WEST Somerset’s Amnesty group had a stall in The Avenue, Minehead, on International Women’s Day, Friday March 8, collecting signatures from around 100 people.

They each signed letters of support for three women:

* Leila de Lima: a human rights lawyer in the Philippines, imprisoned for criticising the President.

* Salima Memcha: campaigning in India for justice for her husband, was shot dead by security police.

* Chiham Ali Ahmed: imprisoned in Eritrea aged 15 and still in prison five years later for trying to cross the border into Sudan.