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…

Richard Ratcliffe is now 18 days into his hunger strike outside of the Foreign Office in a brave move to bring attention to government inaction to free his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from prison in Iran. Nazanin has been unjustly detained in Tehran, Iran since 2016. She was initially given a 5 year prison sentence on…

We are pleased to announce that the co-chair of the Cardiff Amnesty group, Lauren, has given birth to beautiful twin boys. Before their birth, the boys were involved in a fundraiser for a local Cardiff charity that trains and provides volunteer birth partners to women who would otherwise birth alone; aptly named The Birth Partner…

This blog post was kindly written by Cardiff Amnesty member Elizabeth who was able to share some good news with us all at our last meeting. Now for the good news… We deal with some pretty grim issues in Amnesty, so it’s always encouraging to get some good news: here are a few items from…