KB Player wrote a post yesterday about a correspondence she had with Amnesty International UK.
I’m a member of Amnesty International and wrote expressing my concern about their association with CAGE. I got this reply back:-
Amnesty International UK’s Director Kate Allen, said
“Amnesty no longer considers it appropriate to share a public platform with Cage and will not engage in coalitions of which Cage is a member. Recent comments made by Cage representatives have been completely unacceptable, at odds with human rights principles and serve to undermine the work of NGOs, including Amnesty International.”
But don’t go thinking they’re accepting that Gita Sahgal was right. Oh no. They’re not doing that. [Read more…]