Sutton Amnesty received very positive feedback from the Gatwick Detainees Charity in response to our clothing collection. Special thanks go to Muhammed for liaising with the Sutton Dialogue Society which provided an amazing amount of...

Chris Ramsey is Amnesty UK's Country Coordinator and has a long track record of Amnesty leadership and campaigning. He outlined the current human rights difficulties including the suppression of dissent, restriction on freedoms of...

On the evening of the Carshalton EcoFair, Anne provided eleven of us with a wonderful spread which we enjoyed in her garden. We were fortunate to be joined by Bahman, who played an active part in Sutton Amnesty for 40 years and is full...

"You could call it a place where time stands still. People are tortured by time...you feel like a boy forgotten in a park on a Ferris wheel." (Imprisoned film director, author and poet, Ihnat Sidorchyk) Sutton Amnesty attended a very...

Sutton Amnesty’s letter-writing stall at the Manor Park Fete turned out to be yet another success story. Despite a short interruption for rain, the public signed a total of 122 letters as follows: 33 letters on the case of journalist...

Our Chair and Secretary attended a picnic organised by the Sutton Dialogue Society in the Shiraz Mirza Community Hall in New Malden, thanks to an invitation from new Amnesty member Muhammed. Families were mainly from the Turkish...

By some accident our Sutton group Secretary managed to be one of about fifty 'activists and supporters' who were invited and then attended 'An Evening with Amnesty International' at their London office, the Human Rights Action Centre...

"In prison you count down the number of days, in a detention centre you count up” At our July meeting we were very pleased to welcome Mary Barrett who talked about her volunteer work with the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group , (GDWG)...

This was the first attendance of Sutton Amnesty at the Banstead Rotary Fair (the opportunity having been identified as part of our recent 'Community Mapping' exercise). It was a relatively small event but we nevertheless managed to get...