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• Five acquitted over Madrid train bombings

  12 August 2008, by News Agencies
  A Spanish court overturned the convictions of four people who had been found guilty in connection with the 2005 Madrid bombings. The court overturned a ruling from last year, which found three guilty of being members of an Islamist cell that carried out the attacks. All four of the men were among 21 people convicted in 2007, of being inspired by – but not directed by, Al Qaeda.

• Alleged al-Qaeda-linked Islamists arrested

  29 July 2008, by News Agencies
  Spanish police broke up a cell of suspected Islamic militants, and arrested four people accused of fundraising for terrorist activities. The men, all of Algerian origin, were arrested in the southern province of Huelva and the Basque region in the north. Authorities said that the cell had been under investigation since 2005, and was directly linked to Al Qaeda.

• Spain arrests two on militant recruitment suspicion

  30 June 2008, by News Agencies
  Police in Barcelona arrested two people on Tuesday on suspicion of recruiting Muslims to fight for militant groups, news agency EFE reported. The report said they were not connected to 11 other Islamist militants who a Spanish court charged on Thursday with offences related to suicide bomb plots in the Spanish city and Germany.

• Spanish judge indicts 11 on terror charges

  25 June 2008, by News Agencies
  A Spanish judge charged eleven men with plotting suicide attacks against the public transportation network in Barcelona. The indictment says the cell of ten Pakistanis and one Indian, had plans to carry out an attack between January 18-20 of this year. The indictment said that the men were «very close to achieving full technical capacity with explosives» to carry out the attack.

• Eight Algerians arrested on terrorism charges

  25 June 2008, by Expatica
  Eight Algerians were arrested on charges related to terrorism, and are believed to have ties to a cell spreading propaganda, recruiting volunteers, and engages in the lending of economic and logistical support for groups forming part of the ‘Islamic Maghreb’ - a North African branch of al-Qaeda.

• Spain, Saudi Arabia to cooperate in terror fight

  10 June 2008, by Trading Markets
  Spain’s King Juan Carlos and several Saudi leaders agreed that their respective governments would work together to combat terrorism. In addition, Spain will support a Saudi initiative to create an international center to fight terrorism - a plan that is currently in progress.

• Resolution CM/ResCMN(2008)1 on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by Spain

  21 April 2008, by Conseil de l’Europe
  The resolution adopted by the Committee of Ministers on the protection of minorities highlights positive developments such as strengthening the national legislative provisions for combating discrimination, launching initiatives aimed at improving access to social services and the labour market for vulnerable groups, steps taken toward involving Roma in the preparation and implementation of policies that possibly affect them. However, still there are issues of concern, for example problems in the implementation of legislation for combating discrimination. Roma still face discrimination in various areas of social life. The resolution includes also recommendations on minority protection in Spain.

• Spain court convicts 20 radicals of terrorism charges

  4 April 2008, by News Agencies
  A judge in Madrid’s National Court acquitted 20 Islamic terror suspects of the most serious charges in an alleged plot, but convicted them of lesser offences. The court found 18 of 20 suspects guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization, and convicted two others of collaborating in the alleged plot to blow up a court, revealed in late 2004.

• Judge says Al Qaeda suspects unfit for trial

  4 April 2008, by News Agencies
  Spain has dropped the extradition of two British residents formerly held as terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay. High Court judge Baltasar Garzon shelved the case of two inmates in after medical reports from British authorities declared them to be unfit to stand trial after suffering years of abuse and torture, according to their lawyers.

• Derechos Humanos en la frontera sur 2007

  1ro de abril de 2008, por APDHA
  Presentamos el informe anual sobre inmigración clandestina. El informe que anualmente hacemos la APDHA acerca de los «Derechos Humanos en la Frontera Sur», se ha convertido modestamente en un trabajo de referencia para muchos medios y analistas y para muchas organizaciones sociales interesadas en la cuestión migratoria. Este informe, editado en francés y español, se realiza mediante un equipo de trabajo que efectúa un seguimiento de las vulneraciones de derechos humanos que se producen en las fronteras, en especial en relación a las rutas migratorias que desde la Frontera Sur se dirigen hacia España

• Spagna et Italia nel tragico domino degli sbarchi

  13 février 2008, par Coslovi Lorenzo
  Rome et Madrid sont devenues les sentinelles d’une « forteresse Europe » assaillie par les immigrés. Le renforcement des contrôles en Méditerranée a donné des résultats importants, même s’il n’est pas parvenu à rendre les frontières imperméables. L’importance de la Libye et du Maroc dans ce nouveau dispositif de régulation.

