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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 7h
📢 Amnesty International Mexico's Norma Gonzalez & Adriana Sánchez Gómez met EU & member state officials in Brussels. On the agenda: Mexico's crisis of disappearances. 133,000+ people are disappeared or missing in Mexico, affecting the disappeared, their families & communities.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 @icegov.bsky.social must be abolished immediately. A new investigation by @amnesty-usa.bsky.social @amnesty.org documents a chilling pattern of human rights violations in the Trump administration's immigration operations.
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USA: Amnesty International Calls for ICE to Be Abolished After Documenting Widespread Human Rights Violations in Anti-Immigrant Operations
Amnesty International has documented serious human rights violations in ICE’s immigration operations and is calling for their immediate abolition.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣 @sihanetwork.bsky.social's @halayalkarib.bsky.social and @amnesty.org's Sudan team met EU and member state officials in Brussels. Their message? The war in Sudan is a war on civilians.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As EU, Latin American & Caribbean leaders meet around UNGA81, security is on everyone's mind. @amnesty.org & 13 other organizations share concerns that securitization of politics & policies is being misused to target rights defenders & civil society, and undermine the rule of law.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨New @amnesty.org briefing🚨 In eastern DRC, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have been forcing miners to work in coltan mines, often underground for over a week at a time. Minerals linked to M23 abuses are prevalent in electronic devices used worldwide.
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M23 abused DRC's miners and trafficked gold and coltan to Rwanda
The plunder by M23 and Rwanda of DRC's minerals may amount to war crime of pillage.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What does Europe stand for?🤨 Empty speech from @ec.europa.eu: Euro-centric & lacking ambition. This year's #SOTEU is more memorable for what @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu didn't say than for what she did. Amnesty's reaction on Palestine, foreign policy, intl' justice, migration & rule of law👇
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ahead of @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's #SOTEU speech, @amnesty.org & @hrw.org call for urgent EU action on Israel. She must make good on past promises to suspend the EU Israel Association Agreement & finally present a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Von der Leyen’s failures on Israel must end, starting with a settlement trade ban
This State of the European Union address must be an opportunity to make good on past promises and finally present a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨Important update ahead of the #Eplenary urgent debate on Zambia Wednesday 16/09 The Zambian authorities' decision to cancel the passports of critical voices effectively strips these individuals of their legal & social identity & traps them in a state of de facto statelessness.
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By cancelling passports, Zambian authorities are using administrative powers to silence critics
On 11 September, the Zambian authorities issued a notice cancelling passports belonging to several government critics “in the interest of national security”
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu prepares to deliver her State of the Union speech to set the EU’s priorities for the year ahead, @amnesty.org, together with 31 other organizations, is calling on the @ec.europa.eu to put anti-racism back on the EU agenda www.diasporavote.eu#/blog/6a9eb7...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Full solidarity with @enareurope.bsky.social. It's extremely worrying that their @ec.europa.eu funding was cut at a time when racism, hate speech & attacks against racialised communities are increasing across Europe. Their work is as vital as ever. Support here 👇 www.enar-eu.org/europes-larg...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New chance? No hope! EU govts' attempt to reframe deportations to 'return hubs' as a 'new chance' is deeply cynical. There is no window-dressing rights violations and deportations to places to which people have no connection. These plans should be rejected outright.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today, ministers from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands are meeting to discuss progress on plans to deport people to so-called ‘return hubs’ in countries outside Europe. In practice, these places risk becoming ‘cruel black holes’ for human rights 🧵
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amnesty Ireland & local activists sent a message to EU foreign ministers they cannot ignore. It's time for action. The EU must use all its leverage to end Israel’s violations of international law. Suspend the EU-Israel Agreement, sign our petition✍️ www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been convicted of the offence of “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs” & sentenced to 3 years in prison. No artist should face criminal punishment for creating work that challenges official narratives or encourages critical reflection on history.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sudan's conflict of over 3 years is a devastating war against civilians. Civilians have been displaced, unlawfully detained, tortured, injured and killed on a massive scale across the country. The EU must do more to protect them. 1/4
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EU/Sudan: The EU must redouble action in response to Sudan’s war on civilians – European Institutions Office
The EU must work to press all parties for an immediate ceasefire, disrupt the flow of weapons into the country, support the deployment of an independent and adequately resourced international protecti...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Italy: Disastrous offshore agreement with Albania must serve as a ‘wake-up call’ to end EU’s cruel migration plans. New @amnesty.org briefing out today finds the agreement is jeopardizing people’s safety, liberty & human rights.
