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A • • Chairman's Report TREASURER'S REPORT in not increasing this amount we are inevi- tably relying upon virtually all groups to Tragically, the need for Amnesty International Last Year reach or exceed this figure. On the expen- is greater today than it has ever been. Hope- The year 1975/76 was unusually exciting diture side, we are hoping to substantially fully, that need is now more widely recog- and, overall, rewarding. We started the year increase our contribution to the International nised than ever before. Both on the British with reserves equal to less than one month's Secretariat for research, etc. It is as a result and on the international scene Amnesty, expenditure. By late summer these reserves of such contributions that our groups are both as a concept and as an organisation has, had been used up and it was only the magni- able to receive documented case sheets on in its sixteenth year, 'come of age'. Govern- ficent response of a few people to a special their adopted prisoners and that Amnesty is ments •- both with good and with bad appeal that prevented the need to substan- able to base its activities on reliable and records -- now take Amnesty International tially reduce our activities. By December it therefore credible information. The National seriously. The mass media of the western became clear that our ambitious budget for office expenditure is changed to enable a world refer to Amnesty International in the year was not as unreasonable as it had small increase in staff and provision for a much the same way as to the International seemed, since we were receiving an almost substantial increase in expenditure relating Red Cross. We are no longer in the position 50% increase each month in our main regular to premises. This latter increase is needed, of having to preface what we say with an sources of income, i.e. subscriptions, group not only because the present lease at explanation of what we are and of what we contributions and donations over that Theobald's Road expires in December 1976, are not. received in the same months of the previous but also because considerably more space is year. In April 1976 two extremely success- needed to enable us to operate more effec- This all means that we now have the kind of ful events were held and the resulting income tively and use more offers of voluntary help. platform we need, in at least part of the and related donations enabled us to end the world, to work more effectively for the year in considerably better circumstances To success or otherwise of Amnesty can release of prisoners of conscience and for the than we started. never be judged by its financial accounts. humane treatment of all prisoners. The task Success lies in such areas as reducing the to be done is enormous. In Britain, having I am pleased to say that the increase of 50% incidence of torture and political imprison- reached 'take off point', we must now referred to above has since been maintained ment: but finance is vital, because it is one determine priorities for the tasks ahead. One and although the value of such an increase is of the essential ingredients in achieving such set of priorities, I believe, lies in the inevitably eroded by inflation, we are now these aims. Without finance many of the sphere of education in human rights. That - able to plan ahead with more confidence ingredients would be unavailable, e.g. by any definition — is charitable work. But than for some time. reliable research and educational data on in reality our whole work is, by any meaning- which most of our campaigning and our ful definition, charitable. The 'break through' The Accounts credibility is dependent; a professional staff to charitable status in British law is now one A summary of the 1975/76 accounts and of to fully exploit the research material so that of our next important objectives. Our the 1976/77 budget is shown opposite. Since it reaches the widest possible audience finances have become healthier — which, at the Annual Report has to go to press very through the press, radio and television; the a time of such inflation is no small shortly after the end of the financial year so newspaper which informs the membership achievement. But our financial needs, if the that members and groups can reCeive it in and sympathisers on Amnesty topics. If work is to be expanded in relation to the time for the Annual General Meeting, it is Amnesty has, as I believe, enormously suffering of the oppressed, are enormous. not possible to provide audited accounts increased its effectiveness over the last year, We shall therefore continue to make great here. The figures shown on the accounts for this has been due largely to our increased demands on all our supporters and well the year ended 30th April 1976 are based on expenditure in some of these areas. Because wishers. In giving their money and their the final draft accounts submitted for audit. of the enormity of the task, we still urgently time all those who cherish freedom will be Copies of the audited accounts may be need to increase our income. Happily I making an investment that is both practical obtained by request from the British Section believe that the potential for support in and of incalculable moral and spiritual of Al, 55 Theobald's Road, London WC I , Britain is considerable and that over the last significance. or may be inspected at the office. These year we have made some progress in tapping audited accounts may of course differ from this support. the figures in the Financial Report due to adjustments made by our auditors. Last year there were several such adjustments and the corrected figures for 1974/75 are shown in this year's Financial Report.

