Our chair has been busy, attending two Amnesty Iftars in April. The first was a flagship iftar held in Mile End, supported by AIUK staff, with over 200 in attendance. Iftar is the name of the meal eaten by Muslims at sunset to break...

Our Chair attended an online webinar run by AIUK and Peace Brigades International UK, which featured the human rights defender Bernardo Caal Xol from Guatemala. Bernardo is a 50-year-old indigenous teacher, trade unionist and defender...

Several members of the Sutton Amnesty group attended a screening of the harrowing, but Oscar winning, documentary '20 Days in Mariupol'. It was good to support our Croydon Amnesty colleagues who had a table at the cinema's entrance and...

On Saturday 23 March, three members of Sutton Amnesty joined a protest outside the old Wilko store in Sutton organised by the Hong Kong Culture and Arts Society. The aim was to draw attention to the recently introduced Article 23 of...

Our Chair attended “ Words for the Silenced: A Human Rights and Poetry Event ”, organised by Exiled Writers Ink in collaboration with the Westminster and Mayfair Amnesty groups and the Regent’s University Liberal Studies Department...

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...

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held a vigil outside the Japanese Embassy in London on October 10th, 2023, asking for the death sentence to be rescinded for the world's longest-serving death row prisoner...

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...

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”...