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The tenets of a democratic society are increasingly under pressure. Since the election of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, Ukraine has experienced a significant and...

Hundreds reported dead in bloody crackdown. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has called on the Libyan authorities to stop using violence on peaceful...

Commission president says meeting was 'frank and open'. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso today met Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, for...

Ashton, Füle call for restraint after food riots leave a dozen dead. Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, and Štefan Füle, the European commissioner for...

EU sanctions hurt ordinary businesses in Burma. You wrote last week that, following the release from house arrest of the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, EU...

The constitutional turmoil in Ukraine is a disaster for the country and should be a major concern for the European Union. Most Europeans, it is fair to assume, view a...

A proposal for a symbolic act in support freedom of expression and human rights in Iran. February is almost upon us and in Iran that means there is the prospect of more...

International observers say “most” international commitments were met in the first round of presidential election. International observers have given a positive...

The rise of citizen journalism puts a fresh onus on the mainstream media to re-consider how they protect freedom of expression. In some circles, political activists have...

Days after the EU lifted travel sanctions, Germany holds talks with security chief implicated in Andijan killings and Uzbekistan jails another human-rights defender....

The EU's policy toward Uzbekistan was once hailed; it is now an example of unprincipled policy-making at its worst. Attempting to ignore its own policy on Uzbekistan is...

The European Union was brave, precise and unequivocal when it imposed sanctions on Uzbek officials directly involved in the Andijan massacre of May 2005. In November 2006 the...

How do you deal with an authoritarian regime that not only has one of the most appalling human rights records on earth, but also threatens to spark violent upheaval...

Uzbekistan Interior Minister Zakirjon Almatov is currently on an extended visit to Germany. Nothing strange or particularly newsworthy about that, you might think - until you...

The urban riots in France made for uncomfortable television viewing: watching a familiar society devolve into violence is a bit like standing on the sidelines of a seriously...

THREE anti-globalization protestors, who were arrested at the Thessaloniki summit and have been in jail since, should be freed immediately, it was claimed this week. Graphic...

CIVIL liberties organisation Statewatch claims that a German government proposal to create special EU riot units will result in peaceful protestors being treated as...

Gareth Harding FOR once, last Friday's extraordinary European Council meeting really was extraordinary. To begin with, the whole thing was organised in four days flat, which...

THE EU'S proposals for clamping down on violent political protests are illegal and will criminalise peaceful demonstrators, according to a leading civil liberties group....

NOW that we're nearly done with the latest round of navel-gazing that inevitably follows the made-for-TV glad-handing and head-bashing of world summitry, it's time to...