Letter ahead of the EU General Affairs Council’s meeting on 23 May 2022, on the situation of the rule of law and other Article 2 TEU values in Hungary. The hearing takes place at a time when the importance of the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights across Europe is in ever sharper focus....

Reacting to the Russian government’s decision to withdraw from the Council of Europe, and its declared intention to denounce the European Convention on Human Rights, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said:“Russia’s withdrawal from the...

Responding to reports regarding today’s decision by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to refer Turkey to the European Court of Human Rights for failing to release human rights defender Osman Kavala, Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks said: “With this landmark decision...

Croatian authorities have consistently assaulted refugees and migrants and denied them access to asylum, in contravention of European and International law, said Amnesty International, in response to a damning report released by the Council of Europe’s Committee on Prevention of Torture (CPT)...

Responding to the decision by a majority vote of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to begin the formal process of infringement against Turkey for failing to release human rights defender, Osman Kavala, Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks said: “The message from the...

by Nils Muižnieks, Europe Director, Amnesty International This opinion piece was originally published in the EU Observer At its London headquarters, Amnesty International has a large sign emblazoned in a hallway encouraging you to “Take Injustice Personally”. For activists, this means not becoming...

Amnesty International’s letter addressing the Permanent Representations to the Council of Europe asking for their support to the initiation of infringement proceedings under article 46 § 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Kavala v. Turkey at the forthcoming...

Amnesty International Hungary and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee hereby respectfully submittheir joint observations and recommendations under Rule 9(2) of the “Rules of the Committee ofMinisters for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements”regarding...

Further to our letter dated 23 February 2021, Amnesty International wants to renew the call for the initiation of infringement proceedings under article 46 § 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Kavala v. Turkey at the forthcoming 1411th DH meeting of the Committee of...

In a judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Russian authorities have failed to properly investigate the murder of Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights defender who was abducted and killed in Chechnya in 2009.  Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s...

Russia: European Court of Human Rights rules ban on sex-same unions violates human rights  Reacting to the news that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights by not providing same-sex unions with the ability to gain...

Dear Member of the Parliamentary Assembly, On 21 May Hungary took the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers amidst a serious national human rights, democracy and rule of law crisis which has no end in sight. Amnesty International would like to draw your attention to the human...