On Tuesday 14 May 2019, Manchester Amnesty International hosted a talk on Syrian detainees in Assad’s prisons. Our manager Dr Haytham Alhamwi delivered a touching presentation on the plight of thousands of Syrian civilians who have been unlawfully and arbitrarily detained primarily by the Assad regime and its affiliated militias.
Rethink Rebuild Society issued a statement on 10 May 2019 condemning the military campaign of the Assad regime and its Russian ally on Idlib province and warning of another wave of displacement of Syrians in Idlib.
On Friday 3 May 2019, we hosted two community legal education presentations on the Designated Area Offence and the changes that will be made to the teaching of Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) in English schools. The presentations were delivered by solicitor Nasir Hafezi.
We had a fruitful film screening, poetry performance and panel discussion at HOME Manchester on Monday 29 April 2019. The film screening MemoriesfromSyria showed excerpts of the stories of Syrians in the UK who shared, in their own words, some of the experiences that they underwent either throughout the conflict in Syria, through their journeys to reach safety in Europe and through rebuilding their lives in the UK.
On Sunday 28 April 2019, we hosted the screening of Nae Pasaran (2018), which reveals the tremendous impact made by Scottish factory workers 40 years ago against Pinochet’s Air Force in Chile. The workers refused to repair the warplanes engine in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile.
