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...

The Human Rights Crisis in Egypt: what can we do? Hugh Sandeman, Amnesty International UK's Egypt liaison person, will be speaking on this topic on Thursday 3 May at 7.30pm at Halberton Methodist Church, at a meeting organised by...

The Spiceland Quaker Meeting House was full on the evening of Friday 16 March for a harrowing performance of Feeding the Darkness, brilliantly performed by Dave and Lynn Morris of Journeymen Theatre. This series of 'sketches' vividly...

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...

Two of our members attended a meeting in Budleigh Salterton on the work of EAPPI. This is their report: THE WORK OF THE EAPPI, organised by East Devon Justice for Palestine NOTES FROM A TALK HELD AT TEMPLE STREET METHODIST CHURCH...

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...

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...

Our Amnesty International Mid Devon Group continues to meet on the first Thursday of the month, at Halberton Methodist Church, at 7.30pm. We also have a stand at the Uffculme Farmers Market, selling books and raising awareness, on the...

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...