AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU must halt Europe’s last executioner (Brussels, 27 July 2011) Amnesty International has responded to the recent execution of two Belarusian men by calling for Poland’s European Union presidency to increase pressure on its eastern neighbour to...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE China: Dark times for lawyers as repression intensifies The Chinese government has unleashed an uncompromising series of measures intended to rein in the legal profession and suppress lawyers pursuing human rights cases, Amnesty International said today. Against...

28/03/2011 – At least 23 countries were known to have carried out judicial executions in 2010. This is four more than 2009, when Amnesty International recorded the lowest number of executing countries since the organisation began monitoring death penalty figures.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Deserting death row EU urged to oppose executions (Brussels 28 March 2011) As Amnesty International issues its annual worldwide t on death sentences and executions, it has criticised the European Union for its weakening opposition to the death penalty around the...

 Amnesty International EU Office Press Release Death penalty report: Belarus executions underline the need for more EU action (Brussels 30 March) Amnesty International is urging the EU to strongly and publicly condemn the two executions in Belarus from earlier this month. In a letter to...

30/03/2010 – The world witnessed further progress towards ending judicial killings by states in 2009. For the first time since Amnesty International started keeping records, not a single execution was carried out in all of Europe, while important steps were taken to turn the United Nations...

30/03/2010 –   Amnesty International would like to draw attention to the attached report Death Sentences and Executions 2009, which is published on 30 March 2010. The report documents the annual statistics of death sentences and executions carried out around the globe, concluding that in...

Help end child executions   Ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, Amnesty International has written to European Parliamentarians urging them to sign a global petition to end child executions. The appeal, by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, calls on...

08/06/2009 – Amnesty calls for prison conditions and use of the death penalty to be discussed at Ministerial Meeting.

EU: Don’t stay silent on Japan’s accelerating use of the death penalty (Brussels, 4 May) As the number of recorded executions in Japan goes up, the EU must urgently raise the issue of the death penalty with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, says Amnesty International ahead of the...

24/03/2009 – Over the past five months, the EU has embarked on a new period of engagement with Belarus, including the suspension of travel restrictions, increased bilateral political dialogue and technical cooperation with the Belarusian authorities, and the prospect of the country’s...

EU: Now is the time to act to help end the death penalty in Belarus (Brussels, 24 March) The EU should use the new period of engagement with Belarus to press for the abolition of the death penalty, says Amnesty International in a letter addressed to Czech Foreign Minister Mr Schwarzenberg...