Stand Up in the Park will be returning to Sophia Gardens for a 5th year on Sunday 2nd July at 8pm. This year, we will be joined by the amazing comics Clint Edwards, Esther Manito and Micky Overman.
Incarcerated in Evin Prison: Mehran Raoof’s Urgent Plea for UK Action and Condemnation of Iran’s Exploitation of Dual-Nationals
Mehran Raoof, a British-Iranian labor activist, has been detained in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison since 2020 on vague charges related to his activism. Recently, he wrote a letter from prison highlighting the dire conditions he and other political prisoners are facing, including poor health care and lack of access to basic necessities like clean water.
Take the London to Tehran Challenge
If they can’t come to us, we’ll go to them! This October, we are inviting everyone to walk, run, scoot, skate and cycle the 3,209 miles from London to Tehran in support of Morad Tahbaz and Mehran Raoof. You can take on the challenge as an individual or as part of a local team but…
“We’re all a part of a club that nobody wants to be a member of…”
In 2018, the Tahbaz family joined the Ashoori and the Zaghari-Ratcliffe families in the “club that nobody wants to be a member of.” Morad Tahbaz was working on animal conservation projects in Iran when he was arrested and accused of espionage. In November 2019 he was given a 10 year prison sentence for “contacts with…
Stand Up In The Park comedy event – tickets on sale now!
Stand Up for Human Rights with Cardiff Amnesty and Everyman Theatre’s Cardiff Open Air Festival The successful ‘Stand Up in the Park’ returns to Sophia Gardens, Cardiff for a fourth year on Saturday 3rd July at 8pm. Superb comics Stephen Bailey, Eleanor Tiernan and Carl Donnelly are hitting the stage, compered by Clint Edwards. Organised…
The campaign against excessive cellular confinement continues: a note from the working group.
by Seth Olner Cardiff Amnesty have now been campaigning against excessive cellular confinement in UK prisons since before the COVID-19 pandemic, when approximately 20% of prisoners were held in cells for over 22 hours a day. During the pandemic the situation became even more grave as the vast majority of prisoners were contained within the…
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