Sutton

Our Chair attended an online webinar run by AIUK and Peace Brigades International UK, which featured the human rights defender Bernardo Caal Xol from Guatemala. Bernardo is a 50-year-old indigenous teacher, trade unionist and defender...

Several members of the Sutton Amnesty group attended a screening of the harrowing, but Oscar winning, documentary '20 Days in Mariupol'. It was good to support our Croydon Amnesty colleagues who had a table at the cinema's entrance and...

On Saturday 23 March, three members of Sutton Amnesty joined a protest outside the old Wilko store in Sutton organised by the Hong Kong Culture and Arts Society. The aim was to draw attention to the recently introduced Article 23 of...

Our Chair attended “ Words for the Silenced: A Human Rights and Poetry Event ”, organised by Exiled Writers Ink in collaboration with the Westminster and Mayfair Amnesty groups and the Regent’s University Liberal Studies Department...

Our March talk focused on Russia, a mere 17 days after the shocking death of Alexei Navalny. It is a challenge to stay positive in such circumstances, so we were fortunate to have Iona Fletcher, one of two Amnesty UK Country...

Sutton Amnesty has had a particular interest in the UAE following our adoption in 2021 of Dr Mohamed al-Roken as our 'Individual at Risk'. We were therefore very pleased to discover that Sima Watling, who we met at a protest outside...

Amnesty UK, with a representation from Sutton Amnesty, held a vigil outside the Japanese Embassy in London on October 10th, 2023, asking for the death sentence to be rescinded for the world's longest-serving death row prisoner...

On Saturday 27th January John and Anne attended an “Amnesty Surrey & Borders“ conference in Woking. The event was organised by Arianna Pisetti with the aims of bringing groups in the region together, discussing how to rejuvenate our...

Our January 2024 meeting kicked off with guest speaker Oliver Feeley-Sprague. Oliver is Amnesty International UK's Programme Director for its work on arms controls and policing. His talk covered a number of areas including Arms Control...

In December John and Graham attended a vigil including delivery of a report to the Greek Embassy on the sinking of the Adriana with the death of over 600 refugees. The report, “Seeking Asylum is a Human Right - Stop Deaths at Sea”...