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Two of our Sutton Amnesty members attended Croydon Amnesty's Lindy Hop dance on November 25th. This was great fun! A professional dance couple took everyone through some basic "moves" for the first hour, making sure that after each...
Several marches were attended by members of our Sutton group, as well as Amnesty activists from the Anti-Racist Network, the Feminist Network and other London Region groups. The biggest turnout of Amnesty members was for the 11...
We were very fortunate to receive a talk from Makomborero Haruzivishe ('Mako'). Mako had been a human rights and democracy campaigner in Zimbabwe since 2011 but came to the UK in 2021. He rose to prominence as Secretary General of...
We had a well-attended and much enjoyed dinner on 19 October. Many thanks to Heen's for accommodating us and an excellent meal.
Our online meeting heard an excellent presentation on Guatemala from Pauline Uyterwijk-Crosfield, Amnesty UK country coordinator for Guatemala and Nicaragua. Background: Guatemala has a population of about 17.25 million of whom 41% are...
Nabila Hanson (Amnesty UK regional coordinator for China and East Asia and Country coordinator for China and Taiwan) and Howard Zhang (seasoned China watcher with long spells at both the BBC World Service and as BBC News Chinese Editor...
The Carshalton EcoFair 2023 took place on Bank Holiday Monday, 28 August 2023, and was both very successful and enjoyable. Thank you to AnnaRita, Ayako, Bev, Clive, Marcela, Richard, Sima and Wayne for their enormous contribution and...
Ahmed Mansoor Our Chair and Secretary participated in an online meeting and video vigil on 9 August 2023 in support of Ahmed Mansoor , one of two prisoners of conscience from the UAE directly supported by Amnesty. As some of you may...
Our Chair volunteered to help run the Croydon Amnesty group's letter-writing stall at the Croydon Pride and MELA festivals on 15th and 16th of July 2023 respectively. Despite the rain on the Saturday, many letters were written, with a...
Sutton Amnesty were pleased to welcome back Ulrike Schmidt (Amnesty Regional Coordinator for Europe) who, with our own Mark Haythorne, led presentations on, respectively, persecution of the Roma community in Europe and the challenges...