Demonstrators gather outside the Albanian detention centre to protest with placards showing Ursula von der Leyen, Donald Trump, Edi Rama and Giorgia MeloniQuote card from Amnesty - “Offshore detention is ultimately aimed at deterrence and trying to shift and evade both the responsibilities of responding to people migrating and the obligation to provide asylum to those who need it. It is abundantly clear that the Italy-Albania model is impossible to implement in line with Italy’s human rights obligations."
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A new @amnesty.org investigation finds India continued supplying arms to Israel despite the risk they could be used in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. As relations deepen, together the EU, its member states & India must end all arms transfers to Israel.
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India: Continuing weapons exports to Israel could risk complicity in ongoing genocide in Gaza – new investigation
India continued to supply arms to Israel despite the substantial risk they could be used in its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said in a new re...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
On the back of the shameful meeting with the Taliban hosted by the EU Commission, @amnesty.org urges the EU and member states to immediately abandon all efforts to deport people to unsafe Afghanistan and halt their reckless, unconscionable cooperation with the Taliban on returns.
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EU/Afghanistan: Abandon Unconscionable Efforts to Deport People to Afghanistan - Letter – European Institutions Office
Amnesty International urges to immediately reverse course on European Union (EU) institutions and member states’ efforts to deport people to Afghanistan.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As the EU plans deepen its abusive migration control with Libya, notably in the east, 30 civil society organizations including @amnesty.org call on the @ec.europa.eu and EU member states to urgently change course and end this shameful cooperation.
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Thirty-one organisations call on the EU to urgently end abusive migration cooperation with Libyan authorities – European Institutions Office
31 civil society organisations call on EU institutions and member states to urgently end their shameful cooperation with Libyan authorities on migration control. Plans to strengthen cooperation with r...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Three years ago today, the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding was signed. Since then, the EU has allocated millions of euros to migration control in Tunisia despite mounting evidence of serious human rights violations associated with EU support. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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EU/Tunisia: Three years on, EU migration cooperation still fueling human rights violations in Tunisia
Three years after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen migration cooperation with Tunisia, the European Union (EU)’s unchecked support for border control in the country continues ...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As @kajakallas.bsky.social meets with African counterparts, time to act & protect civilians in Sudan ➡️Robust diplomacy, also toward external enablers like UAE ➡️Immediate ceasefire & an international protection force ➡️Disrupt arms flows & expand UN arms embargo ➡️Strengthen accountability
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European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 (@eu_eeas) on X
On 15-16 July, the HR/VP @kajakallas will travel to Ethiopia and Djibouti. Read more: https://t.co/Tuj3t3smAm
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Last week, @europarl.europa.eu adopted a resolution on Sudan calling for: ➡️Immediate ceasefire ➡️Protection of civilians, including in El-Obeid ➡️All states, including the UAE, to stop fueling the war ➡️Accountability for all perpetrators www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
EU's consistent failure to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement should spur member states to take unilateral action. Read @amnesty.org reaction to today's Foreign Affairs Council 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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EU/Israel: Bloc’s consistent failure to suspend Association Agreement should spur member states to take unilateral action
The European Commission finally presented options for restricting trade with illegal Israeli settlements, none were adopted at the Foreign Affairs Council on 13 July.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Today, @president.europarl.europa.eu condemned last month's ‘send them back’ chants in the European Parliament. But condemnation alone is not enough. "This must be a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe," says Amnesty's @dinushika.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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EU: ‘Send them back’ chants a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe
The ugly scenes of Members of the European Parliament chanting ‘send them back’ must be a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨 A new @amnesty.org report finds the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity & ethnic cleansing during its campaign to seize El Fasher in North Darfur #Sudan We call for an immediate ceasefire & urgent deployment of an international force to protect civilians.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu travels to Azerbaijan, she must raise the dire human rights situation & call for the release of rights defenders, activists & journalists, incl those linked to @abzasmedia.bsky.social, Toplum TV & Meydan TV who've been arbitrarily imprisoned abzas.info/en/2026/6/he...
