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Ben Hayes

TNI researcher working for the civil liberties watchdog Statewatch

Ben Hayes is a TNI researcher who has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in EU Justice and Home Affairs law, police cooperation, border controls, surveillance technologies and counter-terrorism policies.

Ben also works with the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR, Berlin), and has been retained as a consultant to a number of international human rights, social justice and development organisations. He has a PhD from Magee College (Derry/Londonderry) awarded by the University of Ulster in 2008.

European Union militarism and security policies, civil liberties

English

Recent content by Ben Hayes

NeoConOpticon (28 Sep 2009)

A new TNI report reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme.

Big business and security (28 Sep 2009)

In its haste to cash-in on the security boom, the EU has outsourced its research agenda to corporate self-interest.

Interview: Neoconopticon report (28 Sep 2009)

The lack of debate on EU's emerging policies on security is not just about "sleepwalking into a surveillance society”, it is also turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards.

Europe's big brothers (16 Dec 2008)
If the human right to privacy is to survive a generation, never mind another 60 years, then European societies must have a serious discussion about surveillance techniques, their limits and how to control them, write Thomas Hammarberg and Ben Hayes.

As they prepare to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, European governments must do more than just congratulate themselves on the continued appeal of fundamental freedoms.

Britain's financial Guantanamo (22 Apr 2008)
A little known UK government legal order forces individuals merely "suspected of terrorism" to have all their assets seized and forced to appeal for funds to even feed themselves.

This Thursday [24 April 2008], Mr Justice Collins of the High Court will deliver his judgment the case of 'G', 'K', 'A', 'M', and 'Q' v. H.M. Treasury. In the words of Rabinder Singh QC, "the facts of the case are reminiscent of an Austro-Hungarian novel". At issue are two 'Orders in Council' adopted under the 1946 United Nations Act.

White man’s burden: criminalising free speech (1 Mar 2008)
A proposed EU law on 'public provocation' to terrorism could criminalise widely held political views, but has barely raised a murmur, writes Ben Hayes.

In November 2007 the European Commission submitted a proposal to add three new criminal offences to the 2002 EU Framework Decision on terrorism (1). If agreed by governments, EU countries will be obliged to criminalise “provocation”, “recruitment” and “training” for terrorism.

Surveillance Society (1 Jan 2008)
“Terrorist lists” still above the law (1 Aug 2007)
Never Mind The Baluch (1 Jun 2007)
Control Freaks:"Homeland Security" and "Interoperability" (1 Jan 2007)
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