Our next meeting will take place on Monday 6 February 2023, 20.00 – 22.00 at the Friends Meeting House, 10 Cedar Road, Sutton SM2 5DA, just a few minutes walk from Sutton station. This is a hybrid meeting, so people can join the...

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...

Our next meeting will take place on Monday 9 January 2023 at 8.00 pm via Zoom (virtual meeting). Please email our Group Secretary if you wish to join the meeting. In our first meeting of 2023 we are delighted to welcome Mona Seif...

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...

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...

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...