So its all right then! Sir Jackie has his finger on the pulse and has given us the all clear.  Sir Jackie – believes anyone calling for the Bahrain Grand Prix to be cancelled due to unrest in the Gulf state are “out of order”.  Its worth remebering that this time last year there was far […]

Keeping you up to date with information about our groups activities has usually been a fairly positive experience – helping to give uplift from the constant flow of news about prisoners of conscience, people under threat of execution and other human rights abuses we have long campaigned against.  We all feel the work of local […]

For many years now Amnesty International has run a greetings card campaign in December. This has entailed groups and individuals being encouraged to send greetings cards directly to prisoners of conscience (as opposed to letters to governments, etc), sending them a message of hope. Usually to let them know they are in our thoughts (and […]

Hakamada, who was sentenced to death in Japan in 1968 after an unfair trial, has spent much of the past four decades in solitary confinement. Under Japan’s death penalty system he could be executed any day, without warning. In recent years there has been little progress to report but in 2012, following many years of […]