06/03/2015 – In their preliminary public observations to the members of the Committee on Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Related Issues (COD-CTE) of the Council of Europe on the terms of reference to draft an Additional Protocol supplementing the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention...

© Haydn Blackey – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Respecting human rights is essential to maintaining security and not an obstacle to keeping people safe. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 10 February 2015 Proposed amendments to the Spanish criminal code that would expand...

Credit: Adolfo Lujan / DISO Press https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ In the aftermath of the appalling attacks in Paris it is vital that France now takes a measured response and does not chip away at hard-fought human rights. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 23 January 2013...

23/01/2015 – On 21 January 2015, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls publicly announced the adoption of new measures to combat terrorism. These include the introduction of the crimes of “defamation” and “insult” into the Criminal Code, the establishment of a database of individuals...

Amnesty International’s report links details in the US Senate report to open source information regarding allegations that secret sites existed in Lithuania, Poland, and Romania.© Christian Schmidt/Corbis The Senate report makes it abundantly clear that foreign governments were essential...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 13 January 2015 Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, is attending this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. He will be available for interview on: ·        Armed groups and the deadly attacks...

This was not the wide investigation into the hundreds of claims of human rights violations, including torture, against the British armed forces in Iraq that victims and NGOs have called for. Amnesty International News Flash 17 December 2014 Today’s conclusion in London of the Al-Sweady inquiry into...

© APGraphicsBank This report provides yet more damning detail of some of the human rights violations that were authorised by the highest authorities in the USA after 9/11. Amnesty International Press Release 9 December 2014 A Senate committee report summary detailing torture methods used as...

© Reuben Steains Amnesty International News Flash 30 October 2014 Today’s decision of the Court of Appeal in London permitting a lawsuit regarding illegal transfer, torture and other ill-treatment to proceed puts the onus on the UK government to answer allegations for its role in a...

09/10/2014 – 07/10/2014 – The prosecution of Moazzam Begg, a UK national formerly held at Guantánamo Bay, collapsed on 1 October 2014, days before his trial on terrorism-related charges was due to begin. Moazzam Begg was formally acquitted of all charges by the trial judge.

A watch tower overlooks the area near the Polish secret prison site just outside of Stare Kiejkuty, Poland.© AP Today’s historic rulings finally unlock the truth about a dark period of Poland’s recent history and mark a milestone against impunity. Poland knowingly became part of...

Abdul-Hakim Belhaj has been pursuing a claim that British officials has been pursuing a claim that British officials were complicit is his alleged abduction, illegal transfer to Libya and torture.© EPA/SABRI ELMHEDW This makes a mockery of the law. How are courts ever to investigate...