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In recent years, human rights defenders in China have faced increasing intimidation, harassment, arbitrary detention and attacks. China represses severely a range of human rights, including the rights to: freedom of expression; seek, receive and impart information; freedom of association and...

The European Union (EU) and its member states are falling short on their commitment to support and protect human rights defenders (HRDs) who are facing mounting deadly threats and attacks, a new Amnesty International report out today shows.  ...

Around the world, people are speaking up and working to defend human rights, frequently at risk to their safety, freedom or life. They are harassed and intimidated, unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned. Some are tortured, killed or forcibly disappeared. Many states have introduced restrictive laws to...

The severe crackdown on civil society in Saudi Arabia, especially since 2011 and more acutely since May 2018, has not been matched by a clear or resolute EU strategy to ensure the support and protection of HRDs. The policies of the EU and its member states have instead been characterized by...

Reacting to the European Parliament’s condemnation of the ongoing repression and torture of a group of women’s rights defenders detained in Saudi Arabia since May 2018, the Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office Covadonga de la Campa said: ‘The European Parliament’s...

The EU must show its support for all of those human rights defenders, lawyers and others who peacefully exercise their rights in China AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 1 June 2017 EU: Challenge climate of repression in China ·         Amnesty...

  With this vote, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has made it clear to the authorities that human rights cannot be trampled underfoot without scrutiny and ultimately consequences QUOTE   Turkey: Council of Europe takes Turkey to task over human rights crackdown –      ...

People take part in a demonstration denouncing Iran’s use of the death penalty on January 28, 2016 in Paris. ©DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images The European delegation’s trip must show Iran that renewed relations between the EU and Tehran hinge on the respect and protection of human rights in...

Action against the flogging of the blogger Raif Badawi. ©Henning Schacht/Amnesty International By cooperating with Saudi Arabia and failing to simultaneously and publicly condemn their human rights’ violations, the EU is essentially giving the green light for abuses to continue. AMNESTY...

Amnistia Internacional México/Sergio Ortiz Borbolla The European Parliament has sent a strong message today challenging the inconsistencies within the EU’s approach to stamping out torture. If the EU is serious about leading the charge to eradicate torture and abolish the death...

The railway line at Subotica, in the north of Serbia, leading towards the Hungarian border. Credit : Amnesty International. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 30 July 2015 A looming change in Hungary’s Asylum Law could put tens of thousands of asylum-seekers fleeing war and persecution at...