Amnesty International today revealed that six planes used by the CIA for renditions have made some 800 flights in or out of European airspace including 50 landings at Shannon airport in the Republic of Ireland.
01/12/2005 – Amnesty International is concerned that torture and ill-treatment at the hands of the police is widespread in Ukraine.
05/10/2005 – The Greek current legislative framework relating to refugee protection presents a number of gaps. As a result, the application of the law often results in violations of human rights, including the right of refugees not to be returned to a country where they face being subjected to torture or other serious human rights violations.
30/09/2005 – Amnesty International releases today new findings that show there is no end to the serious human rights violations in the North Caucasus. What the Russian government describes as its “war on terror” in this region is being used as a pretext for violations that include “disappearances”, torture, arbitrary detention and incommunicado detention in unacknowledged as well as official places of detention.
26/06/2005 – On the International Day in Support to Victims of Torture, Amnesty International, Fiacat, IRCT and OMCT make an appeal to the EU to take a clear and unequivocal stand in favour of the absolute prohibition of torture.
06/04/2005 – 30 cases of young people who were subjected, or allegedly subjected, to serious human rights violations by French police officers between 1991 and 2005. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture or ill-treatment and racist abuse.
06/04/2005 – Une trentaine d’affaires de graves violations des droits humains, avérées ou présumées, commises par des policiers français, le plus souvent contre des jeunes, entre 1991 et 2005. Ces violations ont pris la forme d’homicides illégaux, de recours abusifs à la force, d’actes de torture ou autres mauvais traitements et d’injures racistes.
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See also the Amnesty International public statement, available in “Press Releases”.
Amnesty International today called on the Croatian authorities to immediately implement the recommendations of the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (CAT) which were issued on 14 May 2004, after the CAT considered Croatia’s third periodic report.
28/05/2004 – Amnesty International today called on the Croatian authorities to immediately implement the recommendations of the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (CAT) – (Word document)