Press releases in 2011

Belfast schoolgirl Natasha Kelly has collected the runner-up award in Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year competition. The UK-wide competition reached its climax recently...

It has been 22 years since the People’s Liberation Army fired on peaceful protesters in Beijing and other cities, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of students and other ordinary people who had...

The Burmese authorities must stop forcing prisoners into cells designed for military dogs, Amnesty International said today, after it emerged that the practice is being used as punishment against...

In a new briefing today, Amnesty International said that serious human rights violations continue to be committed in Bahrain. These include: Arrests Following the declaration of the state of emergency...

Two Amnesty International expert researchers have recently returned to London from Libya and are available for interview. Donatella Rovera is Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Adviser and...

Amnesty International has called on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to fully implement a “general amnesty” by immediately freeing all prisoners of conscience, including those detained because of...

Video material and pics available - see notes to editors for details Amnesty International has warned that thousands of families in the Indian state of Orissa are facing serious health risks during...

Amnesty International has criticised today’s decision by the Dáil to instruct the Smithwick Tribunal to provide an interim report to the Dáil by 30 June and to complete its work by 30 November. The...