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• Judges ‘need more extradition say’ Grantham Journal 21/02/12
• Al-Jazeera interview with Fair Trials International on Hamza Kashgari Al-Jazeera 13/02/12
• Interpol accused after journalist arrested over Muhammad tweet Guardian 10/02/12
• Unfair Extradition Laws The Telegraph 08/02/12
• Jago Russell on 95bFM New Zealand 95bFM 06/02/12
• Julian Assange’s New Talk Show - With Thanks to Russia Newsweek 30/01/12
• Interpol accused of helping dictators catch innocent dissidents fleeing abroad Daily Mail 24/01/12
• Legal threat to Interpol for helping oppressive regimes hunt dissidents MSNBC.COM 23/01/12
• Overuse of pre-trial detention keeps thousands in EU jails, report finds The Guardian 13/01/12
• Nur wer sein Recht kennt, kann es auch bekommen (in German) DerWesten 05/01/12
• Ronald Noble: ‘Terrorists plan on email. And we can’t track them’ The Independent 03/01/12
• Thalidomide Briton’s release hailed Mirror 03/01/12
• British Thalidomide victim jailed for cannabis smuggling in the Philippines is released Daily Mail 03/01/12
• Call to end continuing injustice in Indonesia The Guardian 09/12/11
• Extradition rules: MPs urge reform of US-UK accord BBC 06/12/11
• Britons increasingly targeted under European arrest scheme The Telegraph 01/12/11
• West Papuan refugee threatened by Interpol arrest New Internationalist 29/11/11
• Benny Wenda: There’s a silent genocide going on in West Papua Daily Telegraph 29/11/11
• New laws to stop EU cross-border injustice The Portugal News 29/11/11
• Interpol criticised over attempt to arrest Asian separatist leader. The Guardian 25/11/11
• Unfair pre-trial detention in the EU - a shocking picture Public Service Europe 10/11/11
• The innocent inmates in Europe’s overburdened prisons The Independent 10/11/11
• British woman thrown into cell for ‘crime’ former boyfriend allegedly committed 15 years ago Daily Mail 07/11/11
• Tracey Molamphy wrongly strip-searched and jailed under Arrest Warrant Sunday Telegraph 06/11/11
• Andrew Symeou criticises extradition laws The Telegraph 02/11/11
• Briton sees 7-year jail term for cheque fraud upheld Arabian Business 02/11/11
• European warrants need reform, says acquitted Symeou BBC News 01/11/11
• Briton faces trial for row with lawyer Yorkshire Post 01/11/11
• Extradition review could improve European Arrest Warrant system UK Human Rights Blog 24/10/11
• UK decides not to opt-in to EU rules on rights of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings thEUnit 05/10/11
• Fears for British Tamil held for four years in Sri Lanka The Guardian 15/09/11
• EU directive opt-out ‘could hit Britons arrested abroad’ The Guardian 08/09/11
• Jailed Kent football fan Garry Mann released BBC News 12/08/11
• Number of Brits sexually assaulted abroad rises The Daily Telegraph 04/08/11
• Britons arrested abroad ‘failed by Foreign Office’ The Independent 04/08/11
• Europe needs minimum standards on detention Public Service Europe 30/06/11
• European law’s blunt instrument The Guardian 22/06/11
• Andrew Symeou cleared over death on Zakynthos BBC News 17/06/11
• Briton cleared of drug smuggling charges in Peru The Telegraph 13/06/11
