Sutton

Our Secretary attended the exhibition ' Surviving Evin Prison ' given by Anoosheh Ashoori and Amnesty International in Hoxton Arches. Both Anoosheh and Sena from the Amnesty team were present as hosts. The exhibition covered Anoosheh's...

“It was brutally senseless. There’s no limit to what the government can do. It’s beyond the worst imagination“ Zhou Fengsuo, Tiananmen Square survivor and student protest leader. This week marked the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen...

We were extremely fortunate to have a talk from Sutton Amnesty member James Baird, who is also the Amnesty UK Country Coordinator for Venezuela. James mentioned significant issues as being an economic crisis including phenomenal levels...

At our April meeting John, Lyndon and Anne from the Sutton Amnesty group gave a presentation about their work with the charity, Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton, (RMNS). RMNS has been in existence for an impressive 34 years in Sutton...

The second iftar attended by our Chair was hosted by the Watford group, who themselves are in the process of reforming and rebuilding. Attendance was around 40+. The friendly atmosphere and positivity at this and the Mile End iftar was...

Our chair has been busy, attending two Amnesty Iftars in April. The first was a flagship iftar held in Mile End, supported by AIUK staff, with over 200 in attendance. Iftar is the name of the meal eaten by Muslims at sunset to break...

Our Chair attended an online webinar run by AIUK and Peace Brigades International UK, which featured the human rights defender Bernardo Caal Xol from Guatemala. Bernardo is a 50-year-old indigenous teacher, trade unionist and defender...

Several members of the Sutton Amnesty group attended a screening of the harrowing, but Oscar winning, documentary '20 Days in Mariupol'. It was good to support our Croydon Amnesty colleagues who had a table at the cinema's entrance and...

On Saturday 23 March, three members of Sutton Amnesty joined a protest outside the old Wilko store in Sutton organised by the Hong Kong Culture and Arts Society. The aim was to draw attention to the recently introduced Article 23 of...