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EU hails the abolition of the death penalty in Washington State

On 11 October, the Supreme Court of the US State of Washington ruled to ban the death penalty, bringing the number of US States...

Sixty countries to shut down global trade in torture tools

The Alliance for Torture-Free Trade has announced plans to step up the pace of its efforts and work towards a United Nations instrument (such...

Pope against death penalty

The Vatican said on August 2 that the death penalty is “inadmissible”. It was stated in an update of Catholic believers’ most important guide...

EU court rules Romania, Lithuania knowingly hosted secret CIA jails

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on May 31 that Lithuania and Romania hosted secret CIA prisons a decade ago and their...

EU condemns the application of the death penalty in Belarus

Two new executions in Belarus, of Viktar Lyotaw and Alyaksey Mikhalenya, have reportedly taken place in secret in mid-May 2018, while the death sentences...

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Hungary grants political asylum to Polish politician, worsening relations between Warsaw and Budapest

Relations between Poland and Hungary worsened following a change...

The EU-Switzerland bilateral relationship reaches a new level

On 20 December, Ursula von der Leyen, President of...

EU will deploy Election Observation Mission to Kosovo

In response to an invitation from the President of...

Commission proposes to suspend visa-free travel for officials from Georgia

Today, the European Commission proposed suspending part of the...

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