Fortnightly action and news 25/07/2025
Manchester Amnesty Fortnightly Action and News
Please do this action and make a difference
The people of Palestine are being starved to death, or killed while trying to get food, in front of our eyes. Medical and humanitarian workers are malnourished, have no resources and are unable to do their work. For how much longer can our government fail to act? Please click the link below and send an email to the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, calling for an end to the mealy-mouthed words and demanding that serious action be taken to end the genocide. Add to or amend the email if you want, but please do send it. Also, join a demonstration, put up a poster, speak to people in the street. Don’t give up. We have to force a change.
***THIS EVENING***
MANCHESTER AMNESTY SILENT VIGIL for the people of Palestine
St Peters Square, Manchester, Friday 25th July, 5-6pm.
Please do not bring placards, banners or flags.
We will provide placards with Amnesty’s messages. Feel free to bring your friends.
This week, our vigil will be followed by a demonstration in St Peter’s Square at 6pm, organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign and others: “Stop Starving Gaza”. See below for further details.
The next bi-monthly appeal-writing drop in will take place ***TOMORROW***
Saturday, 26th July, 2-4pm, Manchester Central Library, area beside the café.
All necessary information and materials are provided. Bring your own device if you prefer to send emails. Wi-fi available. Please feel free to bring your friends, and drop in for half an hour or longer.
Other events and actions
Britain Palestine Project Webinar with Andrew Whiteley BPP chair
“Palestine/Israel: Challenging the UK Government”
Tuesday 29th July, 3pm. Register here
The first Stretford Pride will take place on
Saturday, 2nd August at Stretford Public Hall.
More info here. We will have a Manchester Amnesty stall and some of us will march in the parade. If you plan to join us, please let alison.wearden@gmail.com
Commemorate the victims of the first use of nuclear weapons
Manchester Amnesty member, Steve Roman, will lead 3 peace walks, starting in the city centre, and about 90 minutes in length in Manchester. Wheelchair accessible.
On 3rd August 2pm for Manchester Lit and Phil Society, £10, more info and book here.
On the 80th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
On 6th and 9th August for Manchester CND, £10, more information and book here.
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Manchester’s civic commemorations
Hiroshima Day at Manchester Museum at 11.30 – 12.30 on August 6th and of
Nagasaki Day in the afternoon of August 9th at 2.00 – 3.00 at Heaton Park in the Western Pleasure Grounds (by the Stables Café), St Margaret’s Road, M25 2GT.
Save the date!
The next Acoustic Amnesty will be on Thursday 28th August, 7.pm, at Band on the Wall. More details to follow, or see here
Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine and other organisations
This Friday 25th July, 6pm, all over the UK, there will be emergency demonstrations demanding an end to starvation in Gaza, including one in St Peter’s Square at 6pm immediately after our vigil. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. You are asked to bring a pot or pan to bang.
here will be emergency demonstations
Whalley Range Peace and Justice Stand with Palestine
Each Wednesday 4.30-5.30 at Brooks Bar M16 7RN
Didsbury against genocide, rally, every Wednesday, 5.30-6.30pm alternates between outside the Library and outside the Coop. 30th July outside Co-op; 6th August outside Library.
Levenshulme Peace and Justice for Palestine All out for Palestine
Each Thursday, 5-6pm, Levenshulme Village Green, junction of Stockport Rd & Chapel St
For numerous rallies, vigils, protests and actions in other locations please see GMFoP website
Good news
Mexico - On July 7, 2025, a judge completely cleared Renato Romero Camacho, an environmentalist from the state of Puebla who fights against the extraction of water and its polluted recirculation by the multinational Granias Carroll. He had been arrested on July 1 for aggravated expropriation and damage to private property following a peaceful protest held on May 29 near the plant.
Afghanistan - On July 8, 2025, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, respectively supreme leader and head of the Taliban judiciary, for the crime against humanity of gender-based persecution.
Mexico - On July 9, 2025, a judge in the state of Veracruz ordered the release of Silverio Reyes, of the native group Otomí, rejecting the prosecution's evidence based on false testimony extracted through torture. Reyes had been arrested at the end of May 2023 and wrongly accused of taking part in clashes with police forces.
Yemen - On July 15, 2025, the execution, scheduled for the next day, of Nimisha Priya, an Indian citizen who in 2017 had been found guilty of the murder of a Yemeni, was suspended. The government of India and human rights organizations had urged the suspension in view of a review of the case that could lead to the annulment of the conviction.
Israel / Occupied Palestinian Territory - On July 15, 2025, Palestinian journalist Nasser al-Lahham, former founder of the Ma'an agency and director of the al-Mayadeen portal, was released from Israel's Ofer prison, after spending nine days in administrative detention there, in harsh conditions. He was arrested on July 7 at his home in Beit Lahm, in the occupied West Bank, on undisclosed charges.
Israel - On July 16, 2025, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court rejected Israel's requests to withdraw arrest warrants against Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant and to suspend the broader ongoing investigation into alleged atrocity crimes committed by Israel itself in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Iran - On July 16, 2025, human rights defender and student activist Motahareh Gounei was released from prison on bail. She was arrested on June 14 for criticizing the government on social media. She remains accused of "spreading false news", "appearing in public without a veil" and "insulting the supreme leader". From June 23 until the time of her release she had been detained in an unknown location.
Belgium / Israel - On July 17, 2025, the Court of First Instance in Brussels ordered the authorities of the Flemish region to block the departure from the port of Antwerp of a ship containing military equipment destined for Israel and ordered the transit of all further military equipment destined for Israel.
Italy / Israel - On July 17, 2025, Rothoblaas, a multinational timber construction company present in 70 states and headquartered in Bolzano, announced the renunciation of all trade relations with Israel, defined as "a choice of conscience" dictated by the "very serious violations of human rights currently underway in the Gaza Strip and against the Palestinian people".
"Protect the protest" campaign Italy - On 18 July 2025, the judge for preliminary investigations in Bologna ordered the registration of the deputy commissioner of the police headquarters in the register of suspects for "arbitrary search and personal inspection" against an Extinction Rebellion activist who, in July 2024, after a demonstration, had been forced to undress completely in a nauseating bath and to bend her legs, allegedly to search for dangerous objects.
The next Fortnightly Action and News will be on 8th August
Manchester Amnesty issue and campaign coordinators
Anti-racism –Hazel Errey hazelerrey@gmail.com
Human Rights in the UK volunteer needed
Individuals at Risk bi-monthly drop in Liz Carter lizcarter64@yahoo.co.uk
Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians - Mike Reed mikewreed101@gmail.com
LGBTQ+ and Pride – Fynn Kawe fynnkawe@gmail.com
Press freedom and Julian Assange – Lima Al-iskalachi limazakoor@gmail.com & Danny Jones dannyj644@gmail.comsu
Prevent campaign – Tom Milnes thomashmilnes@gmail.com
Refugees - Caroline Glendinning caroline.glendinning@york.ac.uk and Alison Wearden
UAE - Kathryn Fletcher bussk@btinternet.com
Our website Manchester | Amnesty International UK [amnesty.org.uk] (managed by Alison Wearden)
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Alison Wearden
Communications Secretary
Manchester Group of Amnesty International.
Please contact me on alison.wearden@gmail.com with items for our Fortnightly Action and News, or with ideas for longer articles for the quarterly Manchester Amnesty Group Bulletin (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec).
Group email address: manchestergroup@amnesty.org.uk
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