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Compensation now finances police wiretapping centre: Leipzig-based company Ipoque causes years of delay
25 people are already employed at a German surveillance centre that has been unused for years. They are now being financed through compensation. It remains unclear when it will start…
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Freedom for Marjan Jamali: Iranian refugee in Italy acquitted of charges of migrant smuggling
Marjan Jamali was deprived of her liberty for 598 days and was even separated from her child for seven months. She experienced particular solidarity in a political mountain village in…
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Journalist Peter Scholl-Latour worked for German foreign secret service, archive files prove
The renowned journalist Peter Scholl-Latour, who died in 2014, was listed as a source by the German foreign secret service for decades and received commissions. The German Federal Secret Service…
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Distorted picture of anti-Semitism: Study accuses German ‘reporting centres’ of one-sidedness and lack of transparency
The RIAS organisation is considered the first port of call for documenting anti-Semitic incidents in Germany. This has been criticised from a Jewish-diasporic perspective A theatre piece that was celebrated…
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Schengen Information System: 41 million daily searches in Europe and a increase in manhunts for persons
Member states receive almost 1,100 hits from the Schengen Information System every day. The number of people searched has risen by more than 50 per cent in four years. France,…