Use of the micro-blogging site Twitter increased rapidly during last summer’s Gezi Park protests. © OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images The decision to block Twitter is an unprecedented attack on internet freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey. The draconian measure, brought under...

Laurent Hini AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU GOVERNMENTS’ LEADERS MUST STOP BURYING THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND AND ENSURE PROTECTIVE MIGRATION & ASYLUM POLICIES (Brussels 20 March)The lives and rights of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees are being threatened by European Union (EU)...

20/03/2014 – Since the beginning of the Euromaydan protest on 21November 2013, Amnesty International has documented numerous cases of human rights abuses, including violations of the right to peaceful assembly, repeated excessive use of force by law enforcement officers, harassment of those...

© Laurent Hini, for Amnesty International France AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY Amnesty International sandy beach protest in support of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers’ rights: Running order for 20 March (Brussels, 19 March 2013) Tomorrow, Thursday 20 March, between 13.00 and...

Hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers are held in prison-like conditions in Cyprus while awaiting deportation. © Amnesty International. It is shameful to think that within the EU people who have committed no crime are being held in harsh prison-like conditions for prolonged periods, in some...

© Pavlo Skala AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO MEET EUROPEAN UNION REPRESENTATIVES TO ENSURE HUMAN RIGHTS ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE (Brussels, 17 March 2013) The director of Amnesty International Ukraine, Tanya Mazur, will meet European...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY SAVE THE DATE: 20 MARCH 2014 13 March 2013 One week today, on Thursday 20 March at 12:45, Amnesty International will re-create a beach on the ‘’shores’’ of the European Council in Brussels. Activists (dressed in black or as tourists) will...

Berkin is the fourth person to die as a direct result of abusive use of force by police officers during last year’s Gezi Park protests. The lack of effective investigations into the use of such force which also left thousands injured has touched a nerve and resulted in a wave of...

11/03/2014 – We are part icularly concerned that the current debate within the Commission seems to favour a restrictive approach that would limit the scope of the forthcoming Communicat ion to the rule of law in its narrow interpretat ion, disregarding the other values listed in Art icle...

Residents wait to receive UNRWA food aid at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp on January 31, 2014.© unrwa.org Syrian forces are committing war crimes by using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. The harrowing accounts of families having to resort to eating cats and dogs, and civilians attacked...

10/03/2014 – Three years after popular pro-reform then anti-government protests drew a brutal response from the Syrian authorities, leading to the internal armed conflict that continues to rage, around a quarter of a million civilians are living under siege across Syria. Many have endured...

By Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office Living free from violence is a universal right. And international law enshrines the right of women to be protected from all forms of violence.  Yet as we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, one...