Press releases in 2011

Amnesty International has today (7 March) called on the Saudi Arabian government to allow peaceful protests after the authorities confirmed a ban on all demonstrations in the Kingdom. On Saturday, The...

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An ethnic Uighur website manager who was sentenced to seven years in jail in China after a secret trial is the latest in a series of Uighur writers imprisoned for peaceful expression of cultural or...

Libyan medical teams have told Amnesty International how they came under fire from pro-Gaddafi security forces yesterday while carrying out their medical work. Two medics from the Libyan Red Crescent...

Amnesty International today (4 March) warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis in the Ivory Coast after electricity and water supplies were cut to large parts of the country earlier this week...

Pakistan’s government must ensure that the killers of Shahbaz Bhatti, the country’s minister for minorities, are brought to justice, Amnesty International said today. Bhatti, the only Christian member...

Amnesty International is urging countries neighbouring Libya to keep their borders open to migrants as fears of a humanitarian crisis grow with thousands of migrants attempting to flee unrest in the...

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to release a man sentenced by a military court yesterday to five years in prison, apparently for exercising his right to peaceful protest...

Vietnam’s clampdown on political dissent – inspired by growing fears of a Middle East style uprising there – could see a renowned human rights activist face the death penalty. Dr Nguyen Dan Que was...

Amnesty International today (1 March) released a new report detailing unlawful killings and acts of brutality by Tunisian security forces during the protests in December and January that led to the...