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20/01/2014 – Amnesty International believes that a framework strategy enshrining human rights at the core of the EU’s internal legal and political machinery (including normative and enforcement powers, as well as political dynamics) would help to overcome the perceived dichotomy between the...

16/01/2014 – Ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council on Monday 20 January, Amnesty International calls on you to ensure that human rights remain at the centre of European Union (EU) external policy and action in all countries on the agenda, including Central African Republic (CAR), Syria, Egypt,...

The three British men say they were tortured in prison in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and 2001.© FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE European Court blocks last hope for British Saudi torture victims (Brussels, 15 January 2014) The European Court of Human Rights...

© Amnesty International AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY Amnesty International’s Secretary General 20 & 21 January Brussels visit: interview availability (Brussels, 13 January 2014) Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Salil Shetty, will visit Brussels on 20 and 21...

Amnesty Europe is asking people to tweet questions for Salil Shetty to ask the EU using hashtag #AmnestyAsksEU Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General will visit Brussels in just over a week, on 20 and 21 January. He will meet senior European Union (EU) representatives to...

Madina Ablyazov, the daughter of Kazakh opposition figure Mukhtar Ablyazov, in a French court to fight her father’s extradition. © BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images Not only do we have fears that Ablyazov would not get a fair trial in Russia or Ukraine, there is the real danger that he will...

The position taken by the UNHCR underlines the shameful treatment of asylum seekers in Bulgaria. © NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images Asylum seekers in Bulgaria, including many fleeing from war-torn Syria, are being held in appalling conditions, sometimes for months on end. They lack access to...

Salil Shetty, Secretary General, new year, message © Matt Writtle A New Year’s message to activists from Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General As a new year begins, I’d like to celebrate some of the things we achieved together in 2013. We are still counting the tweets,...

Many thanks for all you have done in 2013 to support Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office! From all the team Amnesty Europe, Fight Discrimination in Europe, When You Don’t Exist and End FGM, Happy Holidays! We look forward to continuing our work with you through 2014 and...

Libyan Abdel Hakim Belhaj has sued UK former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, for his government’s role in renditions to Libya.© MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images Today’s announcement is yet another effort by the UK to shirk its responsibility to get at the full truth AMNESTY...

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...