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Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. Luke Symons, a 29-year-old British national, arbitrarily detained by the Huthi de facto authorities for more than four years in Sanaa, Yemen, has been moved...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. Anoosheh Ashoori is a retired British father and husband who has been arbitrarily imprisoned in Iran for over four years. Anoosheh was visiting his elderly...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. The international community is failing Yemen. There is currently no international mechanism to investigate potential war crimes or violations of human rights...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill is continuing its way through the UK parliamentary system. Amnesty believes that the bill will put too much...

Hi Manchester Amnesty Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. Tibetan monk Rinchen Tsultrim was sentenced to four years and six months’ imprisonment in a secret trial for “inciting secession” after...

Hi Manchester Amnesty Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. In many countries it is dangerous and risky to speak out for human rights and expose the truth. Governments often intimidate, harass...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Today is Human Rights Day. Please do this action and make a difference. Here is another online action for one of this year’s Write for Rights cases. Mohamed Baker is a Human Rights lawyer who leads the...

Here is your Manchester Amnesty newsletter for December. It contains a report of our very successful November meeting on Syria, and lots of information about the annual Write for Rights Campaign which is currently ongoing. Here is a...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. Today I’m featuring another case from this year’s Write for Rights campaign. Sphere is an LGBTI and women’s rights organisation in Ukraine. Founded in 2006...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action Please do this action and make a difference. Today is UAE Prisoner of Conscience Mohammed Al-Roken’s birthday. Dr Al-Roken, a prominent human rights lawyer in the UAE, was detained in July 2012 and...