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Our final Write for Rights event this year is this Thursday 15 Dec from 2.30 to 4.30pm at Halberton Methodist Church Hall (car park opposite church). Join us to send cards/messages in support of people under threat in different...
Our Amnesty Mid Devon Write for Rights card writing starts tomorrow morning 1 December in Willand Church Hall, from 10.30 to 12. Come and join us in signing cards for some of the human rights defenders in different countries currently...
We will be enjoying another Amnesty Walk this Sunday 22 May, starting at 2pm from Tapscott House, Culmstock EX15 3HW. The walk is 5-6 km, around and up to Culmstock Beacon, followed by refreshments at Tapscott House. Suggested donation...
Our regular monthly meeting takes place this evening, 28 April, at 7.30pm at Halberton Methodist Church. We will be welcoming Cherry Bird, Amnesty UK's South West Regional Representative, and also Amnesty UK's Country Co-ordinator for...
The Mid Devon Group was delighted to celebrate the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori at our meeting in March. We remember Morad Tahbaz and others still imprisoned unjustly in Iran.
We're delighted that Nazanin and Anoosheh are, at last, back home from Iran with their families in the UK. We remember Morad Tahbaz, still in Iran, and urge that the authorities there allow him to return home now.
Some of our members were at the Amnesty International South West Regional Conference in Exeter on Saturday 12 March. They heard speakers on campaigning by activists, and on immigration and asylum in the UK, and then gathered for a...
Azza Soliman, Egyptian human rights lawyer, had the case against her dropped in Egypt's criminal court earlier this year, together with the travel ban and assets freeze she was under. But the ban and the freeze still have to be lifted...
At this time of year, we send cards to selected individuals and groups, who are imprisoned for lack of fair justice or other reasons, where Amnesty have deemed it's safe to do so - Amnesty's Write for Rights campaign. This Thursday...
The Mid Devon Group is meeting again next Thursday 15 July at 7.30pm - still on Zoom, though we hope to meet in person in August or September! For Zoom link information contact Heather, details on website. We look forward to our...