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12 MAR

Day 2 of Jailbreak sees teams race to Italy and meet €50,000 target

The final clue sends the teams south as they continue to fundraise

Amber Davy

The second and final day of Jailbreak has kicked off, and the Jailbreak goal of €50,000 has just been reached.

A donation of €100 to Team 51 (Philip agus Thomas, TCD) at around 1:40pm brought their amount to €1,865, and …

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20 DEC

USI stands in solidarity with campaign to free Ibrahim Halawa

The Union ran two days of campaigning last week to coincide with International Human Rights Day and Halawa’s 20th birthday.

Megan Thompson

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) last week joined with Amnesty International Ireland in the campaign to free Ibrahim Halawa, the Irish man who has been detained in an Egyptian prison for more than two years without trial.

As …

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25 NOV

Trinity academic among 838 medical professionals to sign Amnesty International open letter calling for decriminalisation of abortion

Dr Veronica O’Keane: Repeal of the eighth amendment will not be enough

Patrick Higgins

Trinity professor in psychiatry, Dr Veronica O’Keane, and Dr Peter Boylan, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the National Maternity Hospital, where the two Irish doctors who, along with 838 other physicians from 44 countries, last week signed an open letter …

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02 OCT

Repeal the 8th Campaign launched on Trinity College campus

Week 1 saw an Amnesty petition in the arts block; week 2 will see a panel of experts on the subject.

Dee Courtney

Amnesty International’s ‘My Body, My Rights’ campaign was launched in the Arts block this Monday by the Trinity branch of Amnesty and Trinity College Students’ Union, as part of the SU campaign to repeal the 8th.

The Amnesty campaign is …