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As migrant flows from Turkey to the Greek islands continue unabated, the Ministry of Citizens' Protection was expected to submit a bill to Parliament early Tuesday introducing drastic changes to the country's asylum system.

Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned Amnesty International's report on Turkey's counter-terrorism operation in northern Syria.     

Amnesty International has strongly criticised a call for Bulgaria's Prosecutor-General, Sotir Tsatsarov, to dissolve the country's biggest human rights group, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, BHC, describing it as "an unprecedented attempt to silence independent and critical voices by the authorities".

The previous leftist government bears a "huge responsibility" for the overcrowding and dire living conditions inside Greece's migrant reception centres, the head of Amnesty International's local chapter said in an interview published Thursday.

A Turkish court on Friday jailed an employee of the Orizont private high school chain in Moldova, Yasin Ozdil - who was handed over to Turkey in 2018 in a joint secret service operation - for 12 years.

Ozdil formerly headed the public relations department for a branch of the school chain in the Durlesti area, near the Moldovan capital, Chisinau.

Paul Landers and Richard Cruse of Ramstein kissed on stage in Moscow to protest Russia's attitude toward the LGBT community, Contact Music reports.

The two guitarists from a German metal band exchanged a quick kiss while performing their song "Ausländer" in the Russian capital in 2019 as a political move designed to violate the country's anti-LGBT laws.

Bulgaria's Grand Mufti's Office called on the police on Friday to investigate an attack on its office in the capital, Sofia, as a "hate crime".

The windows of the building in central Sofia were smashed with stones by an unknown person on Thursday, three days after swastikas and other hate symbols were scratched onto a mosque in the central town of Karlovo on July 2.

Amnesty International on Thursday applauded the amendment of Article 336 in the new criminal code redefining what constitutes rape after a public outcry over the previous much more lenient definition.

Justice Minister Mihalis Kalogirou announced a "legislative improvement" of a controversial definition of rape included in a reformed penal code which the government introduced in Parliament this week, following an outcry by women's groups, Amnesty International and even female SYRIZA lawmakers.

Justice Minister Mihalis Kalogirou announced a "legislative improvement" of a controversial definition of rape included in a reformed penal code which the government introduced in Parliament this week, following an outcry by women's groups, Amnesty International and even female SYRIZA lawmakers.