position:home secretary

UK signs deal with Jordan to expel Abu Qatada
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/04/201342504718946147.html

Britain has signed a new legal treaty with Jordan in the hope of being able to deport a cleric accused of being Osama bin Laden’s “right-hand man in Europe” later this year, the interior minister has said.

The British government has for years been unable to deport Abu Qatada back to his native Jordan, where he is wanted on
terrorism charges, because judges have said evidence obtained through torture could be used against him.

“I have signed a comprehensive mutual legal assistance agreement with Jordan,” Home Secretary Theresa May told parliament on Wednesday, a day after a court rejected the government’s latest appeal of a judicial decision to block Abu Qatada’s extradition to Jordan. 

“The agreement also includes a number of fair trial guarantees ... I believe these guarantees will provide the courts with the assurance that Qatada will not face evidence that might have been obtained by torture.”

The new treaty is expected to be ratified by the Jordanian and British parliaments by the end of June, but May said it could still take several months to secure Abu Qatada’s deportation.

The case has been embarrassing for the Conservative-led government, which wants to appear tough on security and immigration, and in particular for  May, who has been tipped as a future party leader.

Exclusive: Secret war on enemy within - British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-secret-war-on-enemy-within--british-terror-suspects-quietly

The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.

Le FBI complètement tricard en Islande. Que c’est réjouissant.

FBI Banned from Iceland | Rixstep Industry Watch

Bravo l’Islande, après avoir dit merde aux banques, c’est au tour du FBI qui débarque comme en pays conquis pour enquêter sur les activités Wikileaks sans en avoir informé les autorités préalablement... Et qui se fait salement expulser !

C’est réjouissant.

http://rixstep.com/1/20130131,00.shtml

FBI Banned from Iceland. Attempted to infiltrate country in hunt for WikiLeaks.

REYKJAVÍK (Rixstep) — FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities, according to Islandsbloggen.

Mahdi Hashi : Family stunned as man stripped of his UK passport appears in New York court | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252304/Mahdi-Hashi-Family-stunned-man-stripped-UK-passport-appears-New-York-co

A British man who was controversially stripped of his citizenship this year by the Home Secretary has been captured by American secret agents and brought before a court in New York on terrorism charges.

The sudden and unexplained appearance of Londoner Mahdi Hashi in an American court five months after he went missing in Africa has prompted claims that he is the victim of international kidnap or ‘rendition’.

The former care worker, 23, lost contact with his family while staying in Somalia this year. When they began looking for him, they were told by Foreign Office officials that they could not provide assistance because the Home Secretary had issued an order depriving him of his British citizenship

Un Britannique de 23 ans d’origine somalienne disparu et privé dans la foulée de sa nationalité réapparaît 5 mois plus tard devant un tribunal à New York pour répondre d’une accusation de terrorisme.

Mais pour le Foreign Office, on ne sait pas si on va lui fournir l’assistance du gouvernement britannique, et de toutes façons il n’y a pas de raison de s’inquiéter outre mesure :

The Foreign Office said it was not possible to say whether Mr Hashi would be given assistance from the Government, but added: ‘The US system meets the international requirements on human rights obligations.’

Bangladesh factory fire report blames “sabotage” - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/20/bang-d20.html
By Oliver Campbell
20 December 2012

According to officials quoted in the media, a Bangladesh government inquiry into the Tazreen garment factory fire last month has identified “sabotage,” combined with negligence by the factory owner, as the causes of the tragedy, which claimed 112 lives and injured another 150 workers. The report was handed to the home secretary on Monday, but has not been publicly released.

The disaster, which occurred on the night of November 24, was the worst in the long history of factory fires in Bangladesh and provoked angry demonstrations by thousands of sweatshop factory workers. It again highlighted the role of the major international clothing corporations, which exploit Bangladesh’s cheap labour, and the government itself, which permits the factory operators to flout safety standards.

L’essor du journalisme hyperlocal
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/L-essor-du-journalisme-hyperlocal/story/12749709
Ce qui marche pour la presse « mainstream » n’a aucune raison de ne pas fonctionner pour des sites militants. Le succès (très relatif, certes) de Rebellyon est certainement le résultat de son centrage sur le local. À noter qu’Indymedia Londres avait tenté quelque chose de très intérssant à travers des hashtags locaux donnant des sous-sites hyperlocaux comme White Chapel : http://london.indymedia.org/in/whitechapel
Cette dimension locale, parce qu’elle est aussi celle des luttes de terrain et des rencontres permettant de les renforcer, est certainement la plus intéressante pour trouver des pistes pour repenser les médias alternatifs. Dans un but qui n’a pas grand chose à voir avec celui des médias dominants.

La « Tribune » lance un site communautaire genevois. Le phénomène prend de l’ampleur.
Hyperlocal. Jamais ce mot n’aura été autant commenté parmi les journalistes qu’aujourd’hui. Les médias qui couvrent l’actualité d’un quartier ou d’un village prolifèrent depuis peu à travers le monde anglo-saxon, notamment sur Internet. A tel point que certains y voient un moyen de relancer leur métier qui souffre. La Tribune de Genève n’entend pas rater le virage, elle qui lance Signé Genève aujourd’hui, premier site communautaire genevois (www.signegeneve.ch ), décliné également sur papier .

