{"id":152,"date":"2009-09-08T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-09-08T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:45:36","slug":"calling-all-friends-of-gu-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2009\/09\/calling-all-friends-of-gu-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Friends of GU Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has had a really good summer, doing whatever you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve been doing. I say summer with hilarious irony, because if you all like me were in the UK it was essentially a weird extended springish autumn thing. But hey-ho good news it is getting very, very close to fun Fresher\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s week!<\/p>\n<p>I am just wondering who is around to help out with some really fun things that we have planned! You can be a part of Amnestea and cakes at the cultural carnival, an arms trade photo campaign, a second hand clothing stall, a social at our old favourite the Halt bar, some interesting new decorations for the streets around the Uni &#8211; and of course the Amnesty stall!!<\/p>\n<p>So if you are around the week beginning the 14th, and most particularly the 15th and the 16th please email me\/text me\/facebook me to let me know!<\/p>\n<p>Just to inspire you to re ignite your Amnesty passion I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve just put together a list of the things we are campaigning to stop-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During 2008 at least 2,390 people are known to have been executed<\/li>\n<li>In 2008 78% of executions took place in G20 countries<\/li>\n<li>In 2008 people were tortured or ill treated in 50% of all countries<\/li>\n<li>Last year people were subjected to forced eviction in at least 24 countries<\/li>\n<li>And people seeking asylum were forcibly returned by at least 27 countries to states where they faced torture, detention or even death<\/li>\n<li>The CIA is still known to use waterboarding to extract information from detainees in the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153war on terror\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/li>\n<li>During 2008 at least 8,864 people were sentenced to death<\/li>\n<li>The UN reported 1,200 cases of enforced disappearance last year<\/li>\n<li>Last year prisoners of conscience were held in at least 50 countries<\/li>\n<li>In 2008 freedom of expression was restricted in at least 81 countries<\/li>\n<li>In 2008 of all people detained unjustly often for prolonged periods without charge or trial, 74% were in G20 countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With very best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Hickin<\/p>\n<p>p.s I am currently on the hunt for a clothing rail and a hot water urn&#8230;so even if you can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t make it but can think of someone who can help with that it would really, really helpful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I hope everyone has had a really good summer, doing whatever you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve been doing. I say summer with hilarious irony, because if you all like me were in the UK it was essentially a weird extended springish autumn thing. But hey-ho good news it is getting very, very close to fun Fresher\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s week! I <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2009\/09\/calling-all-friends-of-gu-amnesty\/\"><br \/>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmuU-2s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}