This report highlights Amnesty International’s concerns about official repression of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and the failure to hold perpetrators of human rights violations committed against political activists, journalists and civil society activists to account. The report focuses on the general clampdown on the right to freedom of expression, in particular press freedom, between 2007 and 2011, and official intolerance of peaceful protests in the wake of public protests regarding rising costs of living in April and May 2011.