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This year, despite the difficulties we are all facing, Stratford Amnesty Group is taking part in our annual Write for Rights Campaign. Our own restrictions may even in a small way, sharpen our understanding of what if feels like to be...
My name is Richard Ratcliffe, I am the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Nazanin is a British-Iranian citizen who was convicted on a trumped-up national security related charge, after a grossly unfair trial shrouded in secrecy, was...
This month we're locked down so we've exchanged our face to face meeting with the launch of our 2020 Write for Rights campaign. Join us if you can by following the links below.
While Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe remains under strict supervision in Iran, unable to return to her family in London, she has not been forgotten. Support for her continues across the country and here in Stratford on Avon we have drawn...
We have received this request from Beverley Foulkes-Jones, AI North Africa Regional Coordinator for help in the case of Aser Mohammed, please support if you can. To find out more background about Aser's case click here Dear Friends, I...
Congratulations to our group chair Penny Freedman who memorised and recited the whole of Macbeth during lockdown and raised more than £2,000 pounds for good causes. The money will be split between Welcome Here Stratford-upon-Avon our...
Sometimes it feels as if we only hear bad news as we are all waiting for life to return to normal. We thought it would be a good idea to bring you some better news, where our work in Amnesty has born fruit. For the past several years...
Amnesty International is still here during lockdown to help people all over the world for whom the Coronavirus pandemic is causing danger and great distress? The Amnesty International UK website has lots of ideas for you to take action...
Stratford on Avon Amnesty group has been supporting Egyptian human rights worker Azza Soliman with cards sent both to her and to President Sisi. We have heard that sadly, her appeal hearing against her travel ban, listed this week, has...
HEALTH CONCERNS FOR ACTIVIST AND LAWYER On 15 April 2020, the lawyers of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah – who has been unlawfully detained since September 2019 – learnt that he is on hunger strike at Tora Maximum Security Prison 2. The...