As EU leaders and members of the European Parliament prepare to meet the President of Pakistan this week, Amnesty International urges the EU to call for an immediate moratorium on executions with view to abolishing the death penalty in Pakistan. In the Province of Punjab alone, at least 37 people...

29/08/2006 – Amnesty International is deeply concerned about statements made by President Kaczynski in July 2006 calling for the restoration of the death penalty in Poland. In the light of the Polish Prime Minister’s upcoming visit to Brussels, the EU Office of Amnesty International has...

12/05/2006 – In view of the next EU-China HR Dialogue that will take place on 25-/26 May 2006 in Vienna, Amnesty International publishes two documents: a memorandum on “Re-education through labour” and other forms of punitive administrative detention in China, May 2006; a briefing...

20/04/2006 – The world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of capital punishment during 2005. By the end of the year 86 countries had abolished the death penalty for all crimes. A further 11 countries had abolished it for all but exceptional crimes, such as wartime crimes.

(Brussels, 20 April 2006) Japan is one of the few industrialized countries which continues to practice the death penalty, says Amnesty International on the day it releases its annual analysis of the use of the death penalty worldwide. Amnesty International calls on the European Union to use the...

Today the 1,000th execution took place in the USA since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the US Supreme Court. Once again Amnesty International calls on US State and Federal authorities to put an immediate end to all executions. The death penalty is by nature ineffective, arbitrary...

06/09/2005 – The first known execution in India since the late 1990s took place in August 2004 amid widespread popular support. This raised fears that others now on death row in India may also soon be executed.

(Brussels, 6 September 2005) As the largest democracy in the world, India should lead by example in human rights protection in Asia by abolishing the death penalty, and the EU could use tomorrow’s EU-India summit to press India to do so, says Amnesty International. In the lead-up to the summit...

(Brussels 31 January 2005) In the lead-up to tomorrow’s EU-Uzbekistan Cooperation Council Amnesty International has written to the Luxembourg EU Presidency calling for a more robust approach towards Uzbekistan which Amnesty describes as “now the only executioner in Central Asia”....

31/01/2005 – In view of the forthcoming EU-Uzbekistan Co-operation Council on 1 February 2005, Amnesty International urges the EU to adopt a more robust approach to Uzbekistan’s failure to take tangible steps towards the abolition of the death penalty. Read more (pdf) La lettre est également...

Amnesty International has cautioned the EU to consider what message it will be sending to human rights activists in China, who are still being imprisoned 15 years after Tiananmen Square, if it lifts the EU arms embargo against China. Amnesty International’s call is reinforced by the message...

22/03/2004 – Amnesty International Report – AI index ASA 17/003/2004 dated 22 March 2004