• EU access to representation proposal nears Law Society Gazette 09/06/11
• Saudi newspaper columnist could face death penalty Daily Mail 13/02/12
• Allen & Overy Annual Review article on the EAW 06/09/11
• Football fan Garry Mann reunited with family KentNews.co.uk 23/08/11
• Garry Mann is released Algarve Resident 19/08/11
• British firefighter extradited to Portugal released from prison The Daily Telegraph - Leah Hyslop 17/08/11
• Convicted fan Garry Mann released from prison The Independent 12/08/11
• European Arrest Warrant needs reform Law Society Gazette 14/07/11
• Assange faces enforced leisure to ponder folly of a law passed in haste The National Times 12/07/11
• Arrest warrant let ordeal happen North London Newspapers 22/06/11
• Tiny cells, violence and language barriers: the life of a European prisoner? UK Human Rights Blog 22/06/11
• The Today Programme discusses the European Arrest Warrant BBC Radio 4 22/06/11
• Calls for changes to the US extradition treaty The Independent 21/06/11
• Four years on, Briton cleared of Zakynthos murder ekathimerini.com 19/06/11
• EU waking up to pre-trial detention injustice Public Service Europe 17/06/11
• British student Andrew Symeou cleared of Zante nightclub manslaughter The Metro 17/06/11
• Man freed from Peruvian jail over drugs charges Oxford Mail 11/06/11
• Oxfordshire grandfather leaves Peruvian jail after two years BBC News 10/06/11
• MEPs criticise ‘disproportionate’ use of European arrest warrants The Guardian 09/06/11
• Global crime and terrorism need an international response Public Service Europe 31/05/11
• Garry Mann transferred to a UK prison Algarve resident 27/05/11
• European Arrest Warrant needs proportionality Public Service Europe 23/05/11
• Jailed fan Mann transferred to UK Yahoo News 20/05/11
• Jailed Birmingham City fan Garry Mann is sent back to UK Birmingham Mail.Net 20/05/11
• Jailed fan Mann transferred to UK Cambridge-news.co.uk 20/05/11
• Garry Mann returns to UK to finish prison sentence BBC News 20/05/11
• European Arrest Warrants are ‘misused’, says FTI Law Society Gazette 19/05/11
• Family of jailed Merseyside mum in Venezuela plea for her return Liverpool Echo 06/05/11
• British drug smuggler Laura Webb ‘refused jury trial’ BBC News 06/05/11
• Senior MEP calls for reform of EU arrest warrant The Parliament.com 04/05/11
• European Arrest Warrant: enough is enough Law Society Gazette 18/04/11
• THE WIKILEAKS CONUNDRUM — ONE SIZE CANNOT FIT ALL New Statesman 14/04/11
• POLISH COURTS USUALLY CHASE ACROSS BORDERS The Rzeczpospolita 14/04/11
• EU arrest warrant not for ‘bicycle thieves’ EU Observer 12/04/11
• LEGAL GROUP HELPING ANDREW SYMEOU WELCOMES CALLS FOR REFORM OF EU ARREST WARRANT Enfield Independent 12/04/11
• EU COMMISSION WARNS OF EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT MISUSE BBC News 11/04/11
• HOW TO FIX THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT SYSTEM The Guardian 11/04/11
• TRIVIAL CASES UNDERMINING EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANTS, WARNS BRUSSELS The Guardian 10/04/11
• GREEK COURT HEARS BRITON’S CASE Mail.com International 08/04/11
• REDING WANTS TO LIMIT USE OF EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT European Voice 07/04/11
