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Weekly Updates
Hi everyone, The arrival of all this snow has made me feel very festive and this weeks Amnesty happenings are a definite reflection of that! Tuesday 30th November: Greetings cards – Amnesty UK’s annual greetings card campaign is underway and … Continue reading
Aung San Released! And This Weeks Happenings
Hello everyone, I hope you are all well on this pivotal day! Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s opposition leader and our longest-serving prisoner of conscience, has finally been released after spending 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest! … Continue reading
Latest News
Hello you GU Amnesty folk, Tuesday 9th November: 5pm-6pm, committee room 1, QMU, Guest Speaker, Yu Yu Williamson, “China’s organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners” http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173170119360656&index=1 New Facebook group: Lots of you said facebook wasn’t working so we have a … Continue reading
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Week 6 and Conference Info
Hi everyone, Week 6 in Brief: Monday 25th October, Protect the Human gig night, The 13th Note, 8.30pm, £3.50 (for directions and travel arrangements see below). Tuesday 26th October, meeting, committee room 1, QMU, 5pm. Troy Davis and the death … Continue reading
New Website!
We have a new website! The old one, though it served a purpose, was getting a bit long in the tooth. In the spirit of the new decade, we have a fancy new updated design. The driving ideas behind the … Continue reading
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Updates And Tonight
Last weeks AGM elected the following as the new committee for GU Amnesty 2010-11 President: Megan Bailey Vice President: Catriona Reilly Secretary: Claudia Madruga Treasurer: Jen Conway Fundraising Co-ordinator: Catherine Wright Website Convenor: Robert Hallam Ordinary Board Member: Claire Rooney … Continue reading
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Iraqi Shoe-Throwing Journalist Was Tortured
Muntadar al-Zaidi has demanded an apology for the torture he received while in a Baghdad prison for 9 months. Initially convicted to 3 years imprisonment for throwing a shoe to then-President George W Bush, his sentence was reduced and he … Continue reading
Lethal injection ‘okay’
So, does anyone remember last year when the US Supreme Court were reviewing claims that the lethal injection, which is supposed to induce a painless death by using sodium thiopental as an anaesthetic, was actually causing a lot of painful … Continue reading
AGM 08 – New Committee!
So we had our AGM and amongst other things we elected our new committee! Click the jump to see who they are and read the minutes.
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Cabinet Split Over 42 Day Detention Limit
As part of their campiagn against the 42 day limit, Liberal Conspiracy brings us the news that there is a split in the cabinet over plans to extend the limit that terror suspects can be detained for without charge. The … Continue reading