Those working with and for Amnesty in Turkey have been under threat for some time, and the Amnesty Mid Devon Group has been writing to them, and in their support. We heard recently that the first Amnesty card that Gunal Kursun...

Amnesty Mid Devon is supporting a performance of Feeding the Darkness, on state-sponsored torture, at Spiceland Quaker Meeting House spicelanduffculmequakers.com , Prescott near Culmstock, on Friday 16 March at 7.30pm. All welcome...

Good news from Ethiopia - one of the prisoners of conscience that our Amnesty Mid Devon Group supports and write to, has just been released from prison. Journalist Eskinder Nega, after 7 years behind bars for publishing an article...

Freedom to Express Yourself illustrations will be exhibited at Cullompton Library from 24 April, with an official launch at 11am on Wednesday 25 April - all welcome. The illustrations are from a notebook put together by Amnesty...

Cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats, via Tiverton, Ziya Kocabiyik is highlighting human rights violations in Turkey, raising money for Amnesty International's work in that country. He will be in Tiverton on Saturday 5 May, outside...

We gathered in Cullompton Library on Wednesday for the official launch of the Freedom to Express Yourself exhibition (see earlier post), on display in Cullompton until 8 May, then in Tiverton Library till 21 May. The illustrations are...

Amnesty International Mid Devon Group members met up with Ziya Kocabiyik in Tiverton, on beautiful sunny Saturday. Ziya is cycling from Lands End to John O'Groats raising awareness of the human rights clampdown in Turkey, and raising...

To mark Refugee Week, Amnesty Mid Devon Group has organised an exhibition of extremely powerful Magnum photographs of refugees and refugee camps through the decades. The exhibition is in St Mary's Church Uffculme - the 11am morning...

Our famous annual concert is coming once more to Willand Church Hall on Friday 9 November, 7.30pm, tickets £10. See poster for details.

Journeymen Theatre are returning to Spicelands Quaker Meeting House, EX15 3AZ, this Friday 19 October, 7.30pm - And The Beat Goes On, 300 years of direct nonviolent action. Donations on the night.