21/02/2014 – Amnesty International has welcomed the decision of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General to open an investigation into the alleged rendition to Lithuania of Mustafa al-Hawsawi. The decision comes after the Vilnius Regional Court ruled on 28 January that al-Hawsawi had a right to an...

21/02/2014 – Amnesty International has documented numerous cases of excessive use of force by law enforcement officers in policing the demonstrations in Ukraine since November 2013 and calls on the authorities to take the following measures:

Protesters in Ukraine clashed with police over new laws stifling freedom of expression© AFP/Getty Images There must be no impunity for law enforcement officers who resort to abusive use of force.  We have repeatedly called on the Ukrainian authorities to bring perpetrators to justice, but...

View of a detention centre in the area of Pagani, Mytilini island © Amnesty International If accurate, the deeply shocking statements attributed today to the Greek Chief of Police would expose a willful disregard for the rights and welfare of refugees and migrants seeking shelter and...

Amnesty International launched a new report in June to unlock the truth about CIA secret prisons in Poland ©Grzegorz Żukowski AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Council of Europe resolved to curb state secrecy and ensure free access to information to the public   (Brussels, 2 October...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL   PRESS RELEASE   Human rights violations at Gezi Park must not be repeated   (Brussels, 2 October 2013) Human rights violations occurred on a massive scale during the Turkish government’s crushing of the Gezi Park protests this summer, says a report...

Dozens of Palestinian police attacked peaceful protesters during two demonstrations in Ramallah in July 2012. © ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/GettyImages AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   EU: Ensure accountability for abuses by police in West Bank   (Brussels, 23 September 2013) The EU must press...

23/07/2012 – Amnesty International welcomed a new European Parliament (EP) report that again urges implicated EU member states to investigate their involvement in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programmes.

03/07/2012 – The attached list of voting recommendations addresses specific amendments proposed by both the rapporteur and other MEPs and our position on each amendment.

26/06/2012 – The report on European complicity in the CIA rendition and secret detention programmes led by Hélène Flautre MEP is being finalised in the LIBE committee and will be put to vote on 10 July. Today, Amnesty International launches its Unlock The Truth in Europe...

26/06/2012 – We are writing to you to express our concern about the lack of concrete action towards reform of Europe’s pre-trial detention regime since the November 2011 consultation deadline to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Detention. We urge the European Commission to take...

    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Uzbekistan killings anniversary: EU reneging on human rights pledge   (Brussels, 11 May 2012) Tomorrow marks seven years since the killing of several hundred mainly peaceful demonstrators, including women and children, by security forces...