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2Dec 2011

Eurocontrol

Update:Eurocontrol suggests asking governments to get it to release flight data 23 December 2011 – In response to Access Info’s ongoing investigation into illegal “war on terror” rendition flights, the Director General of the European air traffic management body Eurocontrol, has written to Access Info researcher Lydia Medland stressing its

12Oct 2011

Rendition Enquiries

Information Request Finds New CIA Flights Showing Previous Rendition Inquiries Failed New documents indicating the movements of CIA flights through Europe demonstrate the need for new inquiries to be made into EU states’ complicity in the CIA’s secret prisons programme, according to legal action charity Reprieve. Data focusing on Lithuania,

29Sep 2011

Notes to Editor Reprieve

Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open ‘torture site’ inquiry after discovering suspicious flight into Vilnius Notes to Editors: The role of European states in facilitating secret prison operations by the CIA was first revealed in 2005. Poland and Romania were named at this time as countries where the US had

29Sep 2011

Lithuania Torture Site Inquiry

Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open ‘torture site’ inquiry after discovering suspicious flight into Vilnius Vilnius, 29 September –  Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that Lithuanian authorities revive their failed inquiry into CIA ‘black sites’ after a Freedom of Information request – made in conjunction with Access Info Europe

26Jun 2011

Review anti terror laws

Council of Europe to guide member states on review of anti-terror laws Madrid, 8 July 2011 – In response to a campaign by human rights, media and journalists’ organisations from across Europe, the Council of Europe has agreed to provide guidance to member states so that they fulfill a promise

19Apr 2011

data retention not effective

Insufficient info undermines EU claims on value of data retention 18 EU states fail to provide full statistics on use of personal data in fighting crime 18 April 2011, Madrid – There are serious risks associated with the massive invasion of personal privacy required by the EU’s 2006 Data Retention

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