Press releases in 2011

Amnesty International has urged members of Trinidad and Tobago’s parliament to vote against a constitutional amendment Bill which would allow executions to be resumed in the country. Under the...

Amnesty International is urging the Hungarian authorities to reverse a resolution issued by the Chief of Budapest Police on 11 February banning the Gay Pride march scheduled for 18 June 2011 as part...

‘When we got out of the vehicle our blindfolds were taken off and soldiers started beating us with whips and truncheons’ - 18-year-old student Amnesty International is urging the Egyptian military to...

Unconfirmed reports of security forces blocking ambulances and beating medics Amnesty International has condemned the Bahraini authorities' forcible eviction of a peaceful protest camp in the centre...

Amnesty International has condemned the Bahraini authorities’ forcible eviction of a peaceful protest camp in the centre of the capital Manama that reportedly left at least three and possibly as many...

Amnesty International is calling on the Libyan government to end its clampdown on peaceful political activists after violence erupted at demonstrations in the city of Benghazi following the arrest of...

Other nations and the UN should speak out against a wave of executions in Iran, the Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights organisations said today. Shirin Ebadi and the human rights...

Amnesty International is urging the authorities of Italy and the European Union to protect the human rights of thousands of migrants from Tunisia arriving on the Italian mainland and island of...

Two members of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party's (APFP) youth organisation were targeted by police last week after calling for protests against the Azerbaijani government on Facebook...

Amnesty International has condemned the heavy-handed tactics used by Bahrain’s riot police earlier today after the second death in two days of protestors calling for political reform in the Gulf state...