SCORES of shoppers and supporters signed greetings cards and letters for human rights activists at Minehead Amnesty’s Write for Rights coffee morning on Friday (December 14).

One card was for Geraldine Chacon, who started peaceful campaigning as a teenage youth leader in Venezuela but now needs help herself. 

Imprisoned for months in solitary confinement, and allowed no visitors, she has been conditionally released but must report to the authorities each month, cannot leave the country and risks imprisonment again. 

Her only crime is to be suspected of being a member of a political group. 

Minehead Mayor Norman Hercock visited and signed all the cards.

The Amnesty Christmas tree (pictured in thre background) was one of many in the Save the Children festival, this year with the theme ‘seasons’.