12/07/2006 – Amnesty International welcomes the Commission’s stated intent to develop equivalent standards throughout the EU on the presumption of innocence, which is a fundamental principle of human rights and criminal law. For reference: Link to the EC document COM(2006) 0174...

14/06/2006 – Open letter to Heads of State or Government of the European Union: the European Council must put a resolute stop to the attitude of “see no evil, hear no evil” that has prevailed so far.

14/06/2006 – A new report focuses on six cases of rendition, involving seven European states and 13 victims. All involve men being bundled onto planes and transferred abroad, without due process, to places of detention where they have suffered abuse. The impact on both them and their families...

27/04/2006 – On the eve of the meeting of the JHA Council on 27 and 28 April 2006, Amnesty International and JUSTICE call on the Council to give a new impulse to the negotiations of the proposal for a Council Framework Decision on certain procedural rights in criminal proceedings throughout...

(Brussels, 27 April 2006) Implement a comprehensive system of procedural safeguards for fair trial, say Amnesty International and the UK law reform organization, JUSTICE, on the eve of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs Council. Years have passed since the EU first promised a framework decision on...

05/04/2006 – Renditions involve the transfer of people from one country to another in ways that bypass all judicial and administrative due process. In the context of the “war on terror”, this practice has usually been initiated by the USA and carried out with the collaboration, complicity or...

06/03/2006 – Today, terrorism related cases and specific national legislation aimed at combating terrorism, are a clear example that the limitation of fundamental rights such as the right to a fair trial, is not a theoretical problem in the EU.

10/01/2006 – Four years after the first detainees were transferred to the US naval base of Guantánamo Bay, hundreds of people of various nationalities continue to be held there without charge or trial in what Amnesty International has previously called a legal black hole.

18/02/2004 – On the eve of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, Amnesty International calls on the Presidency to act, as a matter of urgency, to fill the legislative gap left in European Union judicial cooperation in criminal matters by the Commission’s failure, to date, to produce a...

04/06/2003 – The Justice and Home Affairs Council of 5-6 June 2003 is due to approve the EU-US Agreements on Extradition and on Mutual Legal Assistance, Amnesty International releases its own analysis which points to serious concerns and omissions.

Amnesty International’s response to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Procedural Safeguards for Suspects and Defendants in Criminal Proceedings throughout the European Union – COM(2003)75 Click on this link to view the EC Green Paper COM(2003) 75 Download PDF attachement

Click here to link to Amnesty International’s campaign website “Justice for Everybody” for information on the human rights situation in the Russian Federation Click here to link to Amnesty International Report “Russian Federation: Denial of Justice” (AI index...