Thank You – from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband and sister-in-law Stand Up in the Park, the highlight of Amnesty International Cardiff Group/ Grŵp Amnest Rhyngwladol Caerdydd’s summer calendar, is no more. The event has come to an end as our partner for the annual mid-summer evening, Everyman Theatre Cardiff, did not run its usual series of…
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Our Search for a New Chairperson
The Cardiff Amnesty Group is looking for a new Chair to lead our campaigning at a vital time for standing up for human rights across the world. As a global movement of over seven million people, Amnesty International is the world’s largest grass-roots human rights organisation. We investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilise the…
Stand Up in the Park Returns for a 5th Year – Tickets on Sale Now!
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.
Mehran Raoof given 10-year prison sentence in Iran
As many of you will be aware, Iran has been on a vicious campaign of arbitrarily detaining dual national citizens for a number of years. Many detained are initially arrested on massively trumped up charges, which often have no real legal basis. The treatment that prisoners then face has come under global scrutiny and has regularly been found to amount to torture.
Our next book: Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
We are now up to our fifth book since the Cardiff Amnesty Human Rights Book Club began and we continue to cover a range of thought-provoking material. Our last read, I Didn’t Do It For You by Michela Wrong, focused on the long and complex history of the country of Eritrea. This book provided an…
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