• Muslim teen ’brainwashing’ by extremists targeted

  17 December 2008, by South Wales Echo
  Muslim teenagers in danger of being «brainwashed» by extremists preaching hatred of western society are being targeted by an anti-racism group. It is just one of the new initiatives from Race Equality First designed to promote tolerance across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Director Mohammed Tufail said: «There are young people in the UK who are trying to brainwash other young people into hatred.»

• Islamic radicals make mockery of hate laws

  17 December 2008, by Evening Standard
  Just days after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced tough new measures to name and shame foreign-based extremists and prevent them coming from abroad to stir up hatred in the UK, firebrand preacher Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad cocked a snook at her new initiative, the Evening Standard can reveal. More than 200 Muslims at a packed public meeting in Tower Hamlets were told by organiser Anjem Choudary: «We have a special surprise, a special treat for you. Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad will be joining us on a live feed from Lebanon.»

• Analysis: Terror Threat Remains

  16 December 2008, by The Telegraph
  Despite the fact that Islamist extremists have only mounted one «successful» attack in Britain - the 7/7 bombings in which 56 people died - the threat of terrors attacks in the UK has not gone away: The official threat level is classed as being «Severe» - this is one down from the highest level, «Critical», which means an attack is imminent. Over the last few months, we in Britain have become a little obsessed with the economy, falling house prices and the credit crunch, but it should not be forgotten that a significant number of UK citizens have been planning to carry out attacks with the aim of causing mass casualties.

• CASE OF S. AND MARPER v. THE UNITED KINGDOM

  5 December 2008, by Court of Justice of the European Communities
  The European Court of Human Rights has today delivered at a public hearing its Grand Chamber judgment1 in the case of S. and Marper v. the United Kingdom (application nos. 30562/04 and 30566/04). The Court held unanimously that ...

• ‘War on terror’ moves into cyberspace

  3 November 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  Britain’s security agencies are fighting a covert war in cyberspace against extremist internet sites as part of a new anti-terrorist strategy, senior Whitehall officials revealed this week. The scheme is part of measures being introduced at a time when the threat level is described as being «at the severe end of severe», with, officials say, extremist groups determinedly attempting new attacks. As well running its own sites, the Government gives material support to groups that monitor and combat jihadist material on the web in an attempt to prevent indoctrination of young Muslims.

• UK suspect ’key al-Qaeda member’

  3 November 2008, by BBC
  A British Muslim man was an important member of al-Qaeda with a terrorist contacts book that had sections written in invisible ink, a court has heard. Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, of Manchester, denies directing terrorism and being a member of al-Qaeda. The prosecution at Manchester Crown Court alleged he was assisted by Habib Ahmed, 28, a city taxi driver.

• Two doctors face car-bomb terror trial in London

  31 October 2008, by Associated Press
  Two doctors charged with trying to bomb a Glasgow airport and London’s West End will be portrayed by prosecutors as terrorists in thrall to a fundamental form of Islam, a jury in London heard Wednesday. Justice Colin Mackay also instructed jurors to set aside their prejudices and prepare for «an interesting case.» Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28, have been in jail awaiting trial since the abortive June 2007 attacks.

• U.K. Tries to Thwart Al-Qaeda Recruitment in Schools

  30 October 2008, by Bloomberg
  The U.K. government said schools in England must do more to prevent violent extremists and terrorist groups including al-Qaeda from recruiting students, and issued guidelines on how to combat the threat.

• Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists

  29 October 2008, by Times Online
  A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.

• La loi « des jungles » – La situation des exilés sur le littoral de la manche et de la mer du Nord

  17 septembre 2008, par Coordination française pour le droit d’asile (CFDA)
  En 2002, la fermeture du centre de Sangatte devait, selon le ministère de l’Intérieur de l’époque, mettre fin « à un symbole d’appel d’air de l’immigration clandestine dans le monde ». Pourtant, dans la plus grande indifférence politique, les migrants ont continué à affluer le long du littoral de la Manche et de la Mer du Nord.

• «Outsourcing abuse» The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers

  13 August 2008, by Birnberg Peirce & Partners, Medical Justice and National coalition
  Asylum applications are a 14-year low, yet the proportional use of detention has increased 7-fold. The government is driven by seemingly arbitrary targets on deportation and has just announced a near doubling of detention centre capacity. «Mass deportations» may follow if the government puts into effect its announcement made in August 2007 to deal with 450,000 unresolved asylum cases within 5 years or less.

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