Europe and Central Asia Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns in the Region, January-June 2007 III Evictions (update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007).................................................................... 41 Hate speech ................................................................................................................... 41 Forced sterilization of women (update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007)...................................... 42 Fair trial concerns and allegations of torture and ill-treatment .................................................. 42 Case of Yekta Uzunoglu ................................................................................................... 42 Trafficking and migrants ...................................................................................................... 43 ESTONIA ............................................................................................................................. 43 Minority rights .................................................................................................................... 43 Racism .............................................................................................................................. 43 FRANCE ............................................................................................................................... 43 Right to housing ................................................................................................................. 43 Counter-terrorism ............................................................................................................... 44 Trial of former Guantánamo detainees (update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007) ..................... 44 Extradition and death penalty............................................................................................... 45 Discrimination .................................................................................................................... 45 Policing concerns ................................................................................................................ 46 Asylum .............................................................................................................................. 47 The case of Houssine Tarkhani ......................................................................................... 47 The case of Adel Tebourski: update to AI Index: EUR 21/006/2006 ...................................... 48 The case of Asebeha Gebremedhin: decision of the European Court of Human Rights.............. 49 Immigration ....................................................................................................................... 49 GEORGIA ............................................................................................................................. 49 Torture, Ill-Treatment, Excessive use of force and Impunity ..................................................... 49 OPCAT .......................................................................................................................... 49 Identification tags for police (update to AI Index: EUR 56/001/2005) ................................... 50 European Court of Human Rights rules on October 1999 attack on Jehovah’s Witnesses (update to AI Indexes: EUR 01/004/2000 and EUR 01/002/2005) .................................................... 51 The case of Sandro Girgvliani (update to AI Index: EUR 56/002/2007) ................................. 51 Investigation into allegations of excessive force used by special forces to put down March 2006 prison disturbance (update to AI Index: EUR 01/017/2006) ................................................. 52 Allegations of excessive use of force by police against demonstrators on 26 May 2007 ............ 52 Fair trial concerns ............................................................................................................... 53 The case of Irakli Batiashvili (update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007) ................................... 53 Alleged coup plotters ...................................................................................................... 54 Domestic Violence............................................................................................................... 54 Failure to approve long overdue Action Plan on Measures to Prevent and Combat Domestic Violence long overdue (update to AI Index: EUR 56/009/2006) ............................................ 54 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ............................................................... 55 The internationally unrecognized territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia ................................ 55 Death penalty ................................................................................................................ 55 Alan Parastaev allegedly ill-treated in detention in South Ossetia ......................................... 56 GREECE ............................................................................................................................... 56 Police ill-treatment .............................................................................................................. 56 Conditions of detention ........................................................................................................ 57 Deaths in custody ............................................................................................................... 57 Trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation ................................................................. 58 Denial of refugee protection ................................................................................................. 58 Harassment of human rights defender ................................................................................... 58 Conscientious objection to military service ............................................................................. 59 Domestic violence (update to AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007) ..................................................... 59 HUNGARY ............................................................................................................................ 59 Violence against women ...................................................................................................... 59 Rape and sexual violence in the home ............................................................................... 59 Police excessive use of force and ill-treatment ........................................................................ 60 Update on the Case of Ángel Mendoza (see AI Index: EUR 01/001/2007) .............................. 61 Conditions of detention ........................................................................................................ 61 Amnesty International AI Index: EUR 01/010/2007