• The amazing story of Benny Moafi: Unbreakable, Unshackled City Life Chiang Mai 04/04/11
• Retired trucker accused of people trafficking 11 years ago The Sentinel 23/03/11
• Lawyers’ strike leads to Briton trial postponement Associated Press 17/03/11
• Assange case highlights EU arrest warrant ‘abuses’ EU Observer - Brussels 16/03/11
• Andrew Symeou manslaughter trial delayed again after interpreter problems Enfield Independent 11/03/11
• BRITON JAILED IN GULF FOR BOUNCING CHEQUES MUST BE FREED, SAYS CHARITY The Evening Standard 10/03/11
• ASSANGE’S EXTRADITION IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG The Guardian 08/03/11
• GREEK TRAGEDY - IS THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT FIT FOR PURPOSE? The Times 04/03/11
• DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL IN THE EUROPEAN UNION The Magistrate 02/03/11
• EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT FACES CRITICISM Deutsche Welle 22/02/11
• Jailed football fan Garry Mann’s return to Britain confirmed by Fair Trials International Kent News 17/02/11
• Garry Mann to be returned to UK to finish sentence BBC News 17/02/11
• JAILED KENT BACKPACKER RETURNS TO UK BBC News Kent 09/02/11
• Jailed Backpacker from Dartford returns to UK Prison The Reporter 08/02/11
• Drugs smuggler’ wins UK transfer after seven years in rat-infested jail The Evening Standard 08/02/11
• Chef tells MPs of battle after false conviction for murder The Sentinel 02/02/11
• It’s a set-up, says woman accused of defaming Portuguese lawyer The Evening Standard 28/01/11
• SERENA WYLDE SEEKS NEW JUDGE The Metro 26/01/11
• Woman’s trial suspended in Portugal Independent.ie 25/01/11
• EXTRADITED FOOTBALL FAN WINS RIGHT TO SERVE SENTENCE IN UK PRISON The Telegraph 24/01/11
• BRITISH WOMAN MAY FACE TRIAL OVER ALLEGATION SHE DEFAMED LAWYER The Sunday Telegraph 23/01/11
• HOW MY DREAM HOLIDAY TURNED INTO A JAIL NIGHTMARE The Voice 20/01/11
• POLICE HIT WITH THOUSANDS OF ARREST WARRANTS FROM POLAND The Telegraph 23/12/10
• WANTED: CRIMINALS WHO DID NOT PAY FOR DESSERT Daily Mail 21/12/10
• COURTS SWAMPED BY TRIVIAL EUROPEAN DEMANDS The Sunday Telegraph 19/12/10
• MISUSE OF THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT The Guardian 16/12/10
• JULIAN ASSANGE ARREST WARRANT A ‘PERSECUTION’ NOT A ‘PROSECUTION’ The Telegraph 08/12/10
• A controversial way to arrest a controversial figure. ITV News blog 08/12/10
• WIKILEAKS FILES: US REBUFFED BROWN OVER MCKINNON OFFER BBC News 30/11/10
• QUEEN URGED TO RAISE PLIGHT OF JAILED BRITONS The Financial Times 25/11/10
• EXTRADITION PROCESS ABUSES SUSPECTS Inter Press Service 24/11/10
• CLEGG’S HELP FOR STUDENT FACING TRIAL IN GREECE FOR MANSLAUGHTER North London Newspapers 03/11/10
• UK CITIZENS ARRESTED ABROAD TO GET NEW RIGHTS BBC News 25/10/10
• HOLD THAT WARRANT The Economist 21/10/10
• BRITAIN’S TOUGH EXTRADITION LAWS FACE A SHAKE-UP The Economist 23/09/10
• THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT AND THE MODERN ANTI-DREYFUSARDS The Telegraph 14/09/10
• EXTRADITION LAW REVIEW TO CONSIDER US-UK TREATY BBC News 08/09/10
• EXTRADITION REVIEW TO CONSIDER IF TREATY ‘UNBALANCED’ The Independent 08/09/10