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Journalists jailed in the Abzas Media case write to Ursula von der Leyen: “Do not sacrifice your values for economic interests”
Jailed journalists in the Abzas Media case have addressed an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ahead of her expected visit to Az...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
While #Turkiye ruthlessly cracks down on human rights ahead of the #NATO summit, EU leaders are in Ankara today to discuss deepening cooperation on trade, migration, and defence 🧵https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/30/newsletter-eu-turkey-relations-in-spotlight-ahead-of-nato-summit
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union comes at a critical moment for Ireland, Europe & the global multilateral system. In the midst of a polycrisis, here’s how Ireland can pull the EU back from the brink🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/recomme...
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EU: Amnesty International Recommendations to the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union - Letter – European Institutions Office
Dear Taoiseach, Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) comes at a critical moment for Ireland, Europe, and the global multilateral system. In the face of unprecedented attacks ...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sweden: European Social Rights Committee calls for an end to Sweden’s two-tier healthcare system "A major victory for the human rights of vulnerable EU migrants," says @asjohansson.bsky.social from Amnesty Sweden www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Sweden: European Social Rights Committee calls for an end to Sweden’s two-tier healthcare system
Amnesty International welcomes a landmark decision by the European Committee of Social Rights finding that Sweden breached the right to health without discrimination.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New, harrowing @amnesty.org report on DRC. Together with the wider international community, the European Union and its member states must act to protect civilians and urgently press the DRC government to immediately cease support for these abusive armed groups. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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DRC: Authorities must end support for armed group suspected of war crimes
An armed group backed by the Congolese army (FARDC) has killed and tortured civilians, looted property, and abducted women as sexual slaves in Rutshuru territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Cong...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Year after year, the #RuleofLaw Report flags the same issues, but without adequate follow-up. @amnestyeu.bsky.social and 36 civil society organisations are calling on the @ec.europa.eu to turn words into action ahead of the 2026 report 🧵👇
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
15 EU member states discussing cooperation with the Taliban on deportations to Afghanistan? In a word 👇
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As @europarl.europa.eu passes its punitive detention & deportation law, Amnesty's @oliviasundberg.bsky.social spoke to @news.abc.net.au about the hostile environment for migrants in Europe & beyond. "Return hubs cannot be human rights compliant & should be rejected." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vve...
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EU Parliament approves deportation fast-track amid anti-immigrant wave | The World | ABC NEWS
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Amnesty’s Afghanistan researcher @zasultani.bsky.social is in Brussels to meet with Belgian authorities and EU institutions, alongside @hrw.org's @fereshtaabbasi.bsky.social and @theecre.bsky.social, to highlight the grave risks and persecution that people returned to Afghanistan would face 🧵
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New @amnesty.org report on how the Cambodian government’s high-profile crackdown on scamming compounds has failed to dismantle the majority of sites in the country, protect 1000s subjected to human trafficking, torture & slavery & hold perpetrators to account. (1/3) www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Cambodia: Evidence suggests scamming compounds bypassed despite high-profile ‘crackdown’
The Cambodian government’s high-profile crackdown on scamming compounds has failed to dismantle the vast majority of sites in the country or protect and support thousands of people subjected to human ...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Members of @europarl.europa.eu travel to China soon. Before they go, @amnesty.org & 6 other orgs have urged them to insist human rights be a part of their discussions🧵 (1/4)
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EU/China: Joint public letter on human rights in China ahead of MEP visit – European Institutions Office
Dear Members of the European Parliament,   Ahead of your forthcoming visit to China, we urge you to put human rights at the centre of your engagement with your Chinese counterparts.  Our organizations...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As @europarl.europa.eu discusses human rights in Indonesia @amnesty.org has documented how the Indonesian authorities–including the military–deploy online disinformation to target journalists, activists, academics & protesters in retaliation for activism & exercising freedom of expression.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today, @press.consilium.europa.eu & @europarl.europa.eu are expected to reach an agreement on the contentious Return Regulation proposal, vastly expanding & extending the use of immigration detention and introducing draconian measures to ramp up deportations 🧵