The Year Ahead The budget for 1976/77 is based on the expectation that our income will continue to increase at around the same pace as in the last year. Group contributions of £28,700 is Paul Oestreicher based upon the target figure of £205 for each June 1976 of the 140 adoption groups. Last year many N.J. Harding groups managed to send more than £205 and June 1976

Executive Committee Clarinda Peto Committee member Everyone was greatly saddened at the end of The following members served on the Kate Rorke Committee member May 76 to hear of the death of Kate Rorke, Executive Committee in 1975/6: Gordon Smith Committee member member of the Executive Committee and Rev. Paul Oestreicher Chairman John Hill Groups representative leader of the Aylesford Group. Her enthu- Derek Edwards Vice Chairman (Scotland) siastic spirit and her ardent campaigning for Nick Harding Hon. Treasurer Rodger Lawrence Groups representative Amnesty will be sorely missed. Eric Baker Committee member (Midlands) Peter Burns Committee member Harold Hillman Groups representative Paddy Coyle Committee member (South of England) David lye Committee member Michael Williams Co-opted member Thomas Pereira Committee member Bobbie Jacobson Co-opted member

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL : BRITISH SECTION Financial Report for year ending 30 April, 1976

Actual Actual Budget Budget 1974/75 1975/76 1975/76 1976/77

i t. ,C .E Income 7,152 Subscriptions 11,670 I 2,000 16,600 238 Affiliation Fees 800 750 2,000 14,297 Group Contributions 20,201 24,000 28,700 12,537 Donations 30,079 16,000 22,700 3,450 Appeals 2,539 3,000 4,000 6,006 Groups - special 4,619 6,000 6,000 1,160 Sales of Publications 5,868 (449) Events 450 12,000 247 Miscellaneous 412 5,300 £44,638 Total Income £76,638 £67,050 £92,000

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Expenditure Contribution for Research and assistance from 24,310 International Secretariat 29,213 29,318 £38,600 Nat. Office Expenditure £10,677 Salaries £16,067 £18,750 £26,000 1,270 Travel & Development 2,368 1,800 3,300 2,921 Rent, cleaning, etc. 3,021 2,750 7,500 2,376 Newspaper printing & post 3,556 4,700 5,000 5,018 Printing, Post & Stationery 13,197 6,000 10,300 24,220 1,958 Other expenses _ 1,735 39,944 1,500 35,500 _ 4,400 56,500 _

£48,530 Total Expenditure £69,157 £64,818 £95,100

(3,892) Excess of Income over Expenditure for year 7,481 7,960 Reserves at 1.5.75 4,068 •

£ 4,068 Reserves at 30.4.76 £11,549

These reserves are represented by:- L513 Office equipment at cost £568 297 216 Less depreciation 301 267 Due from P of C Fund 701 118 Due from Int. Sect. 968 Debtors & Prepayments 1,054 6,683 Cash at Bank & in Hand 20,483 8,066 22,505 Less Liabilities Due to Int. Secretariat £ 5,183 Due to Prisoners of 378 Conscience Fund 1,208 Project Fund 662 3,998 2,412 Creditors & accruals 5,111 10,956 £ 4,068 £11,549 •

Director'sReport PrisonerWork hospital marked the end of much campaign We start the New Year with over 140 ing by Amnesty and other organisations. It is a rather special time for Amnesty 'Groups of Three', in almost 130 locations International in Britain. all over the United Kingdom. Together they Until recently, centrally-organised campaig are working for around 330 prisoners in ing work has been necessarily limited by th A year ago, we were faced with a fight for some 30 different countries. Like the other urgency of our financial situation. The mos survival, with such serious obstacles in our 1,500 or so Amnesty International Groups productive work has probably been the way as an economic depression and an all around the world, they work for the briefings arranged for journalists, MPs and increase in staff and overheads, vitally release of their three prisoners by letter- others who have been directly involved wit necessary to achieve the very growth for writing, telegrams, publicity, and many other individual countries, visiting dignitaries, etc. which we are striving. We have survived; but methods. The 'welfare' element of their more than that, we are on the move again. work, both in communicating with the Co-ordination of the work of Groups who prisoner wherever possible and in terms of have prisoners in the same countries, which The hundreds of extra public engagements, financial support for the prisoner's family, has seen important developments in other the thousands of miles of travelling, the provision of legal assistance and so on, is European national sections in the last few creation of new campaigning tools — leaflets, another important element in their work. years, has so far been somewhat slow to posters and so on —and the policy of taking develop in the U.K. In the coming year, on as much of everything as possible, means Many Groups take part in special campaigns, however, it is hoped that more time will be that we can now pause for breath and take such as the Uruguay Campaign mentioned available at Head Office to concentrate on stock of a materially different campaign. elsewhere in this report; and, also in the past this aspect of the work. Training schemes More members (over a thousand more last year, in pickets organised by the respective for co-ordinators, involvement of area year!). More Groups. More money. But most area co-ordinators outside the Spanish and specialists and greater group involvement important, perhaps, more activity. Whether Moroccan tourist offices, the Soviet and in campaign work are all planned. one looks at the number of mentions of Indonesian embassies; and Group members Amnesty in the Press and the volume of were received in several embassies to discuss mail arriving each day (both regularly the cases of their adopted prisoners. between five and ten times the equivalent of just over a year ago), whether it's the It is always encouraging to see the successful number of briefings of Press, MPs, and others end of an adoption case. British Groups had which we are asked to give, or whether one 137 prisoners released last year; the "world" looks at any of the other areas of our a equivalent figure was 1,688. Inaddition to activity — it all points to a campaign which simply learning of the releases, it is a great really is on the move. encouragement to actually meet released prisoners. Last year we were particularly pleased to meet Chilean actress Coca Rudolfi, whose case we had highlighted in some of our publicity material; and Soviet mathe- matician Leonid Plyushch whose dramatic release from Dniepropetrovsk prison mental Left Below left Al Kensington Group second-hand stall Liverpool AI Groups and their prisoner near the Portobello Road market in London. cave, collecting signatures for the inter- national petition against torture in Uruguay Below -- as bitterly portrayed in a Montevideo A demonstration organised by the USSR newspaper cartoon. Co-ordination Group outside the Soviet Embassy in London to mark the publi- Far left cation of Al's report "Prisoners of Familiar faces from 'Monty Python', 'The Conscience in the USSR". Goodies', and 'Beyond the Fringe' take a break from rehearsals of 'A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick)' -- the Al fundraising revue.

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Fundraising and Development Campaign for the Abolition of Torture Press and Publicity This year, apart from covering its own (C.A.T.) The conscious effort to treat Press calls as operating costs, the British Section will have The British Section's part in this increasingly priority and to be available at all times to to contribute around £39,000 to the Inter- important aspect of Amnesty's work is assist journalists with human rights stories national Secretariat, in respect of our share expanding fast. The Urgent Action scheme must inevitably pay off in terms of increased of all the research, mission, and so on which for telegrams sent immediately on hearing Press coverage. (To be woken at home by a provide the vast bulk of our knowledge of of serious allegations of torture, is operating Moscow journalist's phone call must be human rights throughout the world, enable well and is being extended into nearly all some kind of landmark in establishing this us to work for individual prisoners and take local Amnesty Groups by means of regional function!) The publication of impressive part with other national sections and their co-ordinators and special C.A.T. represen- reports and briefing papers produced by the groups in important international campaigns. tatives in each Group. International Secretariat has complemented Even last year, the sum we had to pay was a this new Press work. daunting £30,000, on top of our own, Our participation in the massive international increased budget of around £35,000. campaign against torture in Uruguay has The report "Prisoners of Conscience in the resulted not only in widespread publicity in USSR" published in November 1975 has From an initial position of despair, much the U.K. (some of it bitterly reproduced and been greeted around the world as one of the progress has been made. The tide was first criticised in the Uruguayan Press) but also most thorough and objective works on the turned by some very generous individuals the gathering of probably more signatures subject and has done much to strengthen who came to the rescue with substantial on the international petition to the Amnesty's image of independence and non- cheques. The ready response of our own Uruguayan President than any other Al alignment. A new series of short, concise members to our Christmas appeal together National Section. 'Briefing Papers' dealing with human rights with an increased rate of new membership was started early this year; subjects so far and donations from the general public Other activities include continuing pressure have been Singapore, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe helped to continue the recovery. The major on HM Government to ratify the UN and Peoples Democratic Republic of the fundraising events of the year, however, Covenants 1966 and further work on the Yemen. Radio and Television interviews, were clearly two benefits held in April: subject of training British military personnel reference and briefings are all increasing. Yehudi Menuhin's wonderful gift of his in "torture resistance" by subjecting them to 60th birthday concert at the Royal Festival certain torture techniques: pressure aimed Hall with his son Jeremy; and the spec- at stopping this practice will soon be coming tacular and generous gift by nineteen top from other AI National Sections. stars of British revue comedy in the form of a three night late revue show. Meanwhile, many Groups were also joining the chal- lenge with tremendous efforts, most achieving their fundraising targets and some overtaking them. A fundraising file about