Press releases in 2011

With hundreds killed, UN referral to International Criminal Court needed New European Union sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria should prompt the UN and Arab League to take tougher action...

Amnesty International today (23 May) responded to the report of the public inquiry into allegations of security force collusion in the murder of the solicitor Rosemary Nelson. Halya Gowan, who...

Authorities in Jamaica must bring to justice those responsible for the human rights violations during an operation to arrest a suspected gang leader in Tivoli Gardens last year, which resulted in the...

Amnesty International is concerned by the Iranian government’s continuing clampdown on dissent, including arbitrary arrests and the torture or other ill-treatment of people who express views opposed...

21 people publicly caned for gambling The Indonesian government must end the use of caning as a form of punishment and repeal the laws that allow it in Aceh province, Amnesty International said today...

London man Shaker Aamer held without trial at camp for over nine years Amnesty International has written to the Prime Minister David Cameron calling on him to raise the case of the Guantánamo detainee...

No more ‘easy rides’ for Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Israel The US President must use his speech on the Middle East to commit to the pursuit of a more even-handed approach to Arab states, one...

Amnesty International is calling on the Moscow authorities to overturn their ban on the city’s gay pride event, which had been set to take place on 28 May. Moscow’s Deputy Mayor told the event...

The discovery of more than 500 irregular migrants being smuggled through Mexico in squalid conditions highlights the lack of adequate protection for the thousands that travel through the country each...

Sentence passed by unfair military court Amnesty International has condemned the death sentence handed down by a Cairo military court against a 17-year-old boy, warning that unfair military trials are...