Press releases in 2011

Reacting to the announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees accused in connection with the attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001 will be tried by a military commission rather...

Recent Israeli government calls for the UN to retract the 2009 report of its Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict are a cynical attempt to avoid accountability for war crimes and deny both...

Amnesty International and NGO Arseh Sevom have called on the Iranian Parliament to scrap a draft law which would effectively deregister all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) currently operating in...

The Chinese government is waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to stop them defending the dozens of activists and political critics rounded up by the authorities in the last...

NGOs call on Government to respond to report's findings The Government must urgently respond to calls for a thorough and transparent review of all arms export licences to the Middle East and North...

The detention of China’s most famous artist and political critic, Ai Weiwei, is a troubling development in a widening crackdown on dissent that has seen dozens of activists detained over the last few...

The Azerbaijani authorities must halt their crackdown on freedom of assembly, Amnesty International said, after a "Day of Wrath" protest on Saturday saw scores arrested and others violently dispersed...

Amnesty International strongly condemns the attack on the United Nations compound in Mazar Sharif that killed at up to 10 civilian UN staff and extends its sympathy to their families. The attack is...