UK is sending 11,000 Mugabe refugees back / Observer, 6 July 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/immigration.immigrationpolicy?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
Jamie Doward
"Attempts by Gordon Brown to use a meeting of G8 leaders this week to campaign for tougher action against Zimbabwe are in danger of being undermined by claims that Britain is forcing as many as 11,000 Zimbabweans seeking refuge here to make a stark choice between destitution or returning home to possible torture or death. Letters obtained by The Observer show that the Home Office continues to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence."

Environment Agency uses European Arrest Warrant in waste crime investigation / Environment Agency, 30 October 2007
http://digbig.com/4twpt
"An Irishman believed to be involved a number of serious waste crimes has been brought back to the United Kingdom using an European Arrest Warrant to face prosecution – a first for the Environment Agency in its fight against fly-tipping."

Brown must act on US rendition flights, say MPs / Guardian, 21May 2007
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2084278,00.html
Richard Norton-Taylor
"Gordon Brown's government must introduce effective controls over extraordinary rendition - the practice whereby the US covertly transports detainees to places where they risk being tortured - an all-party group of MPs has urged."

UK/US Extradition Treaty ratified / Home Office, 26 April 2007
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"The United Kingdom and United States have ratified a bilateral extradition treaty to ensure more effective arrangements to bring offenders from either state to justice."

US deports ex-criminal to Sweden / The Local, 30 April 2007
http://www.thelocal.se/7153/20070430/
"A 25-year-old man who has lived his entire life in the United States has been dumped in Sweden by American authorities. Charlie Edgmon was born in Sweden and is a Swedish citizen, but moved to Seattle with his mother as a baby. He speaks only English, and leaves three children behind him in Seattle."

Anger at US 'rendition' of refugees who fled Somalia / Independent, 23 March 2007
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Steve Bloomfield
"At least 150 people arrested in Kenya after fleeing violence in Somalia have been secretly flown to Somalia and Ethiopia, where they are being held incommunicado in underground prisons, human rights groups say."

Country Reports on Human Rights in 2006 / USA Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor , 6 Mar 2007
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/

Afghanistan
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78868.htm

Democratic Republic of Congo
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78728.htm

Iraq
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78853.htm

Turkey
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78844.htm

[Canada] Immigration Security Measures report / The Peoples’ Commission, February 2007
http://www.peoplescommission.ath.cx/files/commpop_fullreport.pdf
"The 102-page final report brings attention to the use of security certificates and the detention of people without immigration status for reasons of “national security.” It holds that Canada’s immigration, security, and detention policies violate basic human rights. Under a security certificate, a non-citizen can be held in prison indefinitely without charge and deported after a trial in which the accused never sees the allegations. Arguing that the post 9/11 political climate has been “one of constantly manufactured crisis,” the report cites the “targeting of Arabs, Muslims and Iranians” as tied to a “larger framework of national security that tends to generalize the perception of these groups as ‘dangerous.’”

[USA] DHS agency to scour jails for illegal immigrants / GovExec.com, 6 February 2007
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36067&dcn=e_hsw
Jonathan Marino
"The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is preparing to bring hundreds of investigators on board to combat illegal immigration. ... Despite the increased targeting of illegal immigrants in the workplace and elsewhere, the president's budget allows for just 950 more beds to be set up via contracts with detention facilities. Immigration agency sources were critical of what they said would create burdensome jams of illegal aliens in jails. However, the agency has been processing illegal immigrants for deportation at a faster pace than ever before, now that it has done away with the catch-and-release policy of releasing apprehended illegal immigrants and expecting them to return for deportation hearings."

Court ruling could affect deportations / Expatica.com, 2 February 2007
AMSTERDAM –
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=36110 "The Netherlands wants clarification on a European Human Rights Court ruling in which the court forbade the deportation of a Somali man.
The European Count ruled in January that the Netherlands was not allowed to deport the asylum seeker in question because he belonged to an oppressed minority in Somalia."

[Germany] German Court Orders Arrest of 13 over CIA Kidnapping / Deutsche Welle, 31 January
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2332581,00.html?maca=en-bulletin-433-html
"A German court ordered the arrest of 13 people behind the alleged CIA-backed kidnapping of a German citizen, believed to be one of the most notorious US "renditions" of a terror suspect."

UK/Algeria: Fears for safety of two men deported from UK after arrests by Algerian security services / Amnesty, 26 Jan 2007
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"Amnesty International said it was 'deeply concerned' about the safety of two Algerian men - known as 'Q' and 'K' - deported from the UK to Algeria, after they were arrested by the Algerian security services. The two men are reportedly being held by the DRS (Département du renseignement et de la sécurité), Algeria's feared military police. Amnesty International has extensively documented the DRS's record of torture."

Greece: Investigation not extradition: Threatened return of human rights defender to Pakistan highlights failures in investigation of alleged abductions / Amnesty, January 2007
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"Amnesty International is concerned about the possible extradition to Pakistan of Javed Aslam, the President of the Pakistani Community in Athens. Javed Aslam was arrested in November 2006 on the basis of an Interpol arrest warrant originating in Pakistan, according to which he is charged with 'illegal migration and smuggling of human beings'. Amnesty International is also concerned that charges against Javed Aslam may constitute judicial harassment, given his involvement as a spokesperson for six other Pakistani nationals in Greece who alleged that they had been abducted by agents of the Greek intelligence services."

Dutch ticked off over asylum / Radio Netherlands, 12 Jan 2007
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/dut070112mc
Sebastiaan Gottlieb
"The Netherlands has been well and truly rapped over the knuckles by the European Court of Human Rights. The Strasbourg-based court has ruled that the Netherlands may not eject a Somali asylum seeker from the country, because that is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights as the man would be in danger in Somalia. The decision will have major consequences for asylum policy in the Netherlands."

Aussie ex-crim dumped on Sweden / The Local, 2 Jan 2007

http://www.thelocal.se/5961/20070102/
"One Sunday morning serial criminal Stefan Nystrom arrived back in the country of his birth following a deportation order from the Australian high court. Stefan Nystrom, 32, was born in Sweden in 1974 when his mother was here visiting family. After just 27 days in the country, however, Nystrom and his mother returned to Australia, where he has lived ever since. The decision to use Nystrom's Swedish citizenship as a means by which to eject him from Australia has proved controversial. [..] As he has not been deported to Sweden to serve a prison sentence, "the government and Justice Department have no role to play."

[USA] Texas prisons ace immigration test / Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan 2007

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4456202.html
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT
"State singled out for helping deport foreign inmates after their release
Texas has one of the best records for working with the federal government to deport prisoners who are illegal immigrants, the Justice Department's inspector general said."

[France] Row erupts over Chinese extradition treaty / Expatica, 4 Jan 2007

http://digbig.com/4qpej
"Rights groups raised a chorus of alarm over French plans to sign an extradition treaty with China, despite the Asian giant's dismal record on prisoners' rights and widespread use of the death penalty.
France is set to become the second European country, after Spain in 2005, to reach a bilateral extradition deal with Beijing, which is also in talks with Portugal and Australia."