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Amnesty International Annual Report 2012
23/05/2012Amnesty International Annual Report 2012: The State of the World’s Human Rights
At last, EU progress on halting execution and torture trade
21/12/2011Amnesty International has welcomed long-awaited changes to European Union rules on the trade in drugs used for execution and equipment used for torture, which will be brought in today.
Death penalty for two men in Belarus
30/11/2011The two death sentences handed down in Belarus today followed a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards, said Amnesty International.
EU must press USA to resolve "war on terror" legacy
29/11/2011As the EU-US Summit convenes in Washington, Amnesty International has urged the European Union to challenge the USA for its continued imprisonment without charge of scores of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the US decision to use military commissions to try detainees, some of whom risk the death sentence if convicted.
Polish EU presidency: Weak on human rights
28/10/2011Mid-way through Poland’s six-month presidency of the European Union, Amnesty International has assessed the country’s progress in achieving various human rights goals it set at the presidency’s outset, and has concluded that the presidency’s overall performance has been weak and half-hearted.
EU urged: ‘Curb Europe’s last executioner’
10/10/2011As Amnesty International marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty, it has urged the European Union to maintain pressure on Belarus to demand an end to executions in the only remaining country in Europe or the former Soviet Union which still executes people.
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Unlock the truth: Time to come clean on secret CIA prison in Poland
12/06/2013 Poland and the European Union must ensure that the country urgently investigates long-standing accusations that it hosted a CIA-run secret prison where suspects were tortured between 2002 and 2005.
Forty-one years of solitude in Louisiana’s Angola prison
03/06/2013 How long do you think you would cope if you were confined to a cupboard-sized room of just six square metres, 23 hours a day? An hour? A day? A week? How about 41 years and counting? Forty-one years ago, three young black ...