ECJ: EU-TERRORISM LIST DECLARED INVALID
NO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION PERMISSABLE FOR VIOLATIONS OF FOREIGN TRADE LAW BEFORE JUNE 2007
The so-called
EU-Terrorism List compiled between 2002 and 2007 is invalid, according to a
leading decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 29. June 2010.
Domestic prosecutions pursuant to the Foreign Trade Act (AWG) for possible
contravention of EU law are hereby inadmissible. In an unprecedented
development, Terrorism List proceedings before the ECJ were based on a
preliminary question submitted by a domestic criminal court. Previously, persons
and organizations affected by terrorist listing have filed complaints directly
to the ECJ. ECCHR submitted an expert legal opinion during the case.
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LAWYERS FOR KUNDUZ VICTIMS DEMAND COMPENSATION AND RESUMPTION OF INVESTIGATION PROCEEDINGS
ECCHR-EXPERT OPINION ON CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE COLONEL KLEIN CASE
Lawyers
representing the victims and their relatives of the 4 September 2009 air attack
near Kunduz (Afghanistan) - Karim Popal, Bernhard Docke, Dr. Reiner Geulen, Dr.
Remo Klinger and Wolfgang Kaleck, General Secretary of the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) - announced their next concrete legal
steps at a press conference on 10 June 2010. Following the decision by the
Office of the Federal Prosecutor on 19 April 2010 to discontinue criminal
proceedings against Colonel Klein, attorney Wolfgang Kaleck called on the State
Prosecutor in Dresden to resume proceedings.
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KUNDUZ DONATION ACCOUNT
ECCHR is participating in compensation proceedings for the victims of the air attack on Kunduz. In order to prepare charges, and potentially to put them into effect, numerous costs must be settled. At present, these are not being financed. Please help us by reading about the action and donating money to Kunduz donation account and would like to ask for your financial support. (Please be assured that your donations will not be used for attorney fees).ECCHR PETITIONS THE UN IN SUPPORT OF SPANISH JUDGE BALTASAR GARZÓN
PROTECTING FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY
ECCHR, together with
nine other international legal and human rights organizations, has filed
a
complaint with the UN about the treatment of Spanish Judge Baltasar
Garzón, urging them to intervene to ensure that the fundamental
principles of judicial independence and impartiality are upheld. The Spanish judicial system recently provoked
outrage - both in Spain and internationally - by approving criminal
charges brought
against Judge Garzón by right-wing groups opposed to the investigation
of state-sponsored
enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during the Spanish
civil war and under the Franco regime.
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ECCHR JOINS LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST EU-USA SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
THIRD-PARTY SUBMISSION TO THE BELGIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
On 21 May 2010 the European Center for Constitutional
and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed third-party submissions in a Belgian
Constitutional Court challenge against the EU-USA Passenger Name Record (PNR)
Agreement and mass surveillance system. The Agreement - signed in July 2007
between the EU and the US Department of Homeland Security - ostensibly aims to
facilitate US access to European PNR data for the purposes of combating
terrorism and serious transnational crime.
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NEWSLETTER
GERMAN ENGINEERING – REGARDLESS OF THE CONSEQUENCES?
ECCHR REPORTS AN OFFENSE AGAINST THE PLANNING OFFICE LAHMEYER INTERNATIONAL
Sherri Scondary School for Girls, © Ali Askouri
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FORMER ARGENTINEAN PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT
JUSTICE AT LAST FOR THE VICTIMS OF CAMPO DE MAYO
After months of
hearings and hundreds of witness statements, Reynaldo Benito Bignone, who was
President Argentina during the final phase of the military dictatorship
(1982-1983), was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on 20. April 2010. Bignone
was charged with torture as a crime against humanity for offences carried out
in the torture centre Campo de Mayo. The federal court in San Martin, Argentina
has also sentenced five further high ranking officials from dictatorship to
imprisonment. The ECCHR has previously reported on the trials.
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