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
Press Releases
Asia and the Pacific
Detention
The undersigned organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who was arrested one year ago on November 22, 2021 on politically motivated terrorism and other charges. Parvez, the Coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil...
21st November 2022
Press Releases
Asylum and migration
New report details abuses against people who crossed into Lithuania from Belarus Treatment starkly contrasts with reception of people arriving from Ukraine EU Commission not fulfilling its duties under EU law Spokespeople available Lithuanian authorities have arbitrarily detained thousands of...
27th June 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
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
18 February 2021 The arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of the Russian prominent anti-corruption campaigner and opposition figure Aleksei Navalny, and the concurrent arrests and detention on spurious charges of his colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Foundation and other civil society activists and...
23rd February 2021
Letters
Detention
Dear Permanent Representative, In recent years, Amnesty International has reported extensively on the arbitrary use of criminal law to silence human rights defenders and government critics in Turkey. The ongoing pre-trial detention of Osman Kavala and of Selahattin Demirtaş, despite the European...
23rd February 2021
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
A court in Moscow has sentenced opposition activist and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny to two years and eight months in a penal colony, amid a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests which saw at least 5,021 people detained on 31 January alone. The Simonovsky District Court granted a motion put...
3rd February 2021
Letters
Europe and Central Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Dear High Representative, Dear Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ahead of the High Representative’s upcoming visit to Moscow, we are writing to urge the EU to take robust and public action to support those in Russia who courageously defend human rights in the face of spiralling levels of repression. It...
3rd February 2021
Letters
Middle East & North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Joint open letter to the EU and its member states Dear High Representative, Dear Foreign Ministers, We are writing ahead of the January 25th Foreign Affairs Council discussion on Egypt to raise our serious concerns, once again, about the human rights crisis unfolding in the country, and to urge the...
21st January 2021
Statements And Reports
Death Penalty
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1st December 2020
Press Releases
Detention
Amnesty International highlights Germain Rukuki’s case in its flagship annual letter-writing campaign The Burundian authorities must overturn human rights defender Germain Rukuki’s conviction and release him immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today as it launched its annual...
20th November 2020
Press Releases
Middle East & North Africa
Detention
Earlier this week, more than 278 lawmakers from across Europe and the United States sent public letters to Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with a strong message denouncing the situation of prisoners of conscience in the country. In a show of mounting concern, 84 members of the European...
21st October 2020