Amnesty International is still here during lockdown to help people all over the world for whom the Coronavirus pandemic is causing danger and great distress? The Amnesty International UK website has lots of ideas for you to take action...

Stratford on Avon Amnesty group has been supporting Egyptian human rights worker Azza Soliman with cards sent both to her and to President Sisi. We have heard that sadly, her appeal hearing against her travel ban, listed this week, has...

HEALTH CONCERNS FOR ACTIVIST AND LAWYER On 15 April 2020, the lawyers of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah – who has been unlawfully detained since September 2019 – learnt that he is on hunger strike at Tora Maximum Security Prison 2. The...

Stratford Amnesty group is pleased to learn that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her furlough from prison in Teheran extended for a further month so she will be able to continue to live with her parents. We hope this may prove a...

Please join us in taking action on behalf of Ibrahim Ezz El-Din, a detained human rights researcher currently detained in Egypt's Tora Prison where he is at particular risk if exposed to COVID-19. Ibrahim remains in pre-trial detention...

The Stratford Amnesty Group has no scheduled meetings or events in April or May. In June we will review and update our plans, so please check the website again to see what is happening over the summer and into the autumn. Meanwhile the...

Wednesday March 11th group AGM at the Friends' Meeting House 37 Maidenhead Road, Stratford on Avon. The meeting begins at 7.00 p.m. with a Business Agenda including the Chair’s and Treasurer’s Reports, and the election of officers...

Thursday February 27th 7.45 p.m. we have a group outing to see the play Trojan Horse at Warwick Arts Centre . Please book your own tickets here or phone: 024 7652 4524 “Why should I continue to be tolerant? When the world has been so...

Monday February 10th 10.00 a.m. - 12 noon Letter writing at Mansills House, Armscote, CV378DQ. Case studies, paper and envelopes provided along with a warm welcome. Please email emb@mansillshouse.co.uk if you are able to join us...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British charity worker and mum who has been unfairly jailed for nearly four years. She is being treated badly in prison, held in solitary confinement and denied vital medical care and she is missing vital...