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Clinton urges Bush to boycott Beijing Olympics

Monday, April 7th, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged President George W. Bush on Monday to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies this summer unless China improves human rights. Clinton, in a statement, cited violent clashes in Tibet and the lack of pressure by China on Sudan to stop "the genocide in Darfur." "At this time, and in light of recent events, I believe President Bush should not plan on attending the ...

ID card rebels offer £1,000 for Brown’s fingerprints

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Jamie Doward, home affairs editor The Observer, Sunday April 6 2008 Two of Britain's leading civil liberties groups are to offer a £1,000 reward for the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary - a move that could leave both groups open to prosecution for incitement. The anti-ID cards group No2ID and the campaign organisation Privacy International will this week take out spoof 'Wanted' ...

More Sharp Words Traded Over Lapsed Wiretap Law

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — A new round of political sparring erupted Friday over the government’s wiretapping powers, as the Bush administration asserted that the lapsing of a surveillance law a week ago has already led to the loss of important intelligence information and made private phone carriers less willing to cooperate. Democrats immediately returned fire over the suggestion that they had compromised national security. The ...

Bill proposes violent criminals should submit DNA

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS -- A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that it could infringe on those people's rights. Among the critics is the NAACP. In Frederick County, NAACP chapter president Guy Djoken said he is concerned. He points to analyses of local data, including The Frederick ...

UK: Mass genetic surveillance

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard, recently told the press, “The number of unsolved crimes says we are not sampling enough of the right people.” According to Pugh, ...

SOCPA: The GLA’s campaign against Brian Haw

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Having failed to get rid of Brian Haw by force the Greater London Authority is trying again by legislation, their responses to the government consultation 'Managing Protest around Parliament' all seem to be aimed at getting rid of the peace camp. And the government agrees with them, SOCrAP isn't buried yet and they're already robbing its corpse. Time for a protest outside City Hall? "The Government received 512 responses during the 12 ...

Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Alan Travis | The Guardian The government's own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge to Labour's plan to introduce a law that would let police detain terror suspects without charge for 42 days. The Equality and Human Rights Commission says the key part of the counter-terrorism bill goes against human rights law and may breach the Race Relations Act. As the ...

Monk dies from Chinese food blockade

Friday, March 28th, 2008

A Buddhist monk died of starvation due to a 12-day blockade of food and water to major monasteries in Lhasa by Chinese forces, Tibetans in exile reported Wednesday. Lama Thokmey died Monday in the Ramoche monastery in Lhasa, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).          The Chinese military have not allowed food and water into the monastery since March 14 and fires teargas into it frequently, ...

Fingerprint Scanners Help Companies Track Workers

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) ― Some workers are doing it at Dunkin' Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of businesses are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure—information that is automatically reflected in payroll records. Manufacturers say these biometric devices improve efficiency and streamline payroll operations. ...

MoD: British soldiers breached Iraqi’s human rights

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

British soldiers breached the human rights of an Iraqi who died while in UK custody in Basra more than four years ago, the defence secretary, Des Browne, said today. Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, suffered 93 injuries and died screaming in custody, witness statements read to the high court said. Browne said the Ministry of Defence would also admit to violating the rights of eight other Iraqi men in September 2003 at ...

U.S., Canada violated rights of Gitmo detainee

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

OTTAWA – The U.S. is violating international norms by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers told Canada's high court Wednesday as they sought to force the country's intelligence service to provide details from their interviews with him.Omar Khadr's attorneys argued Canadian intelligence officers violated Canada's bill of rights by questioning him in 2003 and 2004 at the U.S. military base, where some 275 men are ...

In Iraq, Was I a Torturer? Asks Soldier

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

When 27-year-old Ben Allbright returned from Iraq, he was treated like a hero. But he is haunted by the "harsh interrogations" he oversaw. The prisons in Iraq stink. Ask any guard or interrogator and they'll tell you it's a smell they'll never forget: sweat, fear and rot. On the base where Ben Allbright served from May to September 2003, a small outfit named Tiger in western Iraq, water was especially scarce; ...

Children in care to get Biometric IDs

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Children in care should get school photos and passports, Ministers said yesterday, as they launched plans designed to give thousands of vulnerable children in care a happy and healthy childhood. Whether this will mean biometric ID cards be default for this vulnerable group remains to be seen. Biometric IDs for disabled children of those with special educational needs are often highly difficult to generate and use, for numerous complex reasons - ...

Don’t extend DNA database, says minister

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The DNA database should probably not be extended and should certainly never become universal, Home Office Minister Tony McNulty has said, writes Matthew George. He also told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, which is inquiring into whether Britain has a surveillance society, that such fears were the "meat of myths". He insisted the regulatory oversight of surveillance - ranging through the DNA database and CCTV cameras to automatic number ...

Firms’ biometrics records ‘can be hacked’

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is "insecure and in need of immediate attention," according to an IT systems company. Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world to verify whether individuals really are who they say. By 2013, Fujitsu Siemens predicts biometric identity technology will be so widespread in the private sector that the number of people included would rival that of the proposed ...
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