There were reports recently that "repressive governments" have substituted executions and disappearances in many cases for imprisonment, due to Amnesty International's activities.  AI can hardly mount campaigns for release of dead or "disappeared" people.

The whole concept of AI is wrong, a fact that is brought out again by the above.  AI is based on two illusions:

(1) That a country's ruling class can be shamed into becoming decent.

(2) That the ruling class of country A can be made to oppose actions of that of country B, independently of their own (and their common) class interests.

That point, and the link between (1) and (2), is that the ruling classes of both "good" and "bad" countries act for non-moral reasons, and they cannot be made to act according to moral reasons.  So, if you try to mobilize opinion against them, they, and their cohorts in other countries, will simply find less visible, but equally (if nor more) immoral means to pursue their aims -- helped all along by "good" governments.