Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist from Russian-occupied Crimea is still being denied healthcare. She was abducted by Russian...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference This is an action from the AmnestyUSA. Johnny Johnson, a 45-year-old man long diagnosed with severe mental disabilities, including schizophrenia and...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference According to the campaigning organisation Reprieve, the UK government has contributed up to £20m to fund prisons in North East Syria where 750 people...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The Israeli offensive that took place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories last week resulted in death, injuries and devastation. Health workers...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The government has recently tabled the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill. As noted in this Guardian editorial , the...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Our action this week comes from Freedom from Torture . The government plan to house refugees on a barge 'the Bibby Stockholm' - effectively a...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The week of 19 th -25 th June is Refugee Week. As well as our own Refugee Week work (see first item below) we have been informed of various events in...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Guillermo Zarraga, a 59-year old Venezuelan engineer and former oil industry unionist, was arbitrarily detained in November 2020 at his home by...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines, have been missing since 28 April 2023, in a...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News You will remember that last year mass protests broke out in Sri Lanka as the country plunged into the worst economic crisis in post-independence history. Shortages of essential items, including...