The railway line at Subotica, in the north of Serbia, leading towards the Hungarian border. Credit : Amnesty International. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 30 July 2015 A looming change in Hungary’s Asylum Law could put tens of thousands of asylum-seekers fleeing war and persecution at...

© iStock If Europe is serious about leading the charge to eradicate torture and abolish the death penalty, it must close these loopholes urgently. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND OMEGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION JOINT PRESS RELEASE 28 May 2015 Companies based in the European Union (EU) are still marketing...

© Fedorov Oleksiy Amnesty International Media Advisory (Brussels, 01 April 2015) Amnesty International today launches its report, Death Sentences and Executions: 2014. The report covers death penalty trends and statistics from across the globe. In 2014, an alarming number of countries...

© Amnesty International The dark trend of governments using the death penalty in a futile attempt to tackle real or imaginary threats to state security and public safety was stark last year. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 1 April 2015 States used the death penalty in a flawed attempt to tackle...

31/03/2015 – This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2014. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures; information from individuals sentenced to death and their families and...

Amnesty International AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DIARY NOTE 4 March 2015 Amnesty International will publish this year’s global death penalty statistics on Wednesday 1 April 2015 00:01am GMT. §        Embargoed copy of the report available in advance...

20/10/2014 – Amnesty International has received a growing number of allegations of execution-style and other deliberate killings of civilians in eastern Ukraine since April 2014, in addition to those that have been reported in Crimea since its annexation by Russia and in Odessa on 2 May...

© Amnesty International / Florian Zeidler We oppose the death penalty in all circumstances – it is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Amnesty International Press Release 10 October 2014 Countries around the world continue to sentence to death or to execute people with...

Current regulations ban countries in the European Union from exporting goods such as restrain chairs. © Eric Tadsen, courtesy of The Progressive magazine The range of already banned items comprises a veritable chamber of horrors: thumb-cuffs, restraint chairs, metal batons and even injection...

States who cling to the death penalty are growing more and more isolated. © Rajput Yasir / Demotix The long-term trend is clear – the death penalty is becoming a thing of the past. We urge all governments who still kill in the name of justice to impose a moratorium on the death penalty...

27/03/2014 – 2013 was marked by some challenging setbacks on the journey to abolition of the death penalty. Four countries – Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria and Viet Nam – resumed executions and there was a significant rise in the number of people executed during the year compared with 2012,...

© AI Switzerland AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY Amnesty Protest for President Obama’s visit to Brussels (24 March 2014) On 25 March, the eve of the EU-US Summit in Brussels, Amnesty International will hold a protest to send a firm message to the United States (US) –...