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  Amsterdam Police Officer Fired for Fraud & Leaks

  April 20, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  A senior Amsterdam police officer has been fired for alleged expenses fraud and leaking confidential information. An internal investigation apparently revealed that for years his family dined on police expenses, while from 2009 to 2015, he used publi...

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  • fraud
  • Amsterdam
  • police officer
  • confidential information
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  Activists Call Out Merkel for Enabling Anti-Semitism in Hungary

  April 20, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  Dozens of academics, writers and activists have written an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express their deep concern about her complicity with the attacks on Hungarian democracy. They point out the Orbán government's seizure of publi...

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  • Hungary
  • Germany
  • Civil Society
  • Orban
  • antisemitism
  • Merkel
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  Berlin Police Investigating Anti-Semitic Assault

  April 20, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  Police in Berlin are investigating an assault on two young men, which was caught on film and shows the attacker shouting anti-Semitic abuse. The men, both wearing Jewish skullcaps (kippahs), were assaulted on Monday in the Prenzlauer Berg area. The vid...

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  • discrimination
  • Germany
  • anti-semitic
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  Open Society Foundations Moving Budapest Office to Berlin

  April 20, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  Open Society Foundations (OSF) is leaving Budapest as a consequence of the longstanding smear campaign against itself and its founder, philanthropist George Soros. The organization’s declared goal is to support equal opportunities, the rights and liber...

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  • Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Berlin
  • Open Society Foundations
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  EC Wants to Start Negotiations on EU Membership for Albania and Macedonia

  April 19, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  The European Commission wants to endorse accession negotiations with Albania and Macedonia in light of the progress achieved by these two states. This is the conclusion of the reports published by the European Commission on the Western Balkans Partners...

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  • European Commission
  • Balkans
  • EU Enlargement
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  Whistleblower Protection Law May Become Reality in Europe

  April 19, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  Recent scandals like LuxLeaks and the Panama Papers have exposed the limited help granted for people seeking to expose corporate behaviour in the public interest. Therefore, the EU intends to give special treatment (including the right to legal aid, po...

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  • European Union
  • legal protection
  • whisteblower
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  Facebook Will Exclude 1.5 Billion Users From Protection Under EU Privacy Law

  April 19, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  A new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data will protect nearly 1.9 billion Facebook users around the world - unless Facebook pushes through changes to shrink this number. Facebook members outside the US and Canada ar...

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  • privacy
  • Facebook
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  Mandatory Transparency Register May Become Reality in EU

  April 19, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  After a number of failed attempts to introduce mandatory transparency regulations for the EU institutions, the European Commission (EC), the European Parliament and the Council of the EU have started a fresh round of negotiations. The aim is to strengt...

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  • European Commission
  • EU
  • transparency
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  'One Year in Prison': Antigone Presents Its 14th Report on Prison Conditions in Italy

  April 18, 2018 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

  On 19 April, Liberties member Antigone will present its 14th report on prison conditions, titled "Un anno in carcere". The presentation will be held at 10:30 at CESV, Via Liberiana 17, Rome. The presentation will feature the head of the penitentiary a...

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  • Antigone
  • report
  • condition of detention in Italy
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  Strasbourg Rejects Free Expression Complaint Over Himmler Post

  April 18, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint from a German blogger who protested his conviction for publishing a picture of Nazi official Heinrich Himmler in full uniform (showing the swastika) on his blog in 2014. The court found that ...

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  • ECHR
  • freedom of expression
  • Germany
  • blogger
  • Nazi symbols