With the EU’s political and trade relationship with China being actively discussed, Amnesty International today releases its latest report on the use of the death penalty in China and calls on EU foreign ministers meeting today to actively consider the report, which calls for an immediate...

Amnesty International Report – AI index ASA 17/003/2004 dated 22 March 2004 See also the press release “EU-China relations and the death penalty”, go to “Press Releases” tab. Cover page Summary Text

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.

(Brussels 26 February) On the eve of tomorrow’s meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers in Brussels, Amnesty International calls on the EU not to agree to anything in the proposed EU/USA Cooperation Agreement in Criminal Matters and on Extradition that does not explicitly prohibit...

Amnesty International says EU leaders must tell the US President he is on a collision course with Europe and much of the rest of the world, on key human rights issues such as the death penalty and the establishment of the International Criminal Court. With Juan Raul Garza due to be executed under...