緊急避妊薬の処方箋なし薬局販売（ＯＴＣ化）がようやく実現にこぎつけた。製品名は「ノルレボ」で、第一三共ヘルスケアが２月２日から販売。一定の要件を満たした全国の薬局やドラッグストアで処方箋なしで購入できる。年齢制限はなく […]

　ユネスコエコパーク（生物圏保存地域）に指定されている南アルプスを貫くリニア中央新幹線の長大トンネル（全長約25キロ）掘削により大井川流域の水が減った場合、ＪＲ東海が永久に補償することを約束する確認書の締結式が１月24日 […]

We are excited to introduce the newest addition to the APC member network: the Progressive Technology Project (PTP). Based in the United States, PTP is organising resistance to oppressive corporate…

　戦時中に朝鮮半島から連行され山口県の海底炭鉱で働かされていた労働者らが地下坑道の水没事故によって１８３人が生き埋めになったまま放置されてきた問題で、植民地支配の責任を否定する日本政府・厚生労働省の幹部は、これまで犠牲者 […]

　日本政府によるイスラエル製攻撃用ドローンの導入を止めようと、「ジェノサイドに抗する防衛大学校卒業生の会」呼びかけ人代表の平山貴盛さん（29歳）が１月26日、東京都新宿区の防衛省前でハンガーストライキを始めた。平山さんは […]

　急速に進む日本の軍事化に危機感を抱く市民らによる「戦争止めよう！沖縄・西日本ネットワーク」（沖西ネット、38団体）が１月26日、東京の参議院議員会館で防衛省との交渉に臨んだ。戦争準備は断じて容認できないとする市民らが当 […]

Staff

To contact individual staff members, replace [at] with @.

Alamara Khwaja Bettum (Executive Director)

Alamara has been with Statewatch since December 2025. She is a qualified immigration lawyer in the UK, specialising in asylum, family reunion, and human rights. Prior to Statewatch, Alamara worked with migrants and refugees for over ten years in both the humanitarian field in Iraqi Kurdistan and the legal sector in the UK. In addition to her legal expertise, she brings experience in policy development, advocacy, capacity building and anti-racism.

Email: alamara [at] statewatch.org

Chris Jones (Researcher)

Chris has been working for Statewatch since 2010 and in September 2020 was appointed as Executive Director. As of February 2026, he stepped back from the role to focus solely on research. He specialises in issues relating to policing, migration, privacy and data protection and security technologies.

Email: chris [at] statewatch.org

Romain Lanneau (Consultant Researcher)

Romain Lanneau has been working for Statewatch since 2022. He is a legal researcher, publishing on the topics of migration, asylum, and the use of new technologies for public policies. As an independent consultant, he worked for the European Network Against Racism, Fair Trials International and Data Rights. In addition to leading investigation and producing research, Romain has been assisting activists with strategic litigation on digital rights issues. He holds a LLM in International Migration and Refugee Law from the University of VU Amsterdam as well as a Master degree in Public International Law from the University of Lyon III.

Email: romain [at] statewatch.org

Frey Lindsay (Consultant Journalist)

Frey has been writing and coordinating our outsourcing borders bulletin on EU externalisation since 2025. Prior to Statewatch, Frey covered migration and borders for a decade. During his time as a journalist for the BBC World Service, he reported on the rise of anti-migration policies, Europe's border and surveillance technologies, Mediterranean search and rescue, and the exploitation of individuals by corporate and state powers worldwide. He has also written for openDemocracy, Thomson Reuters, and InfoMigrants. 

Email: frey [at] statewatch.org

Giacomo Zandonini (Consultant Journalist)

Giacomo is currently with us as part of the 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellowship, and is conducting research into the impact of digital surveillance on communities across Europe. He is an investigative reporter whose has exposed corporate interests and the expansion of state surveillance networks across Europe and West Africa. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Politico, Internazionale, The New Humanitarian, and more. He is the co-founder of the Fada Collective and received a special mention at the European Press Prize (2024).

Email: giacomo [at] statewatch.org

McKensie Marie (Head of Communications)

McKensie joined Statewatch in early 2024 to lead its communications efforts, shaping and implementing our communications strategy. She manages external outreach and oversees all aspects of our communication work. With experience as a communications specialist, designer, copywriter, and researcher, McKensie has worked with NGOs and charities across Europe and North America. 

 

Email: mckensie [at] statewatch.org

Rahmat Tavakkoli (Finance & Administration Worker)

Rahmat joined Statewatch in September 2021 to take care of our financial and administrative procedures, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and contribute to the smooth running of the office and the organization.

Email: admin [at] statewatch.org

 

Trustees

Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche

Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche is Professor of Law at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, honorarium member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and fellow of the Institut Convergence Migrations. Her researches focus on the exigencies of the rule of law and their limitations in cases of exceptions: the situations of serious crises which allow the concentration of powers and restriction of rights (e.g. the use of the state of emergency), and the areas of legal confinement which are conducive to abuses of power and rights infringements (e.g. camps and centres where migrants and refugees are detained). She is member of the editorial board of various reviews and is involved in numerous academics networks regarding human rights law. You can find more information about her activities and publications on her personal webpage.

Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard

Laure is a lawyer based in Brussels, where she works on EU and Belgian criminal justice policy. She qualified as a solicitor in London, specialised in EU law and worked in private practice in both London and Brussels before studying criminology. After participating in several academic research projects, Laure joined Fair Trials, a criminal justice watchdog, in 2018. As Legal Director for Europe, she led on EU advocacy, strategic litigation in European courts and the coordination of a European-wide network of criminal defence lawyers, civil society and academic organisations. She has also been working as a prison monitor since 2019 in a large pre-trial detention prison in Brussels, and since 2020 heads up the appeals committee that adjudicates on complaints from detained people against the prison administration.

Jonathan Bloch

Jonathan Bloch studied law at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. He was politically involved in South Africa in the worker and student movement and remains active in human rights circles in the UK. From 2002 until 2014 he chaired the Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust, one of the largest scholarship awarding organisations in South Africa. He was a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey 2002-14. He has co-authored several books on intelligence. He owns and runs a worldwide financial information business across four continents.

Victoria Canning

Victoria Canning is senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Bristol. She has spent over a decade working on the rights of women seeking asylum, specifically on support for survivors of sexual violence and torture with NGOs and migrant rights organisations. She recently completed an ESRC Research Leaders Fellowship focussing on harmful practice in asylum systems in Britain, Denmark and Sweden, and the gendered implications thereof. Vicky has experience researching in immigration detention in Denmark and Sweden, as well as Denmark’s main deportation centre. She is currently embarking on a study of torture case file datasets with the Danish Institute Against Torture which aims to create a basis from which to better identify and thus respond to sexual torture and sexualised torturous violence with refugee survivors of torture more broadly.

Nadine Finch

Nadine was a member of the Statewatch contributors group for a number of years and also previously a trustee. She was a human rights barrister between 1992 and 2015 and an Upper Tribunal Judge from 2015 to 2020. She is now an Honorary Senior Policy Fellow at the University of Bristol and an Associate at Child Circle, a children's rights NGO based in Brussels.

　ハンセン病患者とされた男性Ｆさんが、１９５２年に起きた殺人事件をめぐり隔離施設内の「特別法廷」で裁かれ、無実を訴えながら死刑を執行された「菊池事件」の第４次再審請求で、熊本地裁（中田幹人裁判長）は１月28日、請求を棄却 […]

2022年7月8日、安倍晋三は奈良市内で選挙応援の演説中に山上徹也により殺害された。山上の母が、統一教会に高額の献金をした信者だったことから、統一教会への世論が厳しくなる。統一教会だけではなく、それまで半世紀以上にわたり教団と癒着してきた自民党も窮地に陥る。TM特別報告では、両者の蜜月が生んだ犠牲者を省みることなく、統一教会と自民党が保身に走る姿が記録されている。

PCI Express Integrity and Data Encryption（PCIe IDE）は、PCIe接続を介して転送されるデータに対し、暗号化と整合性保護の機能を提供します。PCIe IDEの仕様において、リンク上の通信を制御または介在可能な攻撃者により、データの処理が正しく行われなくなる複数の問題が報告されています。

2026年の衆議院選挙は、表面的には政権選択や政策論争の形を取りつつも、その内実においては、日本社会がどの方向に組み込まれ続けるのか。すなわち、軍国主義と対米従属を前提とした資本主義的秩序を是認するのか、それともそれに抗する可能性を模索するのか、が改めて問われた選挙でした。本稿は、選挙結果そのものの勝敗ではなく、その背後で再生産されている構造と階級関係に焦点を当てた所感です。

Flock contracts have quietly spread to cities across the country. But Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) erode civil liberties from the moment they're installed. While officials claim these cameras keep neighborhoods safe, the evidence tells a different story. The data reveals how Flock has enabled surveillance of people seeking abortions, protesters exercising First Amendment rights, and communities targeted by discriminatory policing.

This is exactly why cities are saying no. From Austin to Cambridge to small towns across Texas, jurisdictions are rejecting Flock contracts altogether, proving that surveillance isn't inevitable—it's a choice.

Join EFF's Sarah Hamid and Andrew Crocker along with Reem Suleiman from Fight for the Future and Kate Bertash from Rural Privacy Coalition to explore what's happening as Flock contracts face growing resistance across the U.S. We'll break down the legal implications of the data these systems collect, examine campaigns that have successfully stopped Flock deployments, and discuss the real-world consequences for people's privacy and freedom. The conversation will be followed by a live Q&A. 

EFFecting Change Livestream Series:
Get the Flock Out of Our City
Thursday, February 19th
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pacific
This event is LIVE and FREE!

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