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We’ll resume our monthly letter-writing sessions in 2023 on the following dates: Tuesday 17 th January, Tuesday 21 st February, Tuesday 21 st March. Meetings start at 8pm. More letter-writers always welcome. And... do you have any old...
Letter-writing We held four monthly letter-writing sessions between September and December. Street Collection On 1 st October, we organised a street collection in Saffron Walden. The collection including pennies and later donations...
We don’t meet in August, so our next letter-writing evening will be 8pm – 10pm on Tuesday 20 th September at 3 London Road, Saffron Walden. Also, please put our Amnesty Street Collection day, Saturday 1 st October , in your diary and...
19th July - Thanks to the 5 others who joined Paul and me to write action letters on Tuesday evening despite the extraordinary heat. The letters written will be sent off, along with the ones signed at the Garden Party.
On 17th July, Saffron Walden Amnesty Group held their annual summer social event, The Wi ne and Cheese Garden Party. As you can see from the photograph, this is always a nicely informal and enjoyable gathering offering the chance to...
We met for our June letter-writing session on Tuesday (21 st ). We wrote letters about the following cases: Thailand: Two women on hunger strike are demanding the right to bail after being detained for conducting street polls. Iran...
On 17th May, we wrote letters concerning the following cases: Romania: Ukrainian refugee Amina Gerikhanova , a Chechen national who had lived in Ukraine since 2016, and fled to Romania after the Russian invasion, is facing extradition...
We wrote letters about the following cases in April: Slovenia: Slovenian theatre director Jaša Jenull facing exorbitant claims to cover the costs associated with policing protests he attended but did not organise - a dangerous...
Another great evening’s letter-writing on 15th March. 23 letters + 23 cc/s to embassies were written about: Colombia – environmental defenders at risk Morocco – an ethnic Uyghur at risk of extradition to China Singapore – appeal...
Action: Letter writing We met on Tuesday 15 th February to write letters about the following cases: CHINA : Gao Zhisheng, a former prisoner of conscience and human rights lawyer, is subject to enforced disappearance. No information...