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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11547
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade

Amnesty urges EU to toughen rules on advertising instruments of torture

Brussels, 09/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - In a new report highlighting the loopholes in the EU's current regulation on the trade in instruments of torture which allows the advertising or even display in trade fairs of spiked batons, thumbcuffs and spiked shields, Amnesty International urges the EU, on Monday 9 May, to tighten its legislation, revision of which is bogged down in the co-decision process between the Council and the European Parliament.

The report, which was published in...

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