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STRASBOURG.- To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art hosts until 15 February 2009, a large-scale exhibition dedicated to Hans Jean Arp, who was born in Strasbourg in 1886, and became known on the international art scene as one of the major artists of the 20th century. An oeuvre which transcends labels : For Arp, art is Arp, said...
The European Court of Human Rights is in StrasbourgA Russian court has thrown out appeals from the organisers of Moscow Pride over a ban on gay rights marches earlier this year."The bans of all marches in Moscow will be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights," said Nicolas Alexeyev, Moscow Gay Pride organiser, after the court hearing this morning."We have already started to work on our...
Nadine Grenier, a student at ESAD Strasbourg, made this kinetic installation called “O’clock”. It is made with 500 clocksworks and every 12 hours you can read this sentence: “le temps passe, et chaque fois qu’il y a du temps passe, il y a quelque chose qui s’efface”. This is a quote from Jules Romains, a [...]
A European court has ruled that the police are breaching the human rights of innocent people by storing their DNA on a database. Legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch explains why judges in Strasbourg reached the decision. Home affairs editor Alan Travis looks at the options for the home secretary, Jacqui Smith. Economics editor Larry Elliott explains why the Bank of England cut the base...
NY Times: The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously on Thursday that Britain’s policy of gathering and storing the fingerprints and DNA of all criminal suspects — even those who turn out to be innocent — was a violation of the human right to privacy. The ruling, handed down in Strasbourg, France, is a severe blow to the law-enforcement policies of the Labor government, which has led...
The fingerprints and DNA samples of more than 857,000 innocent citizens who have been arrested or charged but never convicted of a criminal offence now face deletion from the national DNA database after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. In one of their most strongly worded judgments in recent years, the unanimous ruling from the 17 judges, including a British...
STRASBOURG, France, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Counter-terrorism efforts rob citizens of basic privacy rights, which undermines rather than improves security, a leading European human rights official said. In the war on terror, the notion of privacy has been altered, Swedish diplomat Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, said in a report. General surveillance raises...
THE FINGERPRINTS and DNA samples of more than 857,000 innocent citizens in the UK, who have been arrested or charged but never convicted of a criminal offence, now face deletion from the country’s national DNA database after a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
London/Strasbourg - A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg condemning Britain's policy of storing DNA samples from innocent people was described as disappointing by the government in London Thursday. The court said the DNA and...
The Government has lost a significant case in the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. The judges have ruled that holding the DNA of people not convicted of an offence on a criminal database is a breach of their rights. This is a landmark judgment that places the police and the Government in a quandary since there are nearly one million innocent people on the database. The case was...
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Britain violated the privacy of two people by storing their DNA profiles, Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday, a decision that calls into question rules governing the use of the country's DNA database.
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday that Britain had violated two people's privacy by storing their DNA profiles, even though they had not been convicted of a crime.
"O'Clock" by Nadine Grenier, a student at ESAD Strasbourg in France, is a kinetic installation made from 300 analog clocks set in sequence to display this sentence every 12 hours when their hands come into alignment: "le temps passe, et chaque fois qu'il y a du temps passe, il y a quelque chose qui s'efface." The quote is from Jules Romains, a French poet, which roughly translates in "Time...
