Press releases in 2011

More than 2,500 child offenders serving life without parole sentences Christi Cheramie clemency application to be submitted today in Louisiana The authorities in the USA must ban the imposition of...

The Azerbaijan Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of the 20-year-old political activist Jabbar Savalan. The news was greeted with disappointment by Amnesty International, who have been...

The success of the US Secretary of State’s visit to Burma should be measured on whether the authorities respond immediately by undertaking bold and far-reaching human rights reforms, Amnesty...

Amnesty International has urged states to act on a UN report confirming that Syrian security forces committed crimes against humanity during their violent crackdown on demonstrators this year. The UN...

Declaring a baseless state of emergency targeting an ethnic minority and maintaining it in force for three and half years is illegal and discriminatory. Mario Monti’s cabinet must make things right...

An Amnesty International fact-finding team is in Egypt and available for interview. The team is in Egypt investigating human rights violations committed against protesters in demonstrations in Cairo...

On 1st December, acclaimed artist Stuart Semple will host a live-art-letter-writing event in the Amnesty Shop @ BOXPARK (Amnesty’s first retail concept store, featuring collaborations by British...

A new 75-strong set of Bob Dylan cover songs is being released in support of Amnesty International’s human rights work. Buy Chimes to Freedom from the Amnesty Shop The collection, Chimes of Freedom...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) must end the confusion over where Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi should be tried, Amnesty International has said, after the court’s prosecutor said that the Libyan...

A power-transfer agreement reportedly granting Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and others immunity from prosecution in exchange for leaving office, deals a serious blow to victims of human rights...