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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:08:23 -0500 > From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FC: E.U. plans "suspected protester" database --Statewatch > > > > STATEWATCH, Press release, 3 December 2001 > > Special report on: > <http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/19sis.htm> > > EU plans to extend the Schengen Information System (SIS) to: > > i) create EU database to target "suspected" protestors and bar > them from entering a country where a protest is planned > > ii) create EU database of all "foreigners" to remove third country > nationals who have not left within the "prescribed time frame" > > The Council of the European Union (the 15 EU governments) are > discussing plans to create two new dedicated databases on the > Schengen Information System (SIS). The first database would > cover public order and protests and lead to: "Barring potentially > dangerous persons from participating in certain events [where the > person is] notoriously known by the police forces for having > committed recognised facts of public order disturbance" > > "Targeted" suspects would be tagged with an "alert" on the SIS > and barred from entry the country where the protest or event was > taking place. > > The second database would be a register of all third country > nationals in the EU who will be tagged with an "alert" if they > overstay their visa or residence permit - this follows a call by the > German government for the creation of a "centralised register". > > Both of these new databases are being put forward under the post- > 11 September "Anti-terrorism roadmap" (item 45 on the version of > 15.11.01, to "Improve input of alerts into the SIS"). > > Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch, commented: > > "Under the post 11 September EU anti-terrorism plans we have the > frightening prospect that details of suspected protestors and > dissenters will be held by the Schengen Information System on > one centralised, computerised EU-wide database and all > "foreigners" held on another and both are to be the subject of > "targeted" action and/or surveillance. Protestors and "foreigners" > are to be targeted as presenting primary "threats" to the internal > security of the EU." > > see: <http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/19sis.htm> > > for full background analysis and documentation on post 11 > September developments which affects civil liberties please see: > <http://www.statewatch.org/observatory2.htm> > > For further information: Statewatch office: (00 44) (0) 208 802 1882 > > Tony Bunyan will be taking part in Press Conference in Brussels > on Monday 3 December, 14.00 hours, at Centre de presse > R�sidence Palace, Rue de la Loi 155 1040 Bruxelles: "Les droits > d�mocratiques ne doivent pas devenir les dommages collat�raux > de la guerre contre le terrorisme": Jan FERMON, avocat au barreau > de Bruxelles, Antoine COMTE, avocat au barreau de Paris, Ties > PRAKKEN, avocat au barreau d'Amsterdam, professeur de droit > p�nal � l'universit� de Maastricht. Contact : Jan FERMON, 00 32 4 > 754 41896. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list > You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. > Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ > To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
