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[AUS] Facebook asked to close undercover cop page

Victoria Police has complained to Facebook, saying a page dedicated to exposing the state’s undercover police cars is putting officers and operations at risk. The page has more than 12,500 followers and has dozens of photos and comments revealing the number-plates of unmarked police cars. A News Limited report says Facebook has refused a police […]

The VOICE und Plataforma Berlin - Racist Police Brutality Hinders Democracy in Germany

The VOICE und Plataforma Berlin – Racist Police Brutality Hinders Democracy in Germany

The police once again showed it’s real face, as the defender of totalitarian regimes rather than what they are constantly claimed to be, namely the “protector of the people”. The VOICE BERLIN and Plataforma Berlin protests the violent treatment of its activists and the activists of the Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants […]

Überflieger im Einsatz

Überflieger im Einsatz

Sachsens Polizei setzt auf Überwachungsdrohnen Von Jennifer Stange und Peer Vorderwülbecke Mehrere Bundesländer verfügen mittlerweile über Polizeidrohnen. In Sachsen sollen sie ohne rechtliche Grundlage bei Demonstrationen und Fußballspielen eingesetzt worden sein. Das ruft Datenschützer auf den Plan. Sie kritisieren die umfassende Videoüberwachung. Clara Bünger: „Am 19. Februar war ich in der Nähe vom Hauptbahnhof in […]

Poland: Mass hunger strike at Immigration Detention Centres

73 people detained at Immigration Detentions Centres in Bialystok, Biala Podlaska, Przemysl and Leszowola decided on beginning a hunger strike together. It is not the first protest of detained refugees, but for the first time information about a strike reaches the public. In the past, strikers had been put in isolation and punished in various […]

NL: Call out and announcement of a day of action at detention and deportation centers

NL: Call out and announcement of a day of action at detention and deportation centers

The No Border Network, founded in the Netherlands in June, calls for a nationwide day of action on October 27th 2012, seven years after the fire at detention and deportation center Schiphol, that cost the lives of eleven people. Several groups in the country organize a demonstration or another action to be announced at a […]

Police Brutality in a detention center in Bulgaria

On the 16th of October, eight Syrian asylum-seekers were brutally beaten by the police in the detention center for foreigners in the city of Lyubimets, close to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The same day, one of the detainees attempted to talk to the guards in the prison in order to receive information about his request to […]

“Arabs hate black people”

“Arabs hate black people”

By Jannie Schipper (Photo: Dirk Jan Visser) African migrants in Morocco feel victimised by the locals, and Moroccans in their turn are sometimes scared of the newcomers. The lack of understanding between the two groups is deep, as RNW’s Jannie Schipper discovered on a visit to the forested area near the border with Spain. „They […]

Mehr Geld oder mehr Migranten?

Weißrusslands Präsident Lukaschenko droht der EU, „Horden“ von Migranten könnten deren Außengrenzen überrennen Weißrusslands Präsident droht den EU-Mitgliedstaaten, seine westliche Grenze zukünftig durchlässiger zu machen und Migranten ungeachtet ihrer Papiere durchreisen zu lassen. Damit will Alexander Lukaschenko die EU zwingen, Sanktionen gegen das Land zurückzunehmen. Diese waren vom Rat der Außenminister erst am Montag für […]

ALL 135 POWERS THE UK WANTS BRUSSELS TO RETURN

ALL 135 POWERS THE UK WANTS BRUSSELS TO RETURN

Brussels officials are threatening to hit Britain with millions of pounds in fines in retaliation for pulling out of pan-European justice and crime policies. The European Commission has warned of ‘direct financial consequences’ if the UK withdraws from controversial measures such as the European Arrest Warrant. The warning was met with dismay last night by […]

NL: Police should have more powers to hack into computers: minister

The police should be given greater powers to hack into private computers in their efforts to combat cyber crime, according to a concept briefing for parliament by justice minister Ivo Opstelten. In the briefing, obtained by website nu.nl, Opstelten writes that computer-based crime is increasing and that ‚the expertise, capacity and experience within the criminal […]

Refugee March Berlin: Redebeitrag von Boats for People zum EU-Migrationsregime

Refugee March Berlin: Redebeitrag von Boats for People zum EU-Migrationsregime

Spätestens mit Tausenden Toten auf dem Mittelmeer ist klar, wie die Europäische Union zur Abwehr unerwünschter Migration bis zum Äußersten geht: Ihre Grenzschutzagentur FRONTEX will Flüchtlinge schon weit außerhalb der EU-Mitgliedstaaten abfangen. Jetzt wird das Mittelmeer weiter militarisiert: Im Grenzüberwachungssystem EUROSUR gehen EU-Mitgliedstaaten mit Drohnen, Radaranlagen und Satelliten auf die Jagd nach auffälligen Booten. Als […]

