Press releases in 2011

US judge orders execution between 21-28 September Amnesty International has urged the Board of Pardons and Parole in the US state of Georgia to grant clemency to death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis...

Amnesty International welcomed the concern expressed by Nick Hardwick, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, today, over the way people being forcibly returned to other countries are treated during removal...

Pacific leaders meeting in Auckland on Tuesday must take urgent steps to eradicate endemic violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in the region, Amnesty...

More than a year after the launch of the country’s “Free Health Care Initiative”, pregnant Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls in Sierra Leone continue to face serious...

Deeply unfair system is just being given a ‘cheap make-over’ - Tim Hancock Amnesty International has strongly criticised government plans to introduce new anti-terrorism legislation, saying they will...

In a statement released this afternoon, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), called on the UK government to suspend the planned eviction of Dale Farm residents and to...

* 29 left to die in two shipping containers in 40-degree heat, only 10 survived Pro al-Gaddafi left 29 detainees to suffocate while locked inside metal containers in the sweltering June heat in north...

Amnesty International today welcomed the Royal Bank of Scotland’s announcement that it will stop investing in companies which produce cluster bombs. The bank also announced its commitment to work with...

Amnesty delegates photographed by secret service and expelled from country Two Ethiopian opposition leaders have been arrested after meeting an Amnesty International delegation, which was afterwards...

Black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans particularly at risk People suspected of having fought for Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, in particular black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans, are at high risk of...