IV Europe and Central Asia Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns in the Region, January – June 2007 Detention of asylum-seekers and non-citizens .................................................................... 61 Prisons .......................................................................................................................... 62 Discrimination .................................................................................................................... 62 IRELAND ............................................................................................................................. 62 International treaties .......................................................................................................... 62 Criminal justice .................................................................................................................. 62 Policing.............................................................................................................................. 63 The case of John Carthy (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland)............................ 63 Police complaints mechanisms (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ................... 64 Places of detention (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ....................................... 64 Residential facilities for vulnerable groups (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ....... 64 Asylum-seekers and victims of trafficking (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland)........ 64 Arms trade (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) .................................................. 65 Treatment of people with intellectual disabilities (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ........................................................................................................................................ 66 Women (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ....................................................... 66 Children (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ...................................................... 66 Renditions (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ................................................... 67 Discrimination (update to AI Index: POL 10/001/2007 – Ireland) ............................................. 67 ITALY .................................................................................................................................. 67 Counter-terrorism ............................................................................................................... 68 Rendition of Abu Omar (update to AI Index EUR 01/001/2007) ............................................ 68 Pisanu Law .................................................................................................................... 68 Expulsion of Cherif Foued Ben Fitouri ................................................................................ 68 Abdelmajid Zergout and Abdelillah El Kafloui ...................................................................... 69 Nassim Saadi ................................................................................................................. 69 Policing concerns ................................................................................................................ 69 Roma-Manchester football match ...................................................................................... 69 G8 trials (see also EUR 01/001/2007) ............................................................................... 70 Evidence disappears ....................................................................................................... 70 High ranking officials under investigation ........................................................................... 70 First sentence ................................................................................................................ 70 European Court of Human Rights: Giuliani vs. Italy ............................................................. 71 Migrants and refugees’ rights ............................................................................................... 71 International Scrutiny.......................................................................................................... 71 LATVIA................................................................................................................................ 73 Freedom of assembly for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender persons ............................... 73 Racism .............................................................................................................................. 73 International scrutiny .......................................................................................................... 74 United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ...................................... 74 LITHUANIA ......................................................................................................................... 74 Freedom of assembly for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender persons ............................... 74 Racist incidents .................................................................................................................. 75 MACEDONIA ........................................................................................................................ 75 Political Developments......................................................................................................... 75 Impunity for War Crimes [update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007]. ........................................... 75 Armed opposition groups Update to AI Index: EUR 01/012/2005 and AI Index: EUR 01/007/2006 76 Counter-terrorism (Update to AI Index: EUR 01/017/2006, EUR 01/001/2007, see also Albania entry) ............................................................................................................................... 76 Torture, ill-treatment and possible extra-judicial execution ...................................................... 76 Discrimination against minorities .......................................................................................... 77 Refugees from Kosovo [Update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007] ............................................... 77 Violence against women (Update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007) ............................................. 77 MALTA ................................................................................................................................. 78 Migrants and asylum-seekers ............................................................................................... 78 Search and rescue obligations .......................................................................................... 78 Amnesty International AI Index: EUR 01/010/2007