Press releases in 2011

* 29 left to die in two shipping containers in 40-degree heat, only 10 survived Pro al-Gaddafi left 29 detainees to suffocate while locked inside metal containers in the sweltering June heat in north...

Amnesty International today welcomed the Royal Bank of Scotland’s announcement that it will stop investing in companies which produce cluster bombs. The bank also announced its commitment to work with...

Amnesty delegates photographed by secret service and expelled from country Two Ethiopian opposition leaders have been arrested after meeting an Amnesty International delegation, which was afterwards...

Black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans particularly at risk People suspected of having fought for Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, in particular black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans, are at high risk of...

At least 88 people are believed to have died in detention in Syria during five months of bloody repression of the country’s pro-reform protests, a new Amnesty International report reveals today. The...

The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are indiscriminately bombing civilian areas in the Nuba Mountains region of Southern Kordofan and preventing aid from reaching desperate displaced people, Amnesty...

Amnesty International has uncovered evidence that forces loyal to Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi have killed numerous detainees being held at two military camps in Tripoli on 23 and 24 August. Eyewitness...

London, 26th August 2011: In the fourth episode of Amnesty TV, which goes live today, comedians take time out at Edinburgh Festival to bring viewers exclusive material about the big human rights...

More than 10,000 people across the UK have directly emailed the Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in just over a week demanding that RBS stops investing in companies that produce...

The arrest of a former senior Russian police official in connection with the murder of journalist and human rights defender Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 is a major step forward, Amnesty International...