"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...

On a wet Tuesday evening, several members from our Sutton group joined the Beckenham , Penge & West Wickham Amnesty group for a campaigning event in West Penge. We decorated several cut-out keys, which will be sent with a letter to the...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...