Court designed to protect the vulnerable is respected in Europe but despised by many Tories and UK newspapers.

A review of how events in Ankara and in Strasbourg have helped to shape this year’s human rights news. http://www.humanrightseurope.org/2014/12/turkey-human-rights-2014-timel…

November 2014 update: You can now sign an online petition asking for justice for Alfreda here:

In this issue of WIre you'll meet 12 very different people and communities.

Each year we get together, and encourage as many people as possible to join us, to send messages of hope and support to individuals unjustly imprisoned in different parts of the world.

Thumb screws, spiked batons, leg irons and neck shackles.

The Amnesty Bloxham group will be sponsoring and decorating a Christmas tree at the Bloxham Christmas Tree festival.

The sun certainly shone for the groups first walk for human rights on Sunday afternoon.