• EXTRADITION TREATIES TO BE REVIEWED The Guardian 08/09/10
• NEW POWERS TO BLOCK BRITONS FROM EXTRADITION THE TELEGRAPH 07/09/10
• SUSSEX BUSINESSMAN DETAINED IN VIETNAM The Brighton Argus 03/09/10
• POLICE CHIEF CRITICISES UK EXTRADITION LAW AHEAD OF HOME OFFICE REVIEW The Guardian 03/09/10
• MORE BRITONS BEING CAUGHT UP IN LEGAL NIGHTMARES ABROAD The Independent on Sunday 29/08/10
• BRITAIN LEFT TO COUNT COST OF EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT The Telegraph 28/08/10
• ARRESTED AND HELD IN BRITAIN ON DEMAND OF EU PROSECUTORS The Sunday Telegraph 22/08/10
• EXTRADITION NIGHTMARE: ‘WHEN WE FIRST SAW OUR SON IN JAIL IT BROKE OUR HEARTS’ The Sunday Telegraph 22/08/10
• SURGE IN BRITONS EXPORTED FOR TRIAL The Sunday Telegraph 22/08/10
• UK BACKPACKER IN KOTA JAIL GETS REPRIEVE The Times of India 10/08/10
• BACKPACKER JAILED IN INDIA TO BE RETURNED TO UK The Independent 08/08/10
• PARTNER FIGHTS FOR ‘HOOLIGAN’ GARRY MANN’S FREEDOM Kent News 07/08/10
• LAWYERS CALL FOR SAFEGUARDS IN EU INVESTIGATION SCHEME The Law Society Gazette 05/08/10
• ‘My husband’s a hero, not a football thug’: Wife’s anguish after British fireman is jailed The Sunday Mail 01/08/10
• MY SON IS IN AN EGYPTIAN JAIL FOR DRUG CRIMES HE DIDN’T COMMIT The Guardian 31/07/10
• NEW EU POLICE INVESTIGATION CO-OPERATION ALARMS CIVIL LIBERTIES WATCHDOGS EU Observer 27/07/10
• European police to get access to UK records The Independent 27/07/10
• UK opts-in to plan to share evidence between EU police BBC News 27/07/10
• Britons to be spied on by foreign police The Telegraph 26/07/10
• EU plans ‘give police spy powers’ The Mirror 26/07/10
• European police to spy on Britons: Now ministers hand over Big Brother powers to foreign officers The Daily Mail 26/07/10
• EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT STILL ‘DELIVERING INJUSTICE’ EU Observer 22/07/10
• BLIND FAITH IS NOT ENOUGH EU Observer 22/07/10
• EU PLAN TO LET FOREIGN POLICE SPY ON BRITONS The Daily Express 19/07/10
• ‘MY DREAM JOB LANDED ME IN JAIL’ The News of the World 19/07/10
• FEARS OVER NEW EU SNOOPING POWERS FOR POLICE The Telegraph 16/07/10
• EU TO SUBJECT BRITONS TO CHILLING NEW ‘BIG BROTHER’ SURVEILLANCE AND INVESTIGATION POWERS The Daily Mail 16/07/10
• EU CITIZENS WIN RIGHT TO INTERPRETATION The Global Herald 12/07/10
• POLICE FORCES UNDER PRESSURE OVER EUROPE EVIDENCE DEMANDS The Telegraph 12/07/10
• THE HELLISH INJUSTICE OF MAJOR BILL SHAW MBE, THE BRITON LOCKED UP WITH THE TALIBAN The Daily Mail 26/06/10
• STANDARDISING DEFENCE RIGHTS ACROSS EUROPE WILL BUILD TRUST The Guardian 25/06/10
• STAFFORDSHIRE CHEF MISTAKENLY ARRESTED FOR ITALY MURDER SPEAKS OF ORDEAL The Telegraph 20/06/10
• ITALY DROPS BID TO EXTRADITE ‘WRONG MAN’ EDMOND ARAPI The Telegraph 15/06/10
• ITALY DROPS STAFFORDSHIRE MAN’S MURDER EXTRADITION BID BBC News 15/06/10
• ITALY ABANDONS ‘WRONG MAN’ EXTRADITION CASE The Independent 15/06/10
• ITALY ABANDONS EXTRADITION BID AFTER ADMITTING IT HAD ‘GOT THE WRONG MAN’ The Guardian 15/06/10
• FATHER OF THREE WALKS FREE AFTER ITALIANS GET WRONG MAN The Daily Mail 15/06/10
• EDMOND ARAPI ITALY MURDER CONVICTION QUESTIONED BBC News 02/06/10
• MAN IN PLEA OVER ITALY MURDER CONVICTION ‘HORROR’ The Independent 02/06/10
