Citizens stripped of protection
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After the US Food and Drug Administration discovered unsanitary conditions at a plant producing flu vaccine for the US market, the agency refused to order a cleanup, nor did it inspect the plant to ensure that a cleanup was actually carried out.
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Police have reinstated checkpoints  around the U.S. Capitol, drawing a protest from Washington's  representative to Congress, who called them inadequate  protection against attacks.
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In its fight against terrorism, the United States has eroded rights worldwide, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 7 September  Citizens' Radio will resume broadcasting in defiance of the law, chief organizer Tsang Kin-shing vowed yesterday, just a week after police took most of its equipment in a raid.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's government is   leaving human rights workers vulnerable to attacks by armed   groups by discrediting their work and failing to arrest those   responsible for assaults on them, Amnesty International said in   a report released on Thursday.
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Aside from being &quot;shocked,&quot; members of the ruling party were at a loss for words following the Constitutional Court ruling that the party&#39;s capital relocation plan was &quot;unconstitutional.
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A sleaze watchdog is to be scaled back in a shake-up of the way local councillors' conduct is regulated.
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A federal judge has ruled that a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act is an unconstitutional breach of the first and fourth amendments... US District Judge Victor Marrero, saying &quot;democracy abhors undue secrecy
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KIEV, November 3 (Itar-Tass) - Water cannons and armoured personnel carriers were removed from the territory of the Ukrainian central election commission on Wednesday.
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A federal judge ruled yesterday that a portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time one of the anti-terrorism law&#39;s police surveillance provisions has been struck down.
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A key part of the Patriot Act, a  central plank of the Bush Administration's war on terror, was  ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on Wednesday, in the  latest blow to U.S. security policies.
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OTTAWA --Canada's top court struck down the country's most contentious anti terrorism provisions yesterday, declaring it unconstitutional to detain foreign terror suspects indefinitely while the courts review their deportation orders.
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The precious balance between individual freedoms and national security has never been defined in absolutes. In times of war, when our security is threatened, people are asked to make concessions with their freedoms.
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"We cannot have a reincarnation of the old 'sus' laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties."  British police could get powers to stop and question anyone in the UK under proposed tough new anti-terror laws. via Boston Today
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It rules that US can't hold legal residents without charging them with a crime.
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Proposals to allow police to stop and question anyone in the UK under new anti-terror laws have been criticised.
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Security boom ends amid complaints about civilian killings and immunity.