The authorities took decisions which increased the risk of COVID-19 infection for older people in care homes leading to preventable deaths. Refugees’ and migrants’ access to Italian territory was limited and their rights were restricted during lockdown. Co-operation with Libyan authorities on...

Proposals to send warships to police Libyan territorial waters are a shameful attempt by the Italian authorities to circumvent their duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea and to offer protection to those who need it, said Amnesty International, ahead of a vote in the Italian parliament...

Proposals to send warships to police Libyan territorial waters are a shameful attempt by the Italian authorities to circumvent their duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea and to offer protection to those who need it, said Amnesty International, ahead of a vote in the Italian parliament...

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This documents explains the alleged ill-treatment of the Italian citizen Marco Maggi and the Moroccan citizen Maati el Adnaoui by Bologna police officers.

AI is seeking information from the Italian authorities about the outcome of a complaint of ill-treatment lodged by Naser Hasani against police officers in Florence in June 1994. Naser Hasani, a Rom from former Yugoslavia, resident in a Roma camp outside Florence, lodged the complaint after...

Arsenie Cretu, a 31-year-old Romanian national, who was arrested by Milan police on the night of 25/26 May 1993, has alleged that he was beaten and ill-treated during his arrest and later at the police station. The judge of the preliminary investigation recorded his statement on 29 May 1993, and...

Mahrez Chanouf, a Tunisian national, and Salim Sfouli, an Egyptian national, both 18 years old and resident in Italy, were arrested by Milan police on 19 August 1993. There is concern at allegations of ill-treatment made by both eye-witnesses to the arrests as well as by Mahrez Chanouf and Salim...

AI is concerned about reports in the local news section of the Corriere della Sera on 27 and 28 August 1992, alleging that Umberto Colombo, aged 32 and with one or two convictions for petty crimes, was detained by railway police at Milan Central Station on 22 and 26 August and was ill-treated on...

In Italy, migrants and people seeking asylum are being unlawfully deprived of their liberty in detention centres that fall below international standards, Amnesty International said today in its new public statement, “Liberty and Dignity: Amnesty International’s observations on the administrative...