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Our Chair attended “ Words for the Silenced: A Human Rights and Poetry Event ”, organised by Exiled Writers Ink in collaboration with the Westminster and Mayfair Amnesty groups and the Regent’s University Liberal Studies Department...
Our March talk focused on Russia, a mere 17 days after the shocking death of Alexei Navalny. It is a challenge to stay positive in such circumstances, so we were fortunate to have Iona Fletcher, one of two Amnesty UK Country...
Sutton Amnesty has had a particular interest in the UAE following our adoption in 2021 of Dr Mohamed al-Roken as our 'Individual at Risk'. We were therefore very pleased to discover that Sima Watling, who we met at a protest outside...
Amnesty UK, with a representation from Sutton Amnesty, held a vigil outside the Japanese Embassy in London on October 10th, 2023, asking for the death sentence to be rescinded for the world's longest-serving death row prisoner...
On Saturday 27th January John and Anne attended an “Amnesty Surrey & Borders“ conference in Woking. The event was organised by Arianna Pisetti with the aims of bringing groups in the region together, discussing how to rejuvenate our...
Our January 2024 meeting kicked off with guest speaker Oliver Feeley-Sprague. Oliver is Amnesty International UK's Programme Director for its work on arms controls and policing. His talk covered a number of areas including Arms Control...
In December John and Graham attended a vigil including delivery of a report to the Greek Embassy on the sinking of the Adriana with the death of over 600 refugees. The report, “Seeking Asylum is a Human Right - Stop Deaths at Sea”...
Three Sutton Amnesty members turning up for this event were perhaps surprised, but again maybe shouldn't have been, to see our own Chair leading a preliminary session encouraging London Amnesty Groups to work together. The meeting...
Our group staged a very successful carol singing event in mid-December at Sutton Station, which everyone enjoyed – including the commuters, apparently! A total of 18 of us participated. Thanks should go to our allies from The Friends...
Our December meeting focused on our participation in Amnesty International's 2023 Write for Rights Campaign. In aggregate we wrote almost 70 cards to the individuals covered. Write for Rights also looks back to those people included in...