29/09/2011 – Lithuania launched a criminal investigation in January 2010 into the two secret CIA detention sites (already acknowledged by a parliamentary enquiry) but it was abruptly terminated only after a year in January 2011 on highly dubious grounds. No one has ever been held accountable.

03/08/2011 – Following the Polish Prosecutor General’s decision to extend for a further six months the investigation into the involvement of Polish authorities in the US-led rendition and secret detention programmes, Amnesty International calls on the Prosecutor General’s office...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU must halt Europe’s last executioner (Brussels, 27 July 2011) Amnesty International has responded to the recent execution of two Belarusian men by calling for Poland’s European Union presidency to increase pressure on its eastern neighbour to...

01/07/2011 – Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the current situation of human rights lawyers in China, and urges the EU to call on the Chinese government to guarantee space for lawyers to exercise their profession. Human rights lawyers are at serious risk of being picked up and...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE China: Dark times for lawyers as repression intensifies The Chinese government has unleashed an uncompromising series of measures intended to rein in the legal profession and suppress lawyers pursuing human rights cases, Amnesty International said today. Against...

29/06/2011 – Human rights lawyers in China are under siege from a state bent on imposing absolute control on them. These lawyers are threatened with suspension of their licences, disbarment and criminal punishment for taking up sensitive cases. Where threats or suspension fail, lawyers are...

Giving human rights credit: EU countries agree to toughen scrutiny of export loans loans (Brussels, 29 June 2011) EU permanent representatives have today endorsed the European Parliament’s proposal to make national export credit agencies (ECAs) more accountable for the support they give companies...

24/06/2011 – The European Commission is considering a review of the European Roma Platform with the objective to strengthen the Platform. We would very much welcome such a reform. In its current form, the European Roma Platform does not reach its objectives to ensure exchange of expertise,...

23/06/2011 – The right to adequate housing is a human right to which everyone is entitled without discrimination. However, in Romania, the right to housing is not effectively recognised or protected by national law. This often leaves people without access to justice for human rights...

31/05/2011 – Amnesty International is concerned that the new Constitution of Hungary, adopted by the Hungarian Parliament on Monday 18 April, introduces changes which may restrict internationally protected human rights and calls on the Commission to take a position on the matter and to react...

25/05/2011 – The EU–Japan Summit in Brussels is an excellent opportunity for these two global actors to reiterate and act on their commitment to protecting and promoting human rights at home and abroad. Japan and the EU must take a clear stand on the need to fight impunity and ensure...

11/05/2011 – Ahead of European Council President Van Rompuy’s visit to China, Amnesty International urges him to raise human rights concerns at the highest level of leadership. While China is emerging as a global power, the human rights situation in the country is deteriorating. We are...