Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Exeter Local Group of Amnesty International.
OUR GROUP
The picture above shows some of our members and supporters at a fund-raising Salad Lunch with music at Belmont Park in Newtown, Exeter, on Saturday 24 July 2010. As you will see from the site's other pages we are an active group which campaigns, educates and fund raises for Amnesty's human rights work. We have over 40 members, about half of whom are active. We welcome new members who can come along to any of our monthly meetings, details of which are on the about us page. Information about our forthcoming activities is available in the DIARY OF EVENTS and the Winter Programme.
Click here to see a poster giving details of two talks, viz 'The Cultural Work of Recovering Palestine' and 'The Spring of Young Palestinian Women Filmmakers, and a film at Exeter University on 4th May.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
The photo below shows members of the Exeter and Exeter University branches of Amnesty International on 4 June 2010 at the Tiananmen Memorial Sculpture on the Streatham Campus of Exeter University marking the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
About 15 of us laid flowers and held a two-minute silence. Tobin Broadbent was there - he was one of the students who built the statue on the evening of 4 June 1989 and moved it under cover of darkness, without permission, to the campus. The following morning it was surrounded by flowers and students, and the university authorities were obliged to allow it to stay there.
More photos may be found in our Gallery.
TORTURE
TORTURE
