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Reading, England
Joined May 2012
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Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Sir Patrick Stewart was best known for playing heroes on screen, but one of his bravest acts was telling the truth about his own childhood and speaking up for human rights.
For many years, he stood with Amnesty and spoke openly about the violence his mother suffered at home to support our campaign to stop violence against women. His honesty gave courage to survivors around the world.
Our thoughts are with his wife, family and friends. The best way to honour him is to carry on the fight he believed in. It should appal us all that the scourge of violence against women and girls continues, and Governments must do far more to end it. amn.st/6010BHUwSr
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
#UAE: @Ahmed_Mansoor spent 9 years 7 months 1 day in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd
@MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Iran’s Execution Machine and the Kurdish Victims deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co… #iran #sharia #islam #deathpenalty #Kurds
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
This weekend, Reading Stands With Hong Kong held a #TiananmenMassacre 37th Anniversary Memorial at Reading Minster, attended by some 200 people including 2 MPs & 12 local councillors. Brilliant show of support & solidarity.
#RememberJune4
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Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
What are you reading this weekend?
Check out Amnesty International's latest briefing, "Unlawful by Design: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative AI." 📚
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought.
Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems.
Download it here : amnesty.org/en/documents/pol…
@AmnestyTech
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
#UAE: @Ahmed_Mansoor spent 9 years 2 months 4 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
#UAE: @Ahmed_Mansoor spent 9 years 1 month 21 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd
@MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
#UAE: @Ahmed_Mansoor spent 9 years 1 month 20 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd
@MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
#UAE: @Ahmed_Mansoor spent 9 years 1 month 21 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
YES! The European Parliament has moved a step closer to legally defining rape as sex without consent, by adopting a report calling for a new law.
Now it's time to legislate. #LetsTalkAboutYes
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
#UAE: @Ahmed_Mansoor spent 9 years 1 month 6 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years. Please join me & urge @HHShkMohd @MohamedBinZayed @AnwarGargash to #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedMansoor
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Don’t stop talking about Palantir.
We’re only getting started.
But we need YOU to join the campaign.
Join the FREE webinar TOMORROW Tuesday 28 April 2026 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
Register: amn.st/6018BBK9A8
🗣️ Amira Nimerawi, CEO of Healthworkers for Palestine
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Today is the 9th anniversary of @Ahmed_Mansoor arrest. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 2024 he was sentenced in another trial to 15 years in prison on trumped up charges. Join our call to #FreeAhmed. He is not forgotten! #UAE
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
The brutal killing of Yanar Mohammed, who dedicated her life to defending women’s rights, is a calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders, especially those defending women’s rights.
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Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Why reject visas from Afghan women and girls?
Switzerland automatically accepts women and girls from Afghanistan or those who are refugees in Pakistan, who are sole applicants.
They’re being erased from all forms of public life. This blanket policy kills their dreams.
Mahmood to stop study visas from four countries due to 'abuse' bbc.in/4l6QRni
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
📷 Despite serving a 10-year sentence in solitary confinement, award-winning HRD Ahmed Mansoor has now been sentenced to 15 years in the "UAE84" mass trial.
We call for the immediate release of Mansoor & all others unjustly detained for their peaceful activism. 📷
#FreeAhmedMansoor #UAE84 #HumanRights
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Today marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
But millions of Afghan women and girls still living under the Taliban aren't celebrating.
It’s also been 1,607 days since girls over 12 were banned from school.
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
This is what hope looks like.@UKTogetherAll London launch last night. Join us. March 28th 2026. Central London. pic. ift.tt/D8XNBnQ
This is what hope looks like.@UKTogetherAll London launch last night.
Join us. March 28th 2026. Central Londo… ift.tt/O4REdAq
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Statement from the Norwegian Nobel Institute
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is deeply appalled by credible reports detailing the brutal arrest, physical abuse, and ongoing life‑threatening mistreatment of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, currently detained in Iran.
The Committee urgently calls upon the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Narges Mohammadi and to guarantee her access to independent, professional medical care.
Read the full statement: nobelpeaceprize.org/press/pr…
Amnesty International - Reading Town Group retweeted
Iran executes at least 13 prisoners on Saturday morning as regime increases use of death penalty deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co… #iran #sharia #islam #deathpenalty