• A WOEFUL TALE OF EU INJUSTICE THAT RISKS RUINING AN INNOCENT MAN The Telegraph 02/06/10
• CHEF PROTESTS AGAINST EXTRADITION FROM BRITAIN TO ITALY The Telegraph 02/06/10
• FRANCE DROPS ARREST WARRANT FOR ‘WANTED’ GRAN DEBORAH DARK Local Guardian 28/05/10
• FRANCE DROPS DEBORAH DARK ARREST WARRANT The Guardian 25/05/10
• ENGLAND FAN EXTRADITED FOR TWO YEARS’ JAIL IN PORTUGAL The Times 13/05/10
• FOOTBALL FAN EXTRADITED TO PORTUGAL The Independent 13/05/10
• ENGLAND FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN’S EXTRADITION DATE SET BBC News 12/05/10
• FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN EXTRADITED TO SERVE JAIL SENTENCE The Independent 12/05/10
• GARRY MANN EXTRADITED TO PORTUGAL The Guardian 12/05/10
• FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN TO BE EXTRADITED TOMORROW The Independent 11/05/10
• FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN ‘DEVASTATED’ TO LOSE EXTRADITION BATTLE The Independent 07/05/10
• GARRY MANN LOSES FINAL EXTRADITION CHALLENGE The Guardian 07/05/10
• FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN FAILS TO HALT EXTRADITION BBC News 07/05/10
• ENGLAND FOOTBALL FAN FAILS IN BID TO CHALLENGE EXTRADITION The Telegraph 07/05/10
• JAILED BACKPACKER PATRICK MALLUZZO ASKS TO COME HOME Kent Online 29/04/10
• GARRY MANN WINS INJUNCTION AGAINST EXTRADITION The Guardian 29/04/10
• FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN WINS EXTRADITION DELAY BBC News 29/04/10
• GARRY MANN WINS LEGAL DELAY IN EXTRADITION TO PORTUGUESE JAIL The Times 29/04/10
• ENGLAND FAN’S FINAL BID TO AVOID PORTUGAL EXTRADITION BBC News 28/04/10
• ROBERT VERKAIK: BUREAUCRATS ARE ABUSING POWERS DESIGNED TO TRAP TERRORISTS The Independent 28/04/10
• I’M VICTIM OF A WITCH HUNT, SAYS ENGLAND FAN GARRY MANN EXTRADITED OVER EURO 2004 The Independent 28/04/10
• FOOTBALL FAN LOSES EXTRADITION FIGHT OVER PORTUGAL RIOT The Guardian 27/04/10
• GARRY MANN LOSES FIGHT AGAINST EXTRADITION The Times 27/04/10
• ENGLAND FAN GARRY MANN LOSES LAST-DITCH EXTRADITION BATTLE The Independent 27/04/10
• ENGLAND FAN GARRY MANN LOSES EXTRADITION CASE The Telegraph 27/04/10
• ENGLAND FAN LOSES PORTUGAL EXTRADITION COURT FIGHT BBC News 27/04/10
• BRITISH CITIZENS FACE BEING SUBJECTED TO SECRET ‘BIG BROTHER’ SPYING MISSIONS The Daily Mail 21/04/10
• BRITONS ARRESTED ABROAD WILL LOSE THE RIGHT TO A TRANSLATOR The Telegraph 18/03/10
• PATRICK MALLUZZO DRUG-SMUGGLING APPEAL REJECTED BBC News 23/02/10
• BRITON CAUGHT UP IN DRUG STING IS HELD IN SPANISH JAIL FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS The Guardian 07/02/10
• DAVID BLUNKETT: EUROPEAN WARRANT IS FAIR, BUT IT IS OPEN TO ABUSE The Independent 02/02/10
• ENGLAND FOOTBALL FAN EXTRADITION DECISION DEFERRED BBC News 02/02/10
• ENGLAND FAN WINS EXTRADITION REPRIEVE The Independent 02/02/10
• ENGLAND FAN GARRY MANN LOSES PORTUGAL EXTRADITION FIGHT BBC News 19/01/10
• FAST-TRACK EXTRADITION - THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT IS BEING ROUTINELY MISUSED The Law Society Gazette 14/01/10
• PROTEST STAGED OVER BRITISH STUDENT IN GREEK JAIL BBC News 09/01/10
• GMTV report on Deborah Dark GMTV 29/07/09
• BBC News report - Deborah Dark BBC News 26/07/09