Banbury

Many thanks to everyone who supported or helped in any way with our Garden Party this afternoon. Together we raised £501, which is a great result.

We took action on the 2nd anniversary of the appalling attack on Hakan Yaman demanding justice. We held cards which read

The legendary Bloxham group's Annual Garden Party will be held on Saturday 11 July 2.30-4.30 in David and Jill Puckering's beautiful garden.

If Prime Minister Thatcher had had the thin skin of Turkey’s President Erdoğan, political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe would have been in and out of prison.

It has been a ghastly year for the media, as we look back on World Press Freedom Day.

Our May meeting will be on Monday 11 May at 8pm at 23 Colegrave Road, Bloxham OX15 4NT .

Syrian conflict

From http://www.humanrightseurope.org

Journalists are being intimidated and imprisoned, while government-friendly moguls are given lucrative contracts. The free media is on the verge of extinction.

This week in our weekly round up of human rights news from around the world: chemical weapons used in Syria and Iraq, Missouri execute mentally ill man, Pakistan give stay of execution to child-off