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November 2014 update: You can now sign an online petition asking for justice for Alfreda here:

The legal basis against torture has been clearly established for many decades. It stems from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 .

There has been wide media coverage of the launch of Amnesty's campaign to Stop Torture. Here is a selection of links to the many articles.

The Bloxham Group have signed up to the wordwide Amnesty campaign to Stop Torture.

If democracy and political Islam can't coexist and thrive in Ankara, is there no hope for the rest of the Middle East?

Over 240 schoolgirls are still missing, weeks after they were abducted from their school by armed militant group Boko Haram.

Our regular meeting takes place on Monday 12 May at 23 Colegrave Road, Bloxham OX15 4NT at 8pm.

Thank you to Mark Jones for an excellent talk on the current human rights situation in Turkey.

A new law on Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency greatly increases its surveillance powers while threatening journalists who expose its abuses with prison terms, Human Rights Watch said today.

Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had Twitter blocked for 14 days from 20 March to 3 April.