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Mar 21 2022 6:11PM
Celebrating the homecoming of Nazananin and Anoosheh

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.

Mar 17 2022 1:11PM
Nazanin and Anoosheh back in the UK

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.

Mar 17 2022 1:04PM
Amnesty South West Conference

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...

Dec 3 2021 6:04PM
Azza Soliman

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...

Nov 22 2021 8:40PM
Write for Rights this week

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...

Jul 8 2021 1:46PM
Next Mid Devon group meeting

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...

Jul 8 2021 1:16PM
Amnesty 60th Anniversary Culmstock Beacon walk

Amnesty Mid Devon is hosting a walk to mark Amnesty International's 60th birthday. The walk will be on Sunday 18 July, at 2pm from Tapscott House near Culmstock (EX15 3HW) - contact Neil or Ceri 01884 842460, or middevonai@gmail.com...

Jun 15 2021 9:30PM
Group meetings on Zoom

Our regular Amnesty Mid Devon monthly meeting continues to be on Zoom - contact Heather, details on website, if you would like to join us. The next meeting is this Thursday at 7.30pm, when we will hear from AI UK's Iran Country Co...

Jan 20 2021 3:23PM
Amnesty Magazine star letter

We were delighted when our member Sylvia Rigby, now aged 92 (as her letter says), featured as Star Letter writer in the Amnesty magazine Winter 2020 edition. Sylvia is an indefatigable campaigner and letter writer on behalf of human...

Jan 20 2021 3:12PM
EAPPI report

Our last blog entry before lockdown last year noted the postponement of an evening with Lesley Salter reporting on her work as an observer with EAPPI, the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, for three months in...

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