Held at the HRAC, the first item on the agenda was a Write for Rights event, featuring the case of Rocky Myers , who has spent nearly three decades on death row, seeking justice. His case was presented by Rocky’s lawyer, Kacey Keeton...

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 Chair attended a large Ceasefire protest in London with a group of around 70 other Amnesty activists, including from the International headquarters and some visitors from foreign AI Sections. Amnesty filmed the group prior to the...

A really interesting event our Chair attended for the very first time was a Prisoners of Conscience Bursary Awards Event, an annual conference gathering held in London. Prisoners of Conscience are a UK-based charity providing both...

Talk by Rebecca White (Amnesty Tech) We had a good turnout in anticipation of a talk from Rebecca White, a member of the 40 strong Amnesty Tech team within Amnesty's International Secretariat. We were not disappointed. Amnesty Tech's...

Three members of Sutton Amnesty attended an event at the Human Rights Action Centre which celebrated Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s book, ‘ You Have Not Yet Been Defeated ’. We had the opportunity to listen to readings from his book and to...

On 22 September, our Chair attended a screening of the excellent film “ All Static & Noise ” at Amnesty UK's office (the Human Rights Action Centre or HRAC). The film is a groundbreaking and very moving documentary about atrocities...

Our Chair, who is also the AIUK London Region Activism Representative, organised the first online London Region Amnesty meeting for quite a while on 24 September, which was attended by representatives from ten of the eleven local...

On 25 September, our Chair attended the Iranian film “ There is No Evil ”, shown at the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, with an introduction by activist and actress Elika Ashoori. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival...