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Weekly Action and News 18/10/2024

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News

 

Please do this action and make a difference

 

Moujib al-Mikhlafi, a Yemeni education expert and trainer, has been arbitrarily detained by the Huthi de facto authorities since 10 October 2023 in Sana’a, Yemen, accused of but not yet charged with being a member of a “spy network,” an offence which carries the death penalty. He has been held incommunicado, with no access to legal representation, and has spent 3 months in solitary confinement.

 

Click the link below to read more about his case, and to send an email to Ansarallah spokesperson Mohamed Abdelsalam demanding al Mikhlafi’s immediate release.

 

TAKE ACTION

 

 

***THIS EVENING*** MANCHESTER AMNESTY SILENT VIGIL for Palestine and Israel

St Peters Square, Manchester, Friday 18th October, 5-6pm.

Please do not bring placards, banners or flags.

We will provide placards with Amnesty’s messages. Feel free to bring your friends.

 

We need a volunteer to help administer our Facebook group page.

Please let alison.wearden@gmail.com know if you are interested!

 

Amnesty North West Regional Conference, Action for Human Rights

10-4pm, Saturday, 23rd November. Registration is now open!

All welcome. Book your place here.

Action for Human Rights (wegottickets.com)

 

Non-Amnesty events and actions

 

Rethink Rebuild Society invites you to a screening of

Prayers for the Stolen (in Spanish, with English subtitles)

Wednesday 23rd October 2024, 7pm-9:30pm. Please arrive promptly.

Rethink Rebuild Society, First Floor, Discovery House, Manchester, SK4 5BH

Book your tickets (£1.79-£10.00) here

 

Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine and other organisations

 

Stop Israel’s extermination of North Gaza!

Demonstration, Saturday 19th October, 12 noon, St. Peter’s Square.

 

Whalley Range Peace and Justice Stand with Palestine

Each Wednesday 4.30-5.30 at Brooks Bar M16 7RN

Please support these events, but don’t take Amnesty banners.

 

Strings of Solidarity: An Evening of Folk Music for FALASTIN (Palestine)

Saturday, 16th November, Doors open 7pm | Programme: 7.30pm – 10pm

Friezland Church Hall, Church Road, Greenfield, OL3 7LQ

£12/£20 In aid of Saddleworth Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund. More information here.

 

Tuesday, 12th November, 7pm prompt, Klondyke Club, 1 Burnage Range, M

Palestinian Film night. 2 shorts: The Present and Gaza - One Football, One Leg. Book here

 

See news of the Leeds Palestine Film Festival, 8th November-6th December, here

 

Freedom from Torture

Manchester Quiz

Sunday 10th November, St. John’s Parish Centre, High Lane, Chorlton, M21 9EE

3.00 pm (doors open at 2.30). Teams or individuals. Entry by donation (suggested £5)

 

 

Good news

 

United States of America - On September 26, 2024, the governor of Delaware signed Act 70 officially abolishing the death penalty.

 

Japan - On October 8, 2024, the prosecution decided not to appeal against the verdict of innocence of September 26 in favour of Hamakada Iwao, who was wrongfully sentenced to hanging for a murder that took place in 1968 and who had spent over 45 years on death row.

 

UN/Saudi Arabia – On October 10, 2024, Saudi Arabia failed to secure a seat on the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote on the three-year term beginning in January 2025.

 

Iran - On October 12, 2024, the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Iranian Kurdish human rights defender and independent trade unionist Sharifeh Mohammadi, ordering a retrial. She had been sentenced to hang in June 2024 on the false charge of "armed rebellion against the state".

 

Venezuela - On 11 October 2024, the United Nations Human Rights Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission in Venezuela for two years, tasked with monitoring and reporting on serious human rights violations taking place in the country.

 

 

Manchester Amnesty issue and campaign coordinators

Anti-racism –Hazel Errey hazelerrey@gmail.com

Craftivism – Lima Al-Iskalachi limazakoor@gmail.com

Europe/ Turkey Fatih Segmen  - fsegmen@yahoo.com

Human Rights in the UK volunteer needed

Individuals at Risk (bi-monthly appeal writing drop ins and Write for Rights in Nov/Dec) – Anne Walker and Sara Baptista anne.walker9@ntlworld.com, sarabm6@gmail.com

Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians  - Mike Reed mikewreed101@gmail.com

LGBTQ+ and Pride  – Zoe Song weiyi.zoe.song@gmail.com

Press freedom and Julian Assange – Lima Al-iskalachi limazakoor@gmail.com & Danny Jones dannyj644@gmail.comsu

Refugees Whatsapp group – Alison Wearden alison.wearden@gmail.com

UAE – Kathryn Fletcher bussk@btinternet.com

 

Our website Manchester | Amnesty International UK [amnesty.org.uk] (managed by Alison Wearden)

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Alison Wearden 

Communications Secretary 

Manchester Group of Amnesty International 

alison.wearden@gmail.com 

Please contact me with items for our Weekly Action and News email, or with ideas for longer articles for the quarterly Manchester Amnesty Group Bulletin.

 

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