@sammac1
Professor of Law, UK Politics and Economy at GBZ, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Any expertise really limited to first of those things. Interests are #HumanRights, #Inquests, #Coroners' Courts, Deaths at the Hands of the State & #TransitionalJustice
Damming indictment of Scottish prison system. Systemic failure and neglect resulted in deaths of Katie(21) and William(16). Need to stop imprisoning young people & invest in communities. And overhaul investigation & FAI system so grieving families are not forced to fight for the truth for years.
Grim reality of life inside Manchester prison. Death, self harm and dehumanising regimes.
After a tribunal ruled that two investigative journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, were unlawfully spied upon in order to find out their sources, the pair were at pains to stress that they consider what was uncovered to be just the tip of the iceberg www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Prison population in England and Wales set to exceed 100,000 by 2029
Screenshot summary of the arguments in the case. Full text in the link.
EU courts, border controls
New case: latest attempt to challenge Frontex, the EU border agency - this time for supplying information to Libyan authorities, allegedly in breach of human rights eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Racial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: asylum seekers tell of brutal conditions at Manston migrant centre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
The daughter of Kay Melhuish, a vulnerable woman who took her own life in prison after being left without clean underwear for 10 days and denied phone calls with loved ones, has called for urgent reform of England’s justice system
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
📣 Public event
I am delighted to invite you to our next Monday Lecture on "The EU's response to Brexit" by Prof Brigid Laffan and Dr Stefan Telle (Berlin and online, Monday 21 October, 17:00 CET)
Participation both in person and via Zoom, registration required (events.gbz@hu-berlin.de).
The Guardian view on the coroner’s role: if deaths can be prevented, they should be | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Young children are being traumatised while held at a Gatwick airport deportation centre known as the Family PDA, which should be closed down, the independent monitoring board has found
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Kausale Wirkungsanalyse mit innovativen Mobilitätsdaten zeigt: Das D-Ticket führte im ersten Jahr zu einer substanziellen CO2-Emissionsreduktion Anstieg des Modal Split um +2,1 Prozentpunkte (von etwa 10 auf 12%) km BESCHLUSS Verkehrsminister (23. Sept. 2024) Preisanstieg von 49 auf 58 Euro/Monat PROGNOSE Jährliche Emissionsreduktion im Pkw-Verkehr könnte fast halbiert werden (3,6 statt 6,7 Mio. t CO₂) -7,6% gefahrene Autokilometer Quelle: Eigene Darstellung Anteil der Zugfahrten an der Gesamtzahl aller Wege größer 30 km © MCC Berlin 202 4:34 CO2 -6,7 Mio. t Co, im Pkw-Verkehr (entspricht -4,7% der ges. Verkehrsemissionen)
Flat-rate train ticket reduced Germany’s transport emissions by 5% in first year – analysis
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/flat-ra...
#ECJ rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women #asylum .
#Afghanistan #Refugees #HumanRights www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...
Morgen zeigen wir in Berlin als deutsche Erstaufführung diesen Film zum britischen #Spycops-Skandal, der durch die Enttarnung von #MarkKennedy ins Rollen kam:
www.cilip.de/2024/08/26/t...
Anschließend Details zu seinem hiesigen Einsatz und der EU-weiten Kooperation von Polizeispitzeln.
If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
Celebrating 10 million users. I was number 7,091,955
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #7.091.955!
