New EU regulations are too weak to prevent the trade in equipment used for torture and executions and urgent steps are required to prevent loopholes in laws from being exploited said Amnesty International in a report released today*.
European Union: Stopping the Trade in the Tools of Torture, describes how regulations introduced in 2006, fail to provide comprehensive and robust measures to ensure that companies are not able to profit by trade in this equipment.
“The European Union is the first regional body in the world to have adopted rules governing the trade in equipment used for torture and ill-treatment. However, unless the flaws in the new regulations are addressed, the torture trade is set to continue”, said Brian Wood, Amnesty International's research manager on the arms and security trade.
MORE http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR010032007
European Union: Stopping the Trade in the Tools of Torture, describes how regulations introduced in 2006, fail to provide comprehensive and robust measures to ensure that companies are not able to profit by trade in this equipment.
“The European Union is the first regional body in the world to have adopted rules governing the trade in equipment used for torture and ill-treatment. However, unless the flaws in the new regulations are addressed, the torture trade is set to continue”, said Brian Wood, Amnesty International's research manager on the arms and security trade.
MORE http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR010032007