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The parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen By Liz Fekete 28 May 2009, 5:00pm Below we reproduce the introduction to the latest edition of the European Race Bulletin. In the eighteen months since the European Race Bulletin carried out its last audit of the anti-terrorist laws, national governments, building on the blocks provided by the EU Common and Framework Decisions on Countering Terrorism and the European Union's list of proscribed organisations, have introduced a whole host of anti-terrorist laws, legal changes and other administrative procedures. A separate and more punitive criminal justice system, beyond the ordinary rule of law, has now been firmly established. The primary purpose of the summaries documented in this report was to provide a snapshot of the parallel structures that have emerged from emergency laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 31, 2009 (boomark / email).