by Nils Muižnieks, Europe Director, Amnesty International This opinion piece was originally published in the EU Observer At its London headquarters, Amnesty International has a large sign emblazoned in a hallway encouraging you to “Take Injustice Personally”. For activists, this means not becoming...

Amnesty International’s letter addressing the Permanent Representations to the Council of Europe asking for their support to the initiation of infringement proceedings under article 46 § 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Kavala v. Turkey at the forthcoming...

Amnesty International Hungary and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee hereby respectfully submittheir joint observations and recommendations under Rule 9(2) of the “Rules of the Committee ofMinisters for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements”regarding...

Further to our letter dated 23 February 2021, Amnesty International wants to renew the call for the initiation of infringement proceedings under article 46 § 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Kavala v. Turkey at the forthcoming 1411th DH meeting of the Committee of...

In a judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Russian authorities have failed to properly investigate the murder of Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights defender who was abducted and killed in Chechnya in 2009.  Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s...

Russia: European Court of Human Rights rules ban on sex-same unions violates human rights  Reacting to the news that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights by not providing same-sex unions with the ability to gain...

Dear Member of the Parliamentary Assembly, On 21 May Hungary took the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers amidst a serious national human rights, democracy and rule of law crisis which has no end in sight. Amnesty International would like to draw your attention to the human...

Dear Secretary General, Dear Permanent Representative, As Hungary assumes the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on 21 May 2021, Amnesty International would like to draw your attention to the human rights situation in this member State and raise concerns about a series of...

Responding to today’s judgment of the European Court of Human Rights which found that irregularities in the election of judges to the Constitutional Court of Poland had precluded access to a “tribunal established by law”, Amnesty International’s European Institutions Director, Eve Geddie, said: “We...

A new Action Plan on Human Rights, announced by President Erdogan on 2 March after a two-year long preparation, represents another missed opportunity for the Turkish authorities to display a strong commitment to addressing the root causes of the most crucial problems of Turkey’s human rights...

The arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Russian prominent anti-corruption campaigner and opposition figure Aleksei Navalny, and the concurrent arrests and detention on spurious charges of his colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), civil society activists and peaceful protesters...

The Council of Europe (CoE) has today taken a vital step towards stemming the trade in torture tools and execution equipment, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation said, as they called on all CoE member states to live up to commitments made today.   The CoE Committee of...