Members of the Cardiff Amnesty Group were delighted by the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori last week. Trawling though old blog posts we can see that the group started campaigning for Nazanin in June 2016. We first heard of Nazanin and Gabriella at a candlelight vigil outside the Senedd. Prayers and reflections for…

Members of the Cardiff Amnesty Group were proud to join the march against racism in Cardiff on Sunday 20th March. A party atmosphere prevailed as the noisy protest wound its way through the centre of the city in the spring sunshine. At the heart of the protest, however, was the frustration and anger that fuelled…

by Nadine Salter I used to report on the weather. I loved it: the exhilaration of live TV, the creation of a story on what was happening outside. But now they’ve locked me up. I haven’t seen the Outside for six days. If I had to write a weather report on prison, it would go…

Cardiff Amnesty joined a large crowd outside the steps of the National Museum in Cardiff on Sunday 6th February as part of a vigil to mark the life of Dr Gary Jenkins. The vigil included a minute’s silence, and gave people a chance to share their memories of the late Dr Jenkins. Members of the…

One of the prisoners which Cardiff University’s Innocence Project has been working with has kindly agreed to share excerpts from his personal journal which he has kept throughout the pandemic. These entries truly show the cruelty of excessive cellular confinement and the impact that this practice has on the wellbeing of prisoners. 10th August 2020:…

Cardiff Amnesty is working with activists from around the UK to raise awareness of the inhumane use of confinement-in-cell across the network of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Young Offender Institutes (YOIs). We continue to call for the UK Government to end this practice that an Amnesty report has stated ‘could amount to a breach of…