English

News

Regional News

from Europe and central asia

Publication Date: 28 May 2012

Russia: Moscow must end ‘shameful’ clampdown on Pride

Police in the Russian capital stopped an attempted Pride and detained dozens, including the event's organizers.

Publication Date: 24 May 2012

Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

Publication Date: 22 May 2012

Azerbaijan: Eurovision is deaf to human rights abuses

Eurovision organizers have remained silent on the Azerbaijani authorities' fresh wave of human rights violations ahead of the song contest in Baku.

Publication Date: 20 May 2012

Ukraine: First-ever Kyiv pride cancelled in face of ultra-right threat

Police in Kyiv failed to stop ultra-right hooligans from putting LGBT activists at risk and marring the city's first-ever Pride parade.

Publication Date: 18 May 2012

‘Virulent’ homophobic attacks put South Caucasus activists at risk

A spate of attacks on LGBTI activists points to endemic discrimination that needs to be dealt with in South Caucasus countries.

Publication Date: 16 May 2012

Azerbaijan: Opposition activist freed as pre-Eurovision hunger strike begins

Azerbaijani prisoners of conscience have launched a hunger strike in the run-up to the Eurovision in Baku.

Publication Date: 14 May 2012

Ukraine: Authorities must start to implement police criminality law ahead of Euro 2012

Ukraine should move quickly to enforce a new law which allows for an investigative body to look into crimes by officials.

Publication Date: 14 May 2012

Azerbaijan: Police violently disperse peaceful rallies ahead of Eurovision

Just weeks before Azerbaijan hosts the Eurovision song contest, police have violently broken up two peaceful protests in the capital.

Publication Date: 09 May 2012

UK plans for secret courts 'dangerous'

Proposed legal changes could result in information and evidence of human rights violations by UK state representatives being kept secret.

Publication Date: 07 May 2012

Romania: Housing law must protect the vulnerable

Romania must safeguard the right to housing for some of the country's most marginalized groups.

Publication Date: 04 May 2012

Russia urged to reconsider anti-gay laws as activist fined

Under repressive new laws in St Petersburg, a prominent LGBTI rights activist has been fined for spreading "gay propaganda".

Publication Date: 03 May 2012

Azerbaijan: “There is no official censorship - but anyone doing real journalism is at risk.”

Azerbaijani campaigner Emin Milli tells Amnesty International how his blogs revealing government abuse landed him in jail for 16 months.

Publication Date: 01 May 2012

World Press Freedom Day: Repression in the digital era

Amnesty International hears from journalists and bloggers across the world who face abuse and even imprisonment while trying to do their job.

Publication Date: 26 April 2012

Serbia: Hundreds of families face uncertainty after Belvil eviction

Some 250 Roma families were forcibly evicted from Belgrade's Belvil settlement despite a lack of proper consultation.

Publication Date: 23 April 2012

Muslims discriminated against for demonstrating their faith

A new Amnesty International report exposes widespread discrimination against Muslims in Western Europe

Publication Date: 18 April 2012

Libyan rendition case shows it’s time for UK to come clean

A Libyan man subjected to rendition in 2004 has filed a civil claim against former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and other officials.

Publication Date: 18 April 2012

Azerbaijan: Journalists brutally attacked amid crackdown ahead of Eurovision

Just weeks before Azerbaijan's capital Baku hosts the Eurovision, journalists who tried to film illegal house demolitions were violently assaulted by police.

Publication Date: 16 April 2012

Belarus urged to free remaining prisoners of conscience after two released

Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was among two prisoners of conscience released over the weekend.

Publication Date: 05 April 2012

International Roma Day highlights discrimination against European Roma

The Roma, numbering between 10 and 12 million people, are one of Europe’s largest and most disadvantaged minorities.

Publication Date: 02 April 2012

Greece plans sweep of migrants and asylum-seekers

New government measures allow police to round up and detain irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including those suspected of carrying infectious diseases such as HIV.