Sutton

Lawyer Chow Hang-tung was charged in 2020 for participating in a peaceful vigil commemorating protesters killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and charged again in 2021 after she asked people on social media to light candles in...

Three members of Sutton Amnesty attended an event at the Human Rights Action Centre which celebrated Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s book, ‘ You Have Not Yet Been Defeated ’. We had the opportunity to listen to readings from his book and to...

Talk by Rebecca White (Amnesty Tech) We had a good turnout in anticipation of a talk from Rebecca White, a member of the 40 strong Amnesty Tech team within Amnesty's International Secretariat. We were not disappointed. Amnesty Tech's...

Our Chair attended a large Ceasefire protest in London with a group of around 70 other Amnesty activists, including from the International headquarters and some visitors from foreign AI Sections. Amnesty filmed the group prior to the...

On 25 September, our Chair attended the Iranian film “ There is No Evil ”, shown at the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, with an introduction by activist and actress Elika Ashoori. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival...

Our Chair, who is also the AIUK London Region Activism Representative, organised the first online London Region Amnesty meeting for quite a while on 24 September, which was attended by representatives from ten of the eleven local...

On 22 September, our Chair attended a screening of the excellent film “ All Static & Noise ” at Amnesty UK's office (the Human Rights Action Centre or HRAC). The film is a groundbreaking and very moving documentary about atrocities...

A really interesting event our Chair attended for the very first time was a Prisoners of Conscience Bursary Awards Event, an annual conference gathering held in London. Prisoners of Conscience are a UK-based charity providing both...

Our Chair attended a protest at 10 Downing Street commemorating the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. Mahsa died in police custody on 16 September 2022 after being detained for not wearing a head scarf correctly...

Several Sutton Amnesty members attended the film ”She’s in Jail”, a very powerful account documenting the incarceration of Hang-Tung Chow , a prominent political activist, in Hong Kong. Members may recall Hang-Tung was one of the Write...