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Graham and John attended a vigil for Alaa Abdel Fattah on 12 December outside the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. It was led by Mona Seif (Alaa's elder sister) and intended to put pressure on James Cleverly for an effective...
This was our first Sutton Group meeting back in the Friends Meeting House since the Covid Pandemic began. Structured on a hybrid basis we had nine attendees in person and two online. Write for Rights 2022 The meeting's focus, the Write...
A number of Sutton Group members, along with other UK Amnesty groups, are participating in a #FreeAlRoken social media campaign in support of our adopted prisoner of conscience Dr Mohammed al-Roken . Dr al-Roken should have been...
We were delighted to welcome Mark Farmaner who gave a wide-ranging and insightful talk on the situation in Myanmar based on his first hand experience. Mark is a director of the Burma Campaign UK and has visited and traveled extensively...
The World's biggest letter writing marathon will help 10 victims of human rights abuses get justice! Amnesty International has launched its flagship annual letter-writing campaign, Write for Rights to support 10 individuals around the...
Our next meeting will take place on Monday 7 November 2022 at 8.00 pm via Zoom (virtual meeting). Please email our Group Secretary if you wish to join the meeting. Our speaker will be Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK, the...
Our Chair and Secretary attended a vigil outside the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in support of the British-Egyptian human-rights defender Alaa Abdel Fattah . This was organised by Debora Singer (Amnesty UK's Egypt...
Julita introduced herself as Ops Manager for Care4Calais and described their work, providing a number of statistics and answering questions from the Group. Care4Calais works primarily in the UK and France (also in Belgium), giving...
Our Chair introduced Hamad Al-Shamsi, Executive Director of the Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center (EDAC). Hamad had been sentenced in absentia to 15 years imprisonment by the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi (UAE) on vague 'National...
The Sutton Amnesty International group ran yet another successful letter-writing stall, this time at the local Liberal Democrats conference in Carshalton Beeches. Delegates were very supportive, listened to testimonials on behalf of...