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...

Boiling hot days seem to be mandatory for the annual outdoor Sutton High School for Girls Human Rights Fair ( Suttonbury 2024 ). Mark and Aya from Sutton Amnesty were ideally positioned this year - partly in the shade and right next to...

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...

Sutton group member Barbara attended "An Evening With Refugee Tales " on 8 July at Holy Trinity Church, Wallington and heard personal stories from two refugees about their challenges in trying to settle in Britain. They told of their...

Our Chair attended this year’s AIUK AGM in Sheffield, on behalf of the Sutton Group (and as the newly appointed London Region Activism Representative). The AGM was a one-day event, which was originally scheduled to last for two days...