Media advisory

19/02/2008 – Briefing paper for the Council and Commission, highlighting current human rights concerns in Turkey.

18/12/2007 – Letter to Ms Ferrero-Waldner to urge the Moroccan authorities to address freedom of expression, association and assembly, torture and ill-treatment and the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. This letter was also sent to Mr Solana and Mr Amado

21 November 2007

As EU leaders meet today in Lahti, Finland, all eyes will be on their confrontation with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in light of the onslaught on freedom of expression and association in Russia.

20/07/2006 – Letter to European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla regarding Amnesty International’s concerns on freedom of assembly in Latvia and the climate of discrimination and intimidation against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. See also documents: Latvian authorities fail to protect LGBT community Latvia must protect the rights to freedom of assembly and expression for all  

(Brussels, 15 February 2006) Impunity and attacks on freedom of expression are threatening the upcoming Congressional and Presidential elections in Colombia, says Amnesty International, in the run-up to a visit by the Andean Delegation of the European Parliament.

Events of recent weeks have highlighted the difficult question of what should be the legitimate scope of freedom of expression in culturally diverse societies.

24/11/2004 – On the eve of the EU-Russia Summit in The Hague, Amnesty International is presenting the EU with detailed testimonies showing that victims of human rights violations in Chechnya who complain to European institutions have been killed or “disappeared”. (RTF document).

Amnesty International has cautioned the EU to consider what message it will be sending to human rights activists in China, who are still being imprisoned 15 years after Tiananmen Square, if it lifts the EU arms embargo against China.

14/01/2004 – Amnesty International report: “Back in the Spotlight: Allegations of police ill-treatment and excessive use of force in Germany” (AI index EUR 23/001/2004 dated 14 January 2004)

Amnesty International report: “People’s Republic of China: serious human rights violations and the crackdown on dissent continue” (AI index AFR 17/047/2002).