National security

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) is informing that the Police Service of Northern Ireland are investigating recent attacks against Romanians and other Eastern Europeans in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to establish whether or not they can be considered hate crimes.

Increasing amount of illegal online material reported

BELGRADE -- The Net Patrol mechanism for reporting illegal and harmful online content has received more than 900 reports in 11 months.

140 of these have been forwarded to the INHOPE network.

OSCE explores ways to prevent extremism in the Balkans

Experts discuss approaches to counter radicalisation of potential terrorists.

The OSCE and the Balkan countries are working to address political and socio-economic factors that lead to radicalisation and recruitment of terrorists, officials said.

Crimes rates dropped in the first semester of 2014 compared to the previous year, according to a police report released on Thursday. The report showed that there were 52 cases of manslaughter recorded in the first six months this year (six of which were motivated by robbery), compared to 70 recorded in the second semester of 2013, where 21 had been during robberies.

Ionut Budisteanu's owes his recent success in the Shanghai IT contest where he won the first prize to an artificial intelligence device for the automatic surveillance of premises and buildings, the young computer scientist told AGERPRES on Thursday.

The police officers who raided the houses of ranking military officers, journalists, academicians and activists five years ago as part of the so called “Ergenekon” and “Balyoz” investigations are now themselves on the receiving end.

Nine intelligence officers, including a former branch head, have disappeared after anti-terror teams launched a criminal probe into the “illegal wiretapping” of government officials, prompting the police to take measures to prevent them from leaving the country.

The FBI have targeted Muslims in abusive counterterrorism ‘sting operations’ based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch says in a report The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks, a human rights group said in a report published on July 21.

MPs from all political parties have approached the National Special Surveillance Devices Oversight Office, according to the director of the unit.

Boyko Rashkov, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio, presented Monday a report on the activities of the Office in the first 6 months of its existence.

A magistrate visited Korydallos Prison Monday with the aim of taking a deposition from terrorist Nikos Maziotis, who was arrested last week.

Maziotis was moved from Evangelismos Hospital to the jail on Saturday on his own request even though doctors advised him to stay for treatment following his shoulder operation.