While enjoying the festive music, they were urged to send greetings cards to people throughout the world who are prisoners of conscience or are being persecuted in their struggle for human rights.
The event was organised by the Colwyn Bay Amnesty Group, who were joined by members of three North Wales choirs.
The card-signing is part of Amnesty International’s “Write for Rights” campaign and this year the Group focused on two prisoners, one being the head of Turkey’s Medical Association, who faces seven years in prison for querying Turkey’s use of torture and chemical weapons, and the other an Egyptian business student who has been in prison for five years without trial solely because of his brother’s human rights activism.
The group, which has held signing events in Denbigh and Ruthin libraries, will be posting 250 cards letting the recipients know they are not forgotten, and often prompting their guards to be more careful in their treatment of them.
