Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum and migration
Seán Binder is available for interview Amnesty spokespeople will be present at the trial, which begins on 10 January in Lesvos Ahead of the trial on 10 January of rescue workers Seán Binder and Sarah Mardini, Amnesty International is renewing its calls to the Greek authorities to drop all charges...
5th 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
Business and Human Rights
Spokespeople available Activists and lawyers press conference outside Kosovo Environment Ministry at 13.00 20 October Responding to news that the Austrian-based Kelkos Energy has withdrawn its baseless defamation lawsuits against Shpresa Loshaj and Adriatik Gacaferi, environmental activists...
20th October 2021
Statements And Reports
EU external relations
Six international human rights groups – Amnesty International, the Burundi Human Rights Initiative, DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project), Human Rights Watch, Protection International Africa and TRIAL International – condemned the decision of the Court of Appeal...
11th October 2021
Press Releases
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Leading human rights organisations have come together to demand the acquittal of 19 human rights defenders for their participation in a Pride parade in 2019, ahead of the verdict expected on Thursday. The 18 students and an academic at the Middle East Technical University (METU) are facing prison...
9th December 2020
Statements And Reports
Death Penalty
FEATURING TEMPLATE LETTERS, CASE CARDS AND MORE Welcome to Amnesty Write for Rights letter-writing and online action kit. In it, you’ll find everything you need to join Write for Write: our global letter-writing marathon and the world’s biggest human rights event. Template letters Every...
1st December 2020
Press Releases
Fair trial
Following the acceptance of a new indictment by the Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No.36 against civil society leader Osman Kavala, Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muiznieks said: “Having been in prison for almost three years, Osman Kavala is now facing a new trial under an absurd new...
9th October 2020
Press Releases
Detention
Following a majority court ruling to convict Taner Kılıç for ‘membership of the Fethullah Gülen terrorist organization’ and to convict Özlem Dalkıran, İdil Eser and Günal Kurşun for ‘assisting the Fethullah Gülenterrorist organization’, Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International’s Turkey researcher who...
3rd July 2020
Press Releases
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Ruling on Baldassi and others v France case finds in favour of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigners Responding to today’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, that the convictions of 11 activists in France for campaign actions calling for a boycott of Israeli products...
11th June 2020
Statements And Reports
Europe and Central Asia
Fair trial
This briefing is submitted in accordance with Rule 9(2) of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of the execution of judgments, in advance of the 1377th meeting (June 2020) (DH) of the Ministers’ Deputies on the execution of judgments. Amnesty International seeks to...
25th May 2020
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum and migration
People’s rights are being violated by governments in Europe and Central Asia, who are cracking down on protests and seeking to erode the independence of the judiciary to avoid accountability, Amnesty International said today as it published its annual review of human rights in the region. The...
16th April 2020
Statements And Reports
Europe and Central Asia
Detention
This briefing is submitted in accordance with Rule 9(2) of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of the execution of judgments, in advance of the 1369th (Human Rights) meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies on the execution of judgments. Considering Turkey’s obligations...
19th February 2020