We were delighted to welcome Mark Farmaner who gave a wide-ranging and insightful talk on the situation in Myanmar based on his first hand experience. Mark is a director of the Burma Campaign UK and has visited and traveled extensively...

A number of Sutton Group members, along with other UK Amnesty groups, are participating in a #FreeAlRoken social media campaign in support of our adopted prisoner of conscience Dr Mohammed al-Roken . Dr al-Roken should have been...

This was our first Sutton Group meeting back in the Friends Meeting House since the Covid Pandemic began. Structured on a hybrid basis we had nine attendees in person and two online. Write for Rights 2022 The meeting's focus, the Write...

Graham and John attended a vigil for Alaa Abdel Fattah on 12 December outside the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. It was led by Mona Seif (Alaa's elder sister) and intended to put pressure on James Cleverly for an effective...

In our first meeting of 2023 we had the privilege to hear Mona Seif, sister of the Group's adopted prisoner of conscience Alaa Abdel Fattah , speaking about her campaign and the state of human rights in Egypt. The zoom meeting was well...

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a well-known writer, political activist and government critic, has been repeatedly arrested in recent years, including for his role in the 25 January Revolution of 2011, which led to the toppling of then president...

At the February meeting we were pleased to welcome Ali Abdulemam. Ali is a prominent Bahraini Human Rights Activist who was convicted in absentia for plotting to overthrow the Government, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 2013...

We meet on the 1st Monday* (2nd if the 1st is a bank holiday) of each month, except August, from 7.30pm-9.30pm. We meet in the Library of the Friends Meeting House, 10 Cedar Road, Sutton SM2 5DA, just a few minutes walk from Sutton...

Our online Sutton Amnesty meeting in May dealt with Iran. It was attended by 37 Amnesty supporters including representation from Sutton Amnesty and 6 other groups. Our chair had assembled a cast of three excellent speakers who each...

March of 1998 saw a major event in the history of the group. In conjunction with Sutton Council a plaque was unveiled close to Peacocks in Sutton High Street by the Mayor of Sutton, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United...