MINEHEAD Amnesty held another letter writing session – a quiet hour and half to write letters of support to human rights activists all over the world.

People at the session at the Quaker Meeting House wrote to petition governments and authorities about the cases supported by Amnesty International UK (AIUK).

There are always many cases to choose from the AIUK Write for Rights booklet, this time including Marielle Franco, 38, who was killed in March in a drive-by shooting in Rio de Janeiro. As a black, bisexual woman, she had faced a lifetime of abuse and her killers should be brought to justice. 

Geraldine Chacon, a human rights activist in Venezuela, was imprisoned for months this year in solitary confinement, and still awaiting a trial for nothing more than a suspicion that she is a member of a political group. 

Letters were written to the authorities asking that her case be dropped as she has committed no offence.

The Minehead group will be taking part in the Christmas Tree Festival in Minehead Methodist Church from December 7.

Photo: Jill Walmsley