#presse #journalisme #hyperlocal

The Long Reach Of US Extradition
http://newmatilda.com/2012/10/19/long-reach-us-extradition

Should foreign governments give up their nationals to the US to ’face justice’ over minor crimes committed outside US borders? What about in civil matters, like copyright infringement? Kellie Tranter on America’s thirst for extradition

#droit #extradition

Occupy revient, un peu de résistance.

Et l’excellent Ian Cook, prof de géographie à Exeter nous envoie ce merveilleux message sur la liste de géo radicale. C’est très très très long, si on veut tout lire et tout regarder, mais de ce que j’en ai vu, ça vaut le détour (trois étoiles au Michelin pas moins).

Follow the Things | Security | Have I Got News For You (tent)
http://www.followthethings.com/haveigotnewsforyoutent.shtml

To coincide more or less with the 1 year anniversary of the beginning of Occupy LSX, we have just published on our site a debate about ’anti-capitalist’, consumption and protest that began with UK Conservative MP Louise Mensch arguing on a satirical TV panel show that people couldn’t be ’anti-capitalists’ because they were drinking Starbucks coffee, tweeting on their iPhones, and living in ’fancy tents’ outside St Paul’s cathedral in London.

We have located the YouTube clip and collated the online discussions that this provoked and, we think, have produced something that could work as a powerful teaching resource.

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Conservative MP Louise Mensch discovered that OccupyLSX protestors drink coffee and use mobile phones and brought this insightful view to BBC’s Have I Got News For You. Ian Hislop, Danny Baker, and Paul Merton were not in agreement with her (Source: Atwater 2011 link).

Four men with sharpest minds – or rather tongues – in England ganged up and tore to pieces a woman Conservative [a.k.a Tory] MP, Louise Mensch, who suggested in a popular satirical programme ’Have I Got News for You’ that ’occupy’ protesters at the City of London were not steadfast enough in their anti-capitalist action because they a: formed the longest queue in the world for Starbucks coffee; b: had fancy tents; c: used iPhones to tweet about the protest. ‘’You don’t need to return to a barter and a Stone Age to complain about the cuts and the financial crisis?’, said Ian Hislop, the feared editor of satirical magazine ’Private Eye’. ’If you buy coffee, have a tent and use iPhone your opinion is worthless?’ said comedian Paul Merton (Source: Anon 2011 np link).

#occupy #resistance #consommation

Revealed: government plans for #police #privatisation | UK news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/02/police-privatisation-security-firms-crime

Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
West Midlands and Surrey police offer £1.5bn contract under which private firms may investigate crime and detain suspects

Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/02/police-privatisation-security-firms-crime

Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.

West Midlands and Surrey have invited bids from G4S and other major security companies on behalf of all forces across England and Wales to take over the delivery of a wide range of services previously carried out by the police.

The contract is the largest on police privatisation so far, with a potential value of £1.5bn over seven years, rising to a possible £3.5bn depending on how many other forces get involved.

#police #privatisation #Angleterre

Revealed : government plans for police privatisation

West Midlands and Surrey police offer £1.5bn contract under which private firms may investigate crime and detain suspects

►http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/02/police-privatisation-security-firms-crime
#privatisation

A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Privatization of the Police Force - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6CkltzGAxY&feature=youtu.be

Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.

West Midlands and Surrey have invited bids from G4S and other major security companies on behalf of all forces across England and Wales to take over the delivery of a wide range of services previously carried out by the police.

The contract is the largest on police privatisation so far, with a potential value of £1.5bn over seven years, rising to a possible £3.5bn depending on how many other forces get involved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/02/police-privatisation-security-firms-crime?CMP=twt_gu
This scale dwarfs the recent £200m contract between Lincolnshire police and G4S, under which half the force’s civilian staff are to join the private security company, which will also build and run a police station for the first time.

Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones | UK news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance

The surveillance system has been procured by the Metropolitan police from Leeds-based company Datong plc, which counts the US Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East among its customers. Strictly classified under government protocol as “Listed X”, it can emit a signal over an area of up to an estimated 10 sq km, forcing hundreds of mobile phones per minute to release their unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes, which can be used to track a person’s movements in real time.

Coda to an open letter
http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/coda-to-open-letter.html

Three follow-up comments on the London riots, drawn in part from astute comments from friends and strangers.

