Press releases in 2011

Amnesty International reacted to news that Majid Movahedi, sentenced to blinding as retribution for an acid attack seven years ago in Iran, has been pardoned by his victim in exchange for compensation...

‘Parody of justice must end here’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Iran must release two US nationals held for the past two years apparently for political reasons, Amnesty International said today, ahead of a...

Freedom of Expression at heart of world’s largest arts festival Amnesty International today announced a record number of entries for its Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...

Tune into Episode 2 of Amnesty TV at amnestytv.co.uk To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the world’s biggest human rights organisation, Amnesty International UK has launched Amnesty TV, a new...

Amnesty International welcomed the release of six political activists, but called on the Malaysian authorities to free thousands of other detainees held under preventive detention laws. Socialist...

Amnesty International has said the decision by the Israeli authorities to sue residents of a Bedouin village in Israel’s Negev desert for the cost of Israeli government agencies repeatedly destroying...

The verdicts imposed against 12 people accused of killing 3 members of the Ahmadi community in Indonesia, show that religious minorities face ongoing discrimination, Amnesty International said today...

The Burundian government should immediately release two prominent lawyers jailed amid an ongoing dispute with the government, Amnesty International said today, as a national lawyers’ strike continues...

Security forces and a state-backed militia in Ivory Coast are creating a climate of fear that is preventing hundreds of thousands of people, displaced by post-election violence from returning to their...

Amnesty International today condemns the comments by Paul Evans Aidoo, Ghana’s Western Region Minister, who recently called for the arrest of all gay men and lesbians in the country. Amnesty is...