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Aborigine skulls to be taken home ... constitutional courts will have to determine clear boundaries that the legislative and executive power must not exceed within the protection against terrorism, Rychetsky said.Karel Jungwiert, Czech judge at the European Court of Human Rights, said democratic society must not violate certain principles.
Torturing is, for instance, unacceptable under all circumstances, he added."The public often asks whether it is our weakness in the fight against terrorism. I, on the contrary, suppose that it is our strength since we are not and will not be like them," said Jungwiert.Some speakers at the conference also recalled the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the United States since which seven years have passed today.Rychetsky said terrorism has adapted to globalisation and can strike anytime and anywhere, while individual countries often face it isolated and unprepared.Gianni Buquicchio, secretary of the Venice Commission, said the anti-terrorist fight often demands state interventions in fundamental human rights, such as the freedom od assembly, movement and expression.Intelligence services are penetrating people's privacy, he added."The state must secure that these interventions are adequate. The executive must act but this right must not be arbitrary, it must be subordinated to democracy," Buquicchio pointed out.If this balance is lost, democracy will be threatened, he added.
(Ceske Noviny)
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