Tag: Frag den Staat
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The list gets longer: Head of the German Ministry of Education ignored warning about violation of fundamental rights
The transparency platform “Frag den Staat” published further emails from the Ministry of Education led by the liberal FDP. The ministry took offence at the criticism of “police violence”. Following an open letter on the eviction of a pro-Palestinian university…
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Was Hans-Jürgen Rose murdered by German police? Group files criminal charges against officers after 26 years
Like Oury Jalloh and Mario Bichtemann, Hans-Jürgen Rose died after being arrested by the police in Saxony-Anhalt. The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office should start new investigations following new evidence. After Hans-Jürgen Rose was released from the police station in the…
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Radical thoughts: “Ask the State” publishes court investigation files on the Last Generation
Publishing official documents from criminal proceedings is punishable by law in Germany. “I do it anyway,” says Arne Semsrott. In doing so, he knows the European Court of Human Rights is on his side. On Tuesday, the information platform “Ask…
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LeaveNoOneBehind project: An app for the right to asylum
The project “Claim Asylum EU” aims to help people seeking protection in the European Union. This is necessary because the border authorities at the EU’s external borders are breaking international law on a massive scale. In the 1951 Geneva Convention…
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Secret border surveillance: Italy drastically restricts freedom of information
Italian media no longer receive information about their country’s cooperation with the Libyan coast guard. Whether many millions of euros for equipment have been wasted there can now hardly be clarified. It also makes the EU border agency Frontex more…
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Frontex Files: The Military-Border Police Complex
Following Freedom of Information requests, the EU Border Agency has released over one hundred presentations, most of which feature companies promoting their military technologies for securing Europe’s external borders. Deployments to counter migration use drones, satellites, high-resolution cameras and radars,…
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Taser at the German Federal Police: Shooting from the back
In a year’s time, the German Ministry of the Interior could decide on the nationwide equipment of the Federal Police with electroshock weapons. Until then, the officers may in a pilot project shoot at children as well. At the beginning…