#ukriots

Nouvelle une : retour sur les émeutes anglaises avec une « Lettre ouverte à ceux qui condamnent le pillage » signée Evan Calder Williams
https://www.lereveil.ch/no13-octobre-2011
« Tel que lorsque vous penchez vers la contrefactualité (comme beaucoup de ceux qui condamnent et qui se trouvent légèrement à gauche du centre le font) et dites, bon, mais, ce serait différent s’ils ne prenaient que de la nourriture, des couches, des médicaments, vous savez, les choses dont on a vraiment besoin pour s’en sortir, ce qui est en train de se dire est qu’ils ne devraient voler que des biens d’une qualité équivalente à leur niveau de vie. Les pauvres, qui n’ont pas un niveau de vie très élevé, devraient avoir des biens dont le standard n’est pas très élevé. Ils ne devraient pas prendre des cigarettes industrielles. Ils ne devraient pas prendre du champagne, ou du moins pas le bon et seulement pour les grandes occasions. Ils ne devraient pas prendre de grandes télévisions. Car ils ne méritent pas ces choses. Et ils devraient le savoir. »
#UKriots
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html

Barred Palestinian leader wins compensation - Europe - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/09/2011930164437872909.html

Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has been granted compensation by Britain’s high court for “wrongful detention”.

Justice Nicol, the presiding judge, ruled on Thursday that the Palestinian activist is “entitled to damages for wrongful detention” on June 28, when he was arrested outside his hotel in London.

Lancaster Unity: EDL ban cuts both ways
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2011/08/edl-ban-cuts-both-ways.html

The application from the Metropolitan Police to the Home Secretary to ban an English Defence League march through Tower Hamlets on September 3 is a double-edged sword.

....

But the Met application also seeks to ban all marches in five London boroughs over a 30-day period. This could include anti-fascist, trade union and other progressive marches. Whether the blanket will be thrown over the proposed Cable Street 75th anniversary events is not yet clear.

#EDL #UK

Government backs away from plan to close social media sites during riots - The Independent - #ukriots
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-backs-away-from-plan-to-close-social-media-sites-during-ri

Threats to close down Twitter and other social media during civil disturbances, raised in the heat of this month’s riots, have been abandoned. The subject was not even discussed during an hour-long meeting between senior ministers, the police, and representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry yesterday.

The Government has executed a rapid climbdown after being alerted to the pitfalls of a policy put forward “in the heat of the moment”. Whitehall sources privately admitted they were not now seeking any new powers to censor the internet.

Gadgets et tromperies de la prévention de la délinquance | Jet Lambda
►http://reflets.info/gadgets-tromperies-prevention-delinquance

Depuis 2007 le gouvernement multiplie les mesures paternalistes et autoritaires pour éradiquer la délinquance. Le texte le plus exemplaire est celui de mars 2007, la loi de prévention de la délinquance (LPD), que Sarkozy a mis près de 5 ans à mijoter, dès son entrée en fonction au ministère de l’Intérieur en mai 2002. Plus de quatre ans après le vote de ce texte, c’est le cafouillage total. Le mouvement Antidélation, un réseau de travailleurs sociaux qui s’est battu contre ce texte tout au long de sa gestation, a dénoncé fin juillet les faux semblants des mesures de la LPD. L’une de ces mesures phares, c’est le CDDF. Le « Conseil pour les droits et devoirs des familles », suggéré dans la LPD, mais obligatoire dans les communes de plus de 50.000 habitants depuis la LOPSSI-2 votée cette année. C’est dire que ce « machin » n’a jamais été populaire auprès des municipalités. Eric Ciotti, vice-roi des Alpes-Maritimes et petit roquet de la Sarkozye (sa récente sortie sur les "voisins vigilant

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/youth-crime-action-plan

Facebook et Blackberry tout contre les émeutiers | Olivier Tesquet (Owni)
►http://owni.fr/2011/08/17/facebook-blackberry-emeutes-angleterre-cameron-surveillance-internet

Déterminé à punir tous les casseurs du Royaume-Uni, le gouvernement britannique pourrait profiter de l’aubaine pour imposer des mesures particulièrement coercitives vis-à-vis des télécommunications.

Social media and legal experts have ridiculed a proposal by British Prime Minister David Cameron to restrict the use of services such as Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to prevent riots.

Read in The Sydney Morning Herald:
’London riot social media blocks ’totalitarian’
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/london-riot-social-media-blocks-totalitarian-20110812-1iq0o.html

Telford marches banned | Home Office
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/telford

The Home Secretary has decided that marches planned in Telford this weekend cannot go ahead.

his follows plans by the English Defence League (EDL) to march in the town on August 13.

#UK #EDL

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Socialism and/or barbarism)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html

Juvenile, destructive, unreasonable, and naive come to mind, if your previous history of accusations gives any indication.

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UIM_UBl1aqY/TkCPoGZ307I/AAAAAAAACAM/Uvxp43Ce24A/s400/Rioting-in-Brixton-002.jpg

I expect you would say the same about our position, albeit with a different set of adjectives. Juvenile, destructive, unreasonable, and naive come to mind, if your previous history of accusations gives any indication. Unfortunately, given the structure of the media and the flow of information, we cannot but hear what you say while you can very easily continue to ignore what we do. Until lots of angry people are burning your city, at which point you might, in a fit of weakness, concede to listen to those who have some opinions on the matter. Unlikely, though.

pour @supergeante #london

Police rally against cuts | UK news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/13/police-rally-against-cuts/print
#UK #mobilisation "nocomment