(Brussels 12 of June, 2006) Israel’s persistent violations of human rights should be a priority issue at tomorrow’s EU-Israel Association Council, says Amnesty International.

(Brussels, 20 February 2006)  The EU must address Iran’s widespread human rights violations, says Amnesty International, as Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki meets with EU high officials Javier Solana, Benita Ferrero-Waldner and the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

20/02/2006 – Six months after Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took up office as the country’s new president, the human rights situation in Iran remains dire. Scores of critics and opponents of the government continue to be imprisoned, many following grossly unfair trials, the death penalty is widely used and torture is common. The full report is available at: https://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE130102006

(Brussels, 10 January 2006) The European Union must urge the US Government to close its detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, says Amnesty International, four years after the first prisoners were transferred to the naval base where hundreds continue to be detained without charge.

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.

14/11/2005 – Three Yemeni nationals had “disappeared” in 2003, kept in complete isolation in a series of secret detention centres apparently run by US agents. These cases documented in this report suggest that the network of clandestine interrogation centres is not reserved solely for high-value detainees, but may be larger, more comprehensive and better organized than previously suspected.

European Commission should put pressure on Greece

(Brussels 31 August 2005) With the EU-Algeria Association Agreement due to enter into force tomorrow, Amnesty International today called on the European Union to send a strong message to Algeria not to enact legislation that will exonerate those responsible for serious human rights abuses.

20/06/2005 – The report describes the barriers blocking the way of many people who are fleeing persecution and serious abuses in their country of origin, and the situation which refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants encounter when they arrive at Spain’s southern border (Melilla, Ceuta, the Canary Islands and the Andalusian coast), one of the European borders with the highest influx of immigrants (Versión española disponible).