Press releases in 2011

Amnesty International today asked the US and Pakistani authorities to clarify aspects of the operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan in which Osama bin Laden was killed. The organisation specifically...

Arrests of MPs and medics condemned The Bahraini government must end its relentless crackdown on human rights, Amnesty International said today after the country's parliament voted to extend a...

Amnesty International has received first-hand reports of torture and other ill-treatment from detainees held in Syria as a wave of arrests of anti-government protesters intensified over the weekend...

‘Hundreds of thousands of people exist with virtually no rights, treated essentially as slaves, in some of the worst circumstances we’ve documented in the last fifty years.’ Spokespeople, images, B...

Amnesty International UK has announced the shortlist for its prestigious annual Media Awards, this year celebrating its 20th year. The awards recognise excellence in human rights reporting and...

Amnesty International has announced that former Irish President Mary Robinson will give the keynote address at the organisation’s 50th anniversary conference, to be held in Belfast this weekend....

Following US President Barack Obama’s announcement today that Osama Bin Laden has been killed during a US-led operation in Pakistan, Amnesty International Senior Director for Research Claudio Cordone...

The Egyptian authorities must abolish a recent law criminalising peaceful protests and strikes, Amnesty International said ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests for International Workers’ Day in Cairo...

The Turkish government is failing to protect the rights of working people, Amnesty International said today ahead of May Day as it launched a global campaign for workers’ rights in Turkey. Amnesty...

Authorities in Bahrain must not allow the execution of four protesters sentenced to death by a military court over the killing of two police officers in anti-government demonstrations last month...