Italy is set to become the latest country in Europe to criminalize Holocaust denial after the cabinet of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi unanimously approved a draft bill ...
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Turkish foreign minister backs changing state slander penal code provision
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has called for change to the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code, which makes "insulting the Turkish identity" a crime. Gul, who last December...
Turkish prosecutors have charged five people in connection with the murder of Hrant Dink , the Turkish-Armenian journalist who was shot and killed last week. The five are accused of belonging to an armed gang, and...
Denmark wants EU constitution in place by 2009 parliamentary elections
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday called for the European constitution to be in place before the 2009 European parliamentary elections. Rasmussen acknowledged that some changes to the...
A European Parliament (EP) special committee adopted a report Tuesday alleging that some EU nations knew about CIA activity in Europe including the existence of secret flights and CIA-operated secret prisons [JURIST news...
UK draft money-laundering rules take on corruption, crime, terrorist financing
The British government Monday released proposed money-laundering regulations that would broaden controls on businesses, politicians, and foreign officials with a view to controlling corruption, fighting crime and making financing of terrorism more difficult. The new rules would require financial...
Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Sunday that leaders in Prague are not on board with ratifying the European constitution in its current form, and do not plan to take part...
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett admitted Friday in a written response to a parliamentary question that Britain was "aware of the existence of a secret US detention program" prior to a September speech by President...
Turkish-Armenian author accused of insulting national identity killed
Turkish-Armenian author Hrant Dink, journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos , was shot and killed Friday in Istanbul. Dink was one of several writers to have been charged recently with "insulting the Turkish identity" in...
Europe court allows PKK appeal against EU terror designation to proceed
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held Thursday that the militant Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) can appeal the decision of the Council of the European Union in 2002 to include...