Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/europe.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410082008&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court on 14 April to order the judicial investigation into allegations of torture made by Alberto Videma Morillas to be re-opened, on the grounds that the initial investigation was not effective 2008-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 issues=INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES,TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR040022008&lang=e On the occasion of the European Union -- Central Asia summit, which begins today, Amnesty International is urging both sides to demonstrate a serious commitment -- which so far has regrettably been lacking -- to implement without further delay the human rights component of the strategy 2008-04-09T00:00:00-05:00 issues=EU,INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR450042008&lang=e On 9 April 2008 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales gave its judgment in two key cases concerning the UK government's policy of 'deportation with assurances': that of a Jordanian national, Abu Qatada, and those of two Libyan nationals, referred to for the purposes of legal proceedings in the UK as 'DD' and 'AS' 2008-04-09T00:00:00-05:00 issues=FEAR OF TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT,FOREIGN NATIONALS,REFOULEMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR720032008&lang=e Slovakia: NGOs call on Slovakia on International Roma Day to address discrimination of Roma in education 2008-04-08T00:00:00-05:00 issues=CHILDREN,COUNCIL OF EUROPE,EDUCATION,ETHNIC GROUPS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410072008&lang=e London - In light of the recent statement by the Basque armed group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom, ETA) claiming responsibility for the murder on 7 March this year of former councillor Isaías Carrasco, Amnesty International reiterates its condemnation of the killing and ETA's planned campaign threatening representatives of political parties and the press 2008-04-03T00:00:00-05:00 issues=NON-GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES,POLITICIANS,UNLAWFUL KILLING http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR180022008&lang=e This document is the summary of a report which considers that the mechanisms in Denmark for addressing alleged human rights violations by police officers fail to respect victims’ rights to redress and reparation. Amnesty International has had long-standing concerns about the mechanisms for investigating alleged human rights violations by police officers in Denmark. 2008-04-01T00:00:00-05:00 issues=COMPENSATION,INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES,LEGAL SYSTEMS,POLICE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR500032008&lang=e 2008-03-07T00:00:00-05:00 issues=REFUGEES http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR540022008&lang=e Amnesty International is deeply concerned by reports that eight people, including one policeman, were killed during the dispersal of a demonstration in the capital Yerevan on 1 March 2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 issues=DEMONSTRATIONS,EMERGENCY LEGISLATION,UNLAWFUL USE OF FIREARMS,USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR490042008&lang=e Prisoner of conscience, Alyaksandr Kazulin, was granted temporary leave from the prison colony in Vitebsk, Belarus, in order to attend the funeral of his wife, Iryna Kazulina, which took place on 27 February 2008 2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 issues=PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR110012008&lang=e Renato Kalemi, aged 35, who was raised in state orphanages, and reportedly suffered from tuberculosis and heart disease, died on 12 February in Vlora after living for years in conditions of misery 2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00 issues=HOUSING http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR490022008&lang=e Amnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, ex-deputy editor of a weekly independent newspaper, whom the organization believes to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for the peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of expression 2008-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 issues=FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION,JOURNALISTS,PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR210022008&lang=e Amnesty International is deeply concerned by some previsions of the legislation on preventive detention (loi relatif à la rétention de sûreté et à la déclaration d'irresponsabilité pour cause de trouble mental), adopted by parliament on 7 February 2008-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 issues=ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR490012008&lang=e Amnesty International and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee condemn the reported recent executions of Syarhey Marozaw, Ihar Danchanka and Valery Harbaty (Valerii Gorbatii) 2008-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 issues=EXECUTION http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR250012008&lang=e Amnesty International last week called on the Greek authorities to investigate human rights violations that appear to have been perpetrated by members of the Greek coast guard in the Aegean Sea 2008-02-05T00:00:00-05:00 issues=TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT,MIGRANT WORKERS,JUVENILES http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410052008&lang=e London -- Amnesty International welcomes the announcement by the Civil Guard and National Police that they are to install video surveillance cameras in detention areas where incommunicado detainees are held, in line with the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) 2008-02-05T00:00:00-05:00 issues=SURVEILLANCE,TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT,POLICE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410042008&lang=e London -- Amnesty International expresses its concern regarding the slow progress in the criminal investigation of five law enforcement officers (Mossos d'Esquadra), suspected of ill-treatment of detainees 2008-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 issues=IMPUNITY,POLICE,TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR450022008&lang=e Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the potential implications of the decision by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Saadi v UK, handed down on 29 January 2008-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 issues=ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION,LEGISLATION,REFUGEES http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080125002&lang=e The Belarusian youth activist, Zmitser Dashkevich, has been released early from Sklou prison in Belarus. Zmitser was the subject of a global Amnesty International action last year calling for his release. 2008-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=belarus http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080118001&lang=e On the eve of the first anniversary of the killing of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Amnesty International calls on the Turkish authorities to condemn all forms of intolerance and to bring all those involved in the killing to justice in accordance with international fair trial standards. 2008-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=turkey http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR620012008&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan from 1 January 2008 as a fundamental step in ending this cruel and inhumane practice worldwide 2008-01-08T00:00:00-05:00 issues= DEATH PENALTY http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410012008&lang=e London 2008-01-08T00:00:00-05:00 issues= INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES, POLICE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR550012008&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the release of five journalists in Azerbaijan, following official pardons issued by President Ilham Aliyev on 28 December 2007 2008-01-03T00:00:00-05:00 issues= JOURNALISTS, RELEASE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR440202007&lang=e On 14 December the first hearing of the retrial of persons accused in connection with the November 2005 bombing of a bookshop in the south-eastern town of Şemdinli was held 2007-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 issues= BOMB ATTACKS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR490122007&lang=e Amnesty International and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee condemn the reported recent execution of Alyaksandr Syarheychyk by the Belarusian authorities 2007-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=belarus http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR700142007&lang=e Amnesty International is concerned that the trial of Albin Kurti, leader of the non-governmental organization Vetëvendosje (Self Determination), is not being conducted in accordance with law applicable in Kosovo or international standards for fair trial 2007-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 issues= POLITICAL ACTIVISTS, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CRIMINAL CHARGES, TRIALS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR620082007&lang=e Amnesty International is urging the government of Uzbekistan to take effective action to implement in practice the recommendations of the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (CAT), which published its concluding observations and recommendations on 23 November 2007 2007-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=uzbekistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR460582007&lang=e As a second trial against former YUKOS oil company head Mikhail Khodorkovskii and his associate Platon Lebedev draws closer, Amnesty International urges the Office of the Prosecutor General to ensure their right to a fair trial in accordance with international law and standards 2007-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=russian_federation http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR650062007&lang=e Silvana, a Romani woman talking to Amnesty InternationalRomani women in Macedonia suffer double discrimination -- on the grounds of their gender and their ethnicity, according to Amnesty International. 2007-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=macedonia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR450212007&lang=e Amnesty International today calls for the coroner's inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes to be resumed without further delay, and for the inquest to be given a wide enough scope to ensure that critical information about the circumstances surrounding his death is made public. 2007-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR650072007&lang=e Amnesty International will present its report Little by little we women have learned our rights: the Macedonian government's failure to uphold the rights of Romani women and girls, focusing on the double discrimination that Romani women in Macedonia suffer on the grounds of their gender and their ethnicity. 2007-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=macedonia