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2 Jun 2015

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ekklesia.com

Amnesty Intl. calls on EU to close loopholes allowing trade of torture equipment

Companies based in the European Union are still marketing and trading in a range of security equipment which can be used to torture and ill-treat people, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation warn in a new report...Such activities continue because of loopholes in the decade-old European regulation aimed at restricting the trade in these goods, said Amnesty and Omega...This latest report by Amnesty and Omega is intended to feed into a debate due to begin at the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade and the Subcommittee on Human Rights on 28 May. Proposed amendments to the EU Torture Regulation resulting from this debate will be voted on in Committee in July and will eventually go to a plenary vote at the European Parliament in September.