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Councils slammed for unsafe sites for Gypsy/Travellers
A new Scottish Government report highlights failings by Scottish councils to ensure basic standards are met at Gypsy/Traveller sites.
Arms firms in Scotland accused of profiting from refugee crisis
A new report by the Transnational Institute says Scottish linked arms giants are profiteering from EU policy on the refugee crisis.
UK businessman in Belarus penal colony without fair trial, say campaigners
A British businessman has been denied a fair trial and incarcerated for 20 months in “terrible” conditions in Belarus, according to human rights campaigners.
Police criticised for million pound spend on mobile phone cracking tools
Police Scotland have admitted that they have not fully considered the privacy or human rights implications of new mobile phone analysis tools that are to be used throughout Scotland.
Police Scotland defends contract with Jamaican force accused of 168 murders
Police Scotland has defended two controversial contracts it has to train foreign police including a partnership with Jamaica, whose police force was accused of 168 murders last year
Northern Irish company criticised for role in Egyptian juvenile courts
A company owned by the Northern Irish government has been sharply criticised by the international human rights group Reprieve for its role in setting up juvenile courts in Egypt.
Scots far right group linked to banned neo-Nazi organisation
An activist with a far right group operating in Scotland had links with a banned neo-Nazi terror organisation, it has been claimed.
Scotland’s census criticised for links to firm accused of torture
The organisers of Scotland’s next population census in 2021 have come under fire for hiring a firm whose US parent company is accused of helping torture prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
We planned to avoid freedom of information law, says council
A senior planning official has admitted circumventing freedom of information law, by receiving vital environmental data from fish farmers “face to face”.