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The EU must immediately investigate alarming reports from @en.sea-watch.org that an EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat fired live ammunition at their rescue ship on 11 May. The violent incident occurred after Sea Watch rescued some 90 people in intl' waters north of Tripoli🧵
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@amnesty.org's @sarahmcneer.bsky.social spoke in @europarl.europa.eu DROI Committee on China's new Ethnic Unity Law. This law codifies existing rights-violating law, policy and practice - threatening people’s rights in China and beyond. (1/8)
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been killed, abducted and tortured in a sustained campaign of violence by the Islamic State-linked group ADF. Many of these abuses amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Amnesty International on X: "Civilians in the eastern DRC have suffered extensive brutality at the hands of ADF fighters. They have been killed, abducted and tortured in a dehumanizing campaign of abuse. These abuses constitute war crimes which the world must not continue to ignore. As part of widespread https://t.co/G1KaXv4jpw" / X
Civilians in the eastern DRC have suffered extensive brutality at the hands of ADF fighters. They have been killed, abducted and tortured in a dehumanizing campaign of abuse. These abuses constitute war crimes which the world must not continue to ignore. As part of widespread https://t.co/G1KaXv4jpw
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In a report shared with the president today, Tanzania's Commission of Inquiry finds at least 518 people died of unnatural causes including gunshots, during & after the October 2025 elections. This should not be taken lightly. These are lives lost at the hands of security forces.
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Tanzania must make Commission of Inquiry report public
The president’s open refusal to make the report public perpetuates a state of impunity in Tanzania.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Ministers from 46 @coe.int states meet in Chișinău this May to adopt a Political Declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights & migration. @amnesty.org, @icjurists.bsky.social & @fidh-official.bsky.social warn about risks this poses to hard-won human rights & legal standards in Europe.
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Council of Europe: Chişinău political declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights - Joint letter – European Institutions Office
To the attn. of:Mr Mihai Popșoi, Chairperson of the Committee of MinistersMinisters of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Justice of Council of Europe member States Permanent Representatives to the Coun...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Is the EU finally ready to listen? 21 April could be a decisive moment to finally suspend the EU Israel trade agreement. Germany and Italy hold the key. Tell Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni to suspend the agreement NOW. Sign 👉 www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today marks 3 years of Sudan's devastating war on civilians. 3 years of sustained assault, attacks, harassment, killings. @amnesty.org and 5 other organizations urge the EU to act now to protect civilians and ensure accountability for violations. 🧵
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Sudan: The EU must act for Sudan’s civilians at three years of conflict - Joint letter – European Institutions Office
Dear President von der Leyen, As we mark three years of the devastating conflict in Sudan, our organizations once again call on the European Union (EU) and its member states to take urgent action to p...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@amnesty.org is appalled by this BBC reportage, including alarming video & photo evidence, on violent pushbacks in Greece & the reported recruitment of migrants as "mercenaries” by Greek officials to carry out these dangerous and illegal operations 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is due to be released 13 April. 3 years after being arrested w/his wife en route to @eudelchina.bsky.social If & when he walks out of prison next week, he must be allowed to resume his life & work without surveillance, intimidation & other restrictions on his rights
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China: Human rights lawyer jailed over planned EU meeting must be truly free after release
Chinese authorities must ensure that Yu Wensheng is allowed to reunite with his family in Beijing without restrictions, Amnesty International said ahead of the human rights lawyer’s expected release f...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Amnesty & 30 NGOs call on the EU to act following Israel's adoption of a death penalty law that will de facto apply exclusively to Palestinians. EU has a clear stance against the death penalty & must immediately suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. www.amnesty.eu/news/death-p...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
EU: @europarl.europa.eu greenlights punitive detention & deportation plans. The agreement – the result of a collaboration between @eppgroup.bsky.social & political groups that support anti-migration policies – was rushed w/o scrutiny or meaningful human rights assessments.
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EU: European Parliament greenlights punitive detention and deportation plans
The European Parliament votes to expand the EU’s punitive and restrictive detention and deportation plans.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today marks two years since enactment of legislation under Hong Kong’s Article 23. In the past year alone, people have been arrested, charged, even prosecuted for writing graffiti in a toilet, sharing a song on social media and creating an online petition.
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