The Carshalton EcoFair 2023 took place on Bank Holiday Monday, 28 August 2023, and was both very successful and enjoyable. Thank you to AnnaRita, Ayako, Bev, Clive, Marcela, Richard, Sima and Wayne for their enormous contribution and...

Ahmed Mansoor Our Chair and Secretary participated in an online meeting and video vigil on 9 August 2023 in support of Ahmed Mansoor , one of two prisoners of conscience from the UAE directly supported by Amnesty. As some of you may...

Our Chair volunteered to help run the Croydon Amnesty group's letter-writing stall at the Croydon Pride and MELA festivals on 15th and 16th of July 2023 respectively. Despite the rain on the Saturday, many letters were written, with a...

Sutton Amnesty were pleased to welcome back Ulrike Schmidt (Amnesty Regional Coordinator for Europe) who, with our own Mark Haythorne, led presentations on, respectively, persecution of the Roma community in Europe and the challenges...

Afghanistan We had a very good turnout to support Sutton Amnesty member Sultan Mahmoodi talking to us about Afghanistan. Sultan spoke movingly about his own departure with his family from Afghanistan after the Taliban took over in...

Sutton Amnesty have continued to be active on the case of dual Egyptian-British national Alaa Abdel Fattah under Barbara's lead. Barbara, together with Graham and Richard, attended a vigil in support of Alaa outside the Foreign Office...

Sutton Amnesty were alerted to the screening of a very powerful BBC documentary called "Inside the Iranian Uprising", broadcast on 29 June 2023. In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian girl, Mahsa Amini , died in police custody. She...

Our Chair attended the Amnesty International UK AGM at the AIUK Office in London on 24 June and presented a motion asking the AIUK Board to put more resource into supporting local AI groups , particularly those that are struggling...

On June 19th, Graham, Lyndon and John attended a protest at the UAE embassy and subsequently its consulate in London. A petition was handed in to support those imprisoned in the UAE including Sutton Amnesty's other Prisoner of...

Ayako, Graham, Mark and Richard ran a Sutton Amnesty letter-writing stall at Sutton High School for Girl's 'Suttonbury Rights Festival'. We had a lot of interest from pupils and staff, signing up several new members. A number of them...