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Chile passes anti-homophobia law
Chile’s Congress passed an anti-discrimination law Wednesday following the killing of a gay man whose attackers beat him and carved swastikas into his body.
The House of Deputies approved the law in a close 58-56 vote, seven years after it was first proposed. The Senate passed the law in November. Some passages remain to be finalized in a commission of senators and House lawmakers.
President Sebastian Pinera had urged lawmakers to accelerate approval of the law after 24-year-old Daniel Zamudio died March 27. Zamudio’s death came more than three weeks after he was attacked, and his case set off a national debate about hate crimes in Chile.
Source : Huffington Post
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Super Injunctions are being challenged
The following has been posted on Twitter:
“Footballer ************* had an extramarital affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas which lasted for 7 months. #superinjunction
8 May via web Favorite Retweet Reply “
Source :http://twitter.com/#!/InjunctionSuper
See also http://super-injunction.blogspot.com/2011/05/footballer-to-sue-twitter.html?spref=tw
House of Lords battle to stop future Gary McKinnons
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Policing and Crime amendment would allow judges to prevent extradition for crimes committed in the UK
the House of Lords will have the opportunity to prevent situations like
Gary McKinnon’s reoccurring. An amendment to the Policing and Crime
Bill would allow British judges to bar extradition if a significant
part of the crime happened in the UK.
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The amendment would bring into force provisions that have been on the statute book for over three years.
First
introduced in the Police and Justice Bill 2006, the provisions passed
the House of Lords but were resisted by the Government when the Bill
returned to the Commons. By introducing a ‘killing clause’ – whereby
the clauses would only come into force after a resolution by both
Houses – the Government made it clear that they never intended to
honour Parliament’s intentions in enacting this law.
Isabella Sankey, Director of Policy for Liberty, said:
“No
one should be parcelled off to Europe, the US or anywhere else in the
world without good reason. If a crime is thought to have been committed
in the UK then a British court should be allowed to refuse extradition.
This amendment would go some way to protecting people from
being hauled off to a foreign land without the bare minimum of British
justice being seen to be done.”
Gary McKinnon, who has
Asperger’s syndrome, has been charged with hacking into the US Pentagon
and NASA systems between 1999 and 2002, an offence which was committed
from his computer at home in London. Had the provisions from the Police
and Justice Act 2006 been in force it is likely that extradition to the
US would have been refused.
Liberty argues that where conduct
constituting a crime occurs in the UK then a British court should be
allowed to refuse extradition if it is in the interests of justice to
do so.
Are we respecting the right’s of people in the UK?
The Liberty Charge or Release campaign considers the new ruling to extend the period of detention as part of a anti-terror campaign and whether the rights of UK citizens are really still being observed in a the fight against terrorism
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