We had a well-attended and much enjoyed dinner on 19 October. Many thanks to Heen's for accommodating us and an excellent meal.

We were very fortunate to receive a talk from Makomborero Haruzivishe ('Mako'). Mako had been a human rights and democracy campaigner in Zimbabwe since 2011 but came to the UK in 2021. He rose to prominence as Secretary General of...

Several marches were attended by members of our Sutton group, as well as Amnesty activists from the Anti-Racist Network, the Feminist Network and other London Region groups. The biggest turnout of Amnesty members was for the 11...

Two of our Sutton Amnesty members attended Croydon Amnesty's Lindy Hop dance on November 25th. This was great fun! A professional dance couple took everyone through some basic "moves" for the first hour, making sure that after each...

Our December meeting focused on our participation in Amnesty International's 2023 Write for Rights Campaign. In aggregate we wrote almost 70 cards to the individuals covered. Write for Rights also looks back to those people included in...

Our group staged a very successful carol singing event in mid-December at Sutton Station, which everyone enjoyed – including the commuters, apparently! A total of 18 of us participated. Thanks should go to our allies from The Friends...

In December John and Graham attended a vigil including delivery of a report to the Greek Embassy on the sinking of the Adriana with the death of over 600 refugees. The report, “Seeking Asylum is a Human Right - Stop Deaths at Sea”...

On Saturday 27th January John and Anne attended an “Amnesty Surrey & Borders“ conference in Woking. The event was organised by Arianna Pisetti with the aims of bringing groups in the region together, discussing how to rejuvenate our...

Amnesty UK, with a representation from Sutton Amnesty, held a vigil outside the Japanese Embassy in London on October 10th, 2023, asking for the death sentence to be rescinded for the world's longest-serving death row prisoner...

Sutton Amnesty has had a particular interest in the UAE following our adoption in 2021 of Dr Mohamed al-Roken as our 'Individual at Risk'. We were therefore very pleased to discover that Sima Watling, who we met at a protest outside...