Fw: EU databases on protestors and "foreigners"

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg@tin.it>]

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: statewatch-news@statewatch.pipal.net
> [mailto:statewatch-news@statewatch.pipal.net]
> Inviato: lunedì 3 dicembre 2001 10.34
> A: Statewatch mailing list
> Oggetto: EU databases on protestors and "foreigners"
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> 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
> Résidence Palace, Rue de la Loi 155 1040 Bruxelles: "Les droits
> démocratiques ne doivent pas devenir les dommages collatéraux
> 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
> pénal à l'université de Maastricht. Contact : Jan FERMON, 00 32 4
> 754 41896.
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