Manchester

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Members will be aware that the journalist and Wiki-leaks founder, Julian Assange, has been in Belmarsh Prison for the past four years, awaiting...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference As we approach Manchester Pride, it is worth reminding ourselves of the appalling conditions under which members of the LGBTQ+ community live in...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist from Russian-occupied Crimea is still being denied healthcare. She was abducted by Russian...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference This is an action from the AmnestyUSA. Johnny Johnson, a 45-year-old man long diagnosed with severe mental disabilities, including schizophrenia and...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference According to the campaigning organisation Reprieve, the UK government has contributed up to £20m to fund prisons in North East Syria where 750 people...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The Israeli offensive that took place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories last week resulted in death, injuries and devastation. Health workers...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The government has recently tabled the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill. As noted in this Guardian editorial , the...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Our action this week comes from Freedom from Torture . The government plan to house refugees on a barge 'the Bibby Stockholm' - effectively a...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The week of 19 th -25 th June is Refugee Week. As well as our own Refugee Week work (see first item below) we have been informed of various events in...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Guillermo Zarraga, a 59-year old Venezuelan engineer and former oil industry unionist, was arbitrarily detained in November 2020 at his home by...