Ethiopia has been criticized by the international community for its human rights record. In August Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] urged the government to release [JURIST report] 17 prominent Muslim leaders who were arrested in July in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, arguing that the Ethiopian government has used its anti-terrorism law [Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009, text] as a tool to crack down on dissent, particularly dissent amongst the nation's Muslims, who constitute 30 percent of Ethiopia's population. In July UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] expressed concern that Ethiopia is intimidating journalists [JURIST report]. Earlier that month Amnesty International [advocacy website] criticized [JURIST report] the imprisonment of 20 activists in Ethiopia under the nation's anti-terrorism law. In June the Ethiopian Federal High Court [official website, in Amharic] convicted [JURIST report] 24 journalists, political opposition leaders and others under the anti-terrorism law.