"When people are subjected to routine fingerprinting, when they are locked up, when they are restrained by body belts and leg shackles and thirteen feet of tape, or forcibly injected with sedatives to keep them quiet as they are bundled onto an aircraft, it seems reasonable to ask what have they done? The answer is that they have tried to come to western Europe, to seek asylum, or to live here with their families, or to work here. And the whole panoply of modern policing, with its associated rhetoric, is applied against them."
(Frances Webber, "Crimes of Arrival", Statewatch, 1995)
For a complete analysis from Statewatch, please see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/10euborders.htm
Please also see:
Greece: The "Thessaloniki 5" on hunger strike transferred to high security prison. This story updated 20 November to include medical report on
condition of the "Five", see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/06greece.htm
Spain: Immigrant minors to be interned and deported: Report, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/07spain.htm
Statewatch analysis: EU law on asylum procedures: An assault on human rights? (Updated 19.11.03), see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/04asylum.htm
UK: Home Secretary launches ID card scheme, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/05ukid.htm
EU: MEP tables formal complaint on transfer of personal data to USA, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/03pnrmep.htm
UK: full-text: UK laws (Acts of Parliament): U laws 1988 - ongoing, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/docbin/uklaws.htm
and more from Statewatch, in our Links section or; http://www.statewatch.org
(Frances Webber, "Crimes of Arrival", Statewatch, 1995)
For a complete analysis from Statewatch, please see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/10euborders.htm
Please also see:
Greece: The "Thessaloniki 5" on hunger strike transferred to high security prison. This story updated 20 November to include medical report on
condition of the "Five", see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/06greece.htm
Spain: Immigrant minors to be interned and deported: Report, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/07spain.htm
Statewatch analysis: EU law on asylum procedures: An assault on human rights? (Updated 19.11.03), see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/04asylum.htm
UK: Home Secretary launches ID card scheme, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/05ukid.htm
EU: MEP tables formal complaint on transfer of personal data to USA, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/nov/03pnrmep.htm
UK: full-text: UK laws (Acts of Parliament): U laws 1988 - ongoing, see:
http://www.statewatch.org/docbin/uklaws.htm
and more from Statewatch, in our Links section or; http://www.statewatch.org