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...

"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...

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...

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...

Nabila Hanson (Amnesty UK regional coordinator for China and East Asia and Country coordinator for China and Taiwan) and Howard Zhang (seasoned China watcher with long spells at both the BBC World Service and as BBC News Chinese Editor...

Our online meeting heard an excellent presentation on Guatemala from Pauline Uyterwijk-Crosfield, Amnesty UK country coordinator for Guatemala and Nicaragua. Background: Guatemala has a population of about 17.25 million of whom 41% are...

Our January 2024 meeting kicked off with guest speaker Oliver Feeley-Sprague. Oliver is Amnesty International UK's Programme Director for its work on arms controls and policing. His talk covered a number of areas including Arms Control...

We were extremely fortunate to have a talk from Sutton Amnesty member James Baird, who is also the Amnesty UK Country Coordinator for Venezuela. James mentioned significant issues as being an economic crisis including phenomenal levels...

Our March talk focused on Russia, a mere 17 days after the shocking death of Alexei Navalny. It is a challenge to stay positive in such circumstances, so we were fortunate to have Iona Fletcher, one of two Amnesty UK Country...

At our April meeting John, Lyndon and Anne from the Sutton Amnesty group gave a presentation about their work with the charity, Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton, (RMNS). RMNS has been in existence for an impressive 34 years in Sutton...