There have been significant developments on various cases Sutton Amnesty have been working on, including as follows: Dr Mohamed al-Roken (UAE) One of Sutton Amnesty's two prisoners of conscience Dr Mohammed al-Roken had already been...

Our Amnesty stall at the fair this year was well placed allowing customer access from two sides and situated between the Lib Dems and a busy CND bookstall. Anne provided a carnival feel to our stall with colourful bunting and Graham...

Our Chair attended a protest at 10 Downing Street commemorating the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. Mahsa died in police custody on 16 September 2022 after being detained for not wearing a head scarf correctly...

Several Sutton Amnesty members attended the film ”She’s in Jail”, a very powerful account documenting the incarceration of Hang-Tung Chow , a prominent political activist, in Hong Kong. Members may recall Hang-Tung was one of the Write...

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...

Our Chair updated us on Dr Mohammed al-Roken's case and his shocking life imprisonment sentence. Ahmed Mansoor , on whose case Amnesty has also worked, received a sentence of 15 years' imprisonment. They are just two of many included...

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...