Press Releases
European Union Member States
Asylum and migration
Attempting to legalize pushbacks of asylum seekers at Lithuania’s borders would green-light torture, Amnesty International said today ahead of this week’s expected vote in the Lithuanian Parliament on a bill that aims to legalize summary returns under domestic legislation. If passed, amendments to...
17th April 2023
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Police and Justice
Law enforcement officials sent to police the region devastated by Türkiye’s 6 February earthquakes have beaten, tortured, and otherwise ill-treated people they suspect of theft and looting, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. One person died in custody after being tortured. In...
5th April 2023
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Detention
Solitary confinement is being used in ways that violate the rights of those awaiting trial, including being applied to people with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses Some suspects held in isolation for almost two months in violation of their human rights Iceland is vastly overusing...
31st January 2023
Letters
Europe and Central Asia
Armed conflict
On 12 July 2022, Amnesty International, along with eight other international human rights NGOs sent a letter to the High Representative of the European Union and the 27 EU Foreign Ministers, calling on the European Union to initiate, table and foster broad support for a resolution to create a...
13th July 2022
Press Releases
Middle East & North Africa
Asylum and migration
Fresh evidence of harrowing violations, including sexual violence, against men, women and children intercepted while crossing the Mediterranean Sea and forcibly returned to detention centres in Libya, highlights the horrifying consequences of Europe’s ongoing cooperation with Libya on migration and...
15th July 2021
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
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
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum and migration
• Amnesty International spokespeople available for interview • Press conference opposite administrative court of Paris at 11.00 25 April Amnesty International will today (Thursday April 25) legally challenge the French government’s decision to donate six boats to the Libyan Navy, which includes the...
25th April 2019
Press Releases
Africa
Asylum and migration
Responding to a news report that more than 700 refugees and migrants in Libya were trapped in a detention centre in Qasr bin Ghasher in close proximity to intense armed clashes in Tripoli, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Magdalena Mughrabi, said: “The...
16th April 2019
Press Releases
Asylum and migration
Reacting to reports that EU governments have agreed to significantly downscale the EunavforMed Operation ‘Sophia’, withdrawing ships from the central Mediterranean and only continuing the mission with air surveillance, Matteo de Bellis, Amnesty International’s Migration Researcher, said: “This is...
28th March 2019
Press Releases
Asylum and migration
Spokesperson recently returned from Tunisia where he interviewed migrants and refugees subjected to abuses in Libya Ahead of the meeting of European Home Affairs Ministers, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have today published a 20-point action plan to address the current unsustainable...
6th March 2019
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
• Solidarity vigil TONIGHT Wednesday 20 Feb 18.00 Schuman Roundabout• Short speech from Maside Ocak Kışlakçı, longstanding member of ‘Saturday Mothers’ A member of the ‘Saturday Mothers’ group of women in Istanbul, who have been banned by Turkish authorities from protesting in Istanbul’s...
20th February 2019