Statements And Reports
Death Penalty
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1st December 2020
Statements And Reports
Asia and the Pacific
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
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...
25th September 2019
Press Releases
Africa
Business and Human Rights
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. ...
25th September 2019
Statements And Reports
Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
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...
25th September 2019
Statements And Reports
Middle East & North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
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...
25th September 2019
Press Releases
Middle East & North Africa
Death Penalty
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...
14th February 2019
Press Releases
Asia and the Pacific
Death Penalty
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...
1st June 2017
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Death Penalty
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 – ...
25th April 2017
Press Releases
Middle East & North Africa
Death Penalty
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...
15th April 2016
Press Releases
Middle East & North Africa
Death Penalty
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...
16th December 2015
Press Releases
Business and Human Rights
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...
27th October 2015
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum and migration
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...
30th July 2015