Amnesty International

Amnesty International said on Friday that it has obtained a video of Cameroonian soldiers, some armed with Serbian guns, burning structures which are likely to be homes and then killing 12 people in the village of Achigaya in the far north of the country.

A Turkish court ruled on June 21 to keep the local chair of Amnesty International in jail as his trial on terror charges continues, the group said, extending a year-long detention.

The EU on June 7 urged Turkey to provide "a fair trial, in line with European rights standards," to Amnesty International's Turkey chair Taner Kılıç, who has been in jail for the past year. 

The trial of five members of foreign non-governmental organizations accused of attempted human smuggling was under way at a court on Lesvos on Monday. 

The five are three Spanish firefighters, who came to Greece at the peak of the refugee crisis to work for the Spanish group Proem-Aid, and two members of Danish non-government organization Team Humanity. 

Human rights groups expressed concern on Wednesday at plans by Greece to continue containing asylum-seekers on its islands, calling the policy "abusive."

Greek authorities are trying to legislate curbs on migrants' movements to try to cancel out a court ruling on April 18 that individuals landing on Greek islands should no longer be held there.

Amnesty International has given Greece a scathing review in regards to its human rights record in 2017, and particularly over the country's treatment of asylum-seekers and migrants.

Amnesty International's annual report, published on Thursday, shone a light on human rights violations in all Balkan countries and pointed especially to a lack of will to deal with war crimes.

The report presented the state of human rights during 2017 in 159 countries and territories.

More than 200 European human rights organizations protest against the new laws proposed by the Hungarian Parliament aimed at limiting the work of NGOs helping refugees in the country, reports Bgnes.

Concerns are rising about conditions at reception centers for migrants on the islands of the eastern Aegean amid delays in much-needed infrastructure upgrades and increasingly cramped conditions, with reports of a spike in cases of mental health problems.

The United States said on Feb. 7 it was “deeply troubled” by Turkey’s re-arrest of the chairman of the local arm of Amnesty International, and called on its NATO ally to end its state of emergency and safeguard the rule of law.