Feb 16 2012 - 7:15pm
Maya Evans: The First UK Peace Activist to Visit Afghanistan Since 9/11
This past Christmas, Maya traveled to Afghanistan with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She met with human rights activists, refugees, and people affected by NATO night raids and drone strikes. In October 2005 Evans was arrested for reading out the names of British soldiers who died in Iraq, and was the first person to be convicted of demonstrating within 1km of the Parliament. In June 2010 she won “a partial victory” in the High Court that stopped Britain transferring detainees to a detention center run by the Afghan intelligence agency, NDS, because of the risk of torture. Come and hear her first hand account of the situation in Afghanistan.
Quaker Meeting House7 Victoria Terrace
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