Was kommt nach INDECT? Ein Plädoyer für eine fundiertere Überwachungskritik

Was kommt nach INDECT? Ein Plädoyer für eine fundiertere Überwachungskritik

Matthias Monroy Die kürzlich auf netzpolitik.org veröffentlichten Beiträge von Ben Hayes und Alexander Sander diskutieren, wie dem von der Europäischen Union angeheizten Überwachungswahn Einhalt geboten werden kann. Alexander Sander kritisiert, dass Kampagnen gegen das EU-Sicherheitsforschungsprojekt INDECT andere Vorhaben ungeschoren davonkommen lassen: Für durchaus problematischere Projekte stünden sogar weit mehr Gelder zur Verfügung. Er schlägt vor, […]

Angstmaschine gegen Demonstranten

Angstmaschine gegen Demonstranten

Gut gelaunt blickte Niedersachsens Innenminister Uwe Schünemann (CDU) am Montag in Hannover einem rollenden blauen Ungetüm entgegen: dem Wasserwerfer „WaWe 10 000“, neueste Errungenschaft für die Bereitschaftspolizei des Landes. Offensichtlich freute sich der Ressortchef, schien stolz zu sein, Journalisten die fast 1 Million Euro teure Maschine vorstellen zu können, mit der sich unbotmäßige Demonstranten effektiv […]

Tunisia calls for migrant crisis task force

Marzouki’s comments underlined the pressing desire of the newly established governments in countries like Libya and Tunisia for support from the European Union as well as worries in Europe about the potential spread of instability. The killing of U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya and the sacking of the U.S. Embassy in Tunis last month […]

AGAINST POLICE HARASSMENT OF MIGRANTS IN CALAIS

AGAINST POLICE HARASSMENT OF MIGRANTS IN CALAIS

TO SUPPORT THE INTERCULTURAL SPACE ZETKIN, CONDEMNED BY THE MUNICIPALITY TO SUPPORT THE ASSOCIATION LA BELLE ETOILE,THREATENED BY THE MUNICIPALITY MEET SATURDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2012 AT 10AM IN FRONT OF LE VESTIAIRE, RUE DE CROY, CALAIS To go together to protest in front of the town hall and the sous-préfecture After the evictions of Roma […]

“xenios zeus” pogrom continues in athens

This video was made by the police for the purpose of their propaganda. Unfortunately the police was not brave enough to show us also the sound! Easy to guess why… Yesterday, October 5, the police invaded again the centre of Athens during “Xenios Zeus” operation. 1.537 persons were temporarily arrested and transferred for further controls […]

Rise of drones in UK airspace prompts civil liberties warning

A European commission report predicts hundreds of civil uses for unmanned aircraft in the next decade Drones will be commonplace in the skies above the UK within a decade, according to a European commission document suggesting that hundreds of firms will develop new uses for them. But the claims have prompted concerns from civil liberties […]

Frontex Situational update: Migratory situation at the Greek-Turkish border

Frontex Situational update: Migratory situation at the Greek-Turkish border

The numbers of migrants crossing the Greek-Turkish land border dropped from over 2000 a week in the first week of August to little over 200 in the second week. This is the direct effect of increased surveillance and patrolling activities by the Greek authorities, which included the deployment of an additional 1800 officers along the […]

Mit "iCOP" auf Streife im Internet

Mit „iCOP“ auf Streife im Internet

Matthias Monroy Deutsche Polizeibehörden sind an Forschungsprojekten beteiligt, um beim Aufspüren unerwünschter Inhalte im Internet zu helfen. Auch ein Fraunhofer-Institut ist an Bord Das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Nordrhein-Westfalen testet eine Filtersoftware, die Bilder und Filme in Tauschbörsen auf kinderpornografische Inhalte untersucht. Die Anwendung wird im von der EU geförderten Projekt Identifying and Catching Originators in P2P […]

Senate panel criticizes anti-terror data-sharing centers

Senate panel criticizes anti-terror data-sharing centers

The scores of ‚fusion centers‘ across the country threaten civil liberties while doing little to counter terrorism, a two-year study by a Senate subcommittee finds. By Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett A federal domestic security effort to help state and local law enforcement catch terrorists by setting up more than 70 information-sharing centers around the […]