• Migrants’ Experiences of Racism and Xenophobia in 12 EU Member States

  4 February 2008, by European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
  This pilot study on migrants’ experiences of discrimination is based on country studies conducted between 2002 and 2005 in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and UK. According to the study in all these countries migrants subjectively experience discriminatory practices to a significant extent.

• Zapatero downplays Al Qaeda threat

  12 November 2007, by Expatica
  Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on Friday downplayed the latest threat against Spain by the terrorist organisation Al Qaeda, saying the government was working hard to prevent attacks against Spanish interests.

• Treaty Between the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Kingdom of The Netherlands and the Portuguese Republic, establishing the European Gendarmerie Force

  22 October 2007, by Italian Republic, Kingdom of Spain, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Portuguese Republic, Republic of France
  The object of this Treaty is to establish a European Gendarmerie Force, which shall be operational, pre-organised, robust, and rapidly deployable, exclusively comprising elements of police forces with military status of the Parties, in order to perform all police tasks within the scope of crisis management operations.

• Countering intolerance and discrimination against Muslims purpose of OSCE meeting in Cordoba

  15 October 2007, by OSCE
  On 9 and 10 October 2007 in Cordoba, Spain the Spanish OSCE Chairmanship organized the OSCE Chairmanship Conference on Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims. At the conference the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said: «It is logical that we avoid the risk of a new racism appearing that will disrupt social relations and damage human rights and our very security.» According to the the OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut «OSCE sees combating intolerance and discrimination against Muslims ? as an integral part of our conflict prevention and crisis management activities.»

• Data retention – a critical side note by Advocate-General Kokott

  10. September 2007, von Kokot Juliane
  Case C-275/06 (Promusicae/Telefonica de Espana) deals with the question whether internet access providers (here: Telefonica) are under an obligation to reveal personal data on their users to a private party (Promusicae) in order to enable the latter to bring civil law charges against these users for the infringement of intellectual property rights (here: filesharing of audiovisual files). Under Spanish law internet access providers are merely obliged to reveal the requested data to state authorities for the purpose of criminal law. The Spanish court wanted to know whether this restriction is in conformity with EU law.

• Prüm Treaty will allow EU27 to exchange DNA data to fight crime

  19 June 2007, by European Parliament
  The application of the Prüm Treaty, signed on 27 May 2005 by seven EU countries, should facilitate the exchange of data from DNA and fingerprint databases to produce «a stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration», according to a report by Fausto CORREIA (PES, PT) and adopted by the European Parliament.

• Amélioration des échanges d’informations dans le cadre de la coopération transfrontière

  19 juin 2007, par Parlement européen
  Le Parlement a adopté un rapport portant sur le transfert automatisé de profils ADN, de fichiers d’empreintes digitales et d’immatriculations de véhicules dans le cadre de la discussion commune sur la coopération transfrontière en matière de lutte contre le terrorisme et la criminalité. L’avis du Parlement est en l’espèce consultatif, mais les députés souhaitent modifier la base juridique utilisée, afin que le Conseil ne puisse passer outre ses recommandations à la majorité qualifiée.

• Profiles on Counter-Terrorist Capacity

  13 June 2007, by Committee of Experts on Terrorism (Codexter)
  The CODEXTER profiles give an overview on member states’ provisions on counter-terrorism measures, including telephone tapping and related measures, legal rules and organisational and jurisdictional matters.

• Report of the Conference "Internal and External Challenges" Budapest, 24th-25th May 2007

  13 June 2007, by Toth Judit
  Proceedings were begun by a welcome from Dr Judit Tóth, the chair of the first session, on behalf of the Minority Studies Institute, the Hungarian section of the Challenge Consortium, which is made up of 23 international research institutes. The Consortium concentrates on the changing landscapes of European liberty and security issues, and this conference was to address some of the issues brought up by the enlargement of the EU and the interactions between its various members, and those countries on its borders.

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