Press releases in 2011

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights amongst those attacked Amnesty International has condemned the Syrian authorities’ crackdown on protests in the country...

Roma communities in Slovenia are being denied proper access to adequate housing, water and sanitation due to discrimination, according to a new report today (16 March) from Amnesty International. Some...

Authorities in Cuba are continuing to stifle freedom of expression in spite of the much-publicised recent wave of releases of prominent dissidents, reported Amnesty International today on the eighth...

Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq to immediately release a man who faces trial on fabricated terrorism charges this week after being...

Amnesty International has urged the Yemeni authorities to identify and prosecute members of the security forces responsible for the killings of at least eight anti-government demonstrators over the...

Amnesty International has condemned the recent killing of a settler family in the West Banks and also called on Israel to halt a continuing wave of reprisal attacks by West Bank settlers against...

Need for thorough Gibson torture inquiry ‘underlined’ Responding to the reported comments of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf’s that there may have been “tacit approval” by the UK...

Rory Fenton, a 20-year-old Belfast student, was shortlisted today for the inaugural Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Rory, who is a third-year Physics student from Imperial College of...

Amnesty International has called on the Saudi Arabian authorities to reverse the ban on peaceful protest in the Kingdom, amid fears of a violent crackdown on mass demonstrations planned for today's...

Malaysia should immediately halt the judicial caning of refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said, after the government disclosed that almost 30,000 foreigners had been caned in five years. In...