AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS European Court of Human Rights hears key case concerning European complicity in the US-led secret detentions and renditions programme Today the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held a public hearing in the case El-Masri…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU must stop stonewalling on investigating CIA renditions complicity (Brussels, 27 March 2012) Five years after the European Parliament’s first report on CIA renditions, Amnesty International has urged European Union countries to make a renewed commitment to investigating their own involvement. Parliament’s committee on Civil Liberties, Justice & Home…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 8 December 2011 Romania must come clean over secret prisons The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centres on its territory, Amnesty International said today after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a German newspaper. Süddeutsche Zeitung today published compelling fresh…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Polish EU presidency: Weak on human rights (Brussels, 28 October, 2011) Mid-way through Poland’s six-month presidency of the European Union, Amnesty International has assessed the country’s progress in achieving various human rights goals it set at the presidency’s outset, and has concluded that the presidency’s overall performance has been weak and…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Europe’s ‘secret CIA prison’ states must not hide behind secrecy (Brussels, 6 October 2011) As the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly votes in favour of a resolution and recommendation on the abuse of state secrecy and national security in the context of the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programmes, Amnesty International…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Amnesty International issues fresh assessment on EU’s secret prisons (Brussels, 29 September 2011) As Amnesty International issues a new report on secret detention in Lithuania, it has appealed to the authorities in Vilnius to investigate allegations of illegal activity and the European Parliament to produce its own new report into the…
29/09/2011 – Lithuania launched a criminal investigation in January 2010 into the two secret CIA detention sites (already acknowledged by a parliamentary enquiry) but it was abruptly terminated only after a year in January 2011 on highly dubious grounds. No one has ever been held accountable.
© Nancy Ross / iStockphoto Amnesty International challenges EU: “Pursue justice for CIA renditions and detention victims” In the week before the European Union-US summit, Amnesty International has called on the EU and its member states’ governments to deliver justice for the victims of the CIA’s unlawful rendition and secret detention programmes. “The EU has…
Interim assessment of the Spanish Presidency’s first three months The silence in the “War on Terror” and the lack of interest on immigrants and refugees’ rights blurs the EU’s commitment to human rights (Madrid / Brussels, April 2010) – After the first three months of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union (EU), Amnesty International…
09/06/2009 – Amnesty International is writing a letter ahead of the parliamentary vote in the Lithuanian Parliament on the proposed amendment to the “Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information” that will take place on 11 June 2009. It would, if passed, prohibit the discussion of homosexuality in schools…
EU Member State Latvia bans Baltic pride event As Latvia bans the Baltic Pride march planned for this Saturday in Riga, Amnesty International calls on the EU to press the Latvian authorities to let the march go ahead. Riga City Council has revoked permission for the march, organized by the Latvian organization Mozaika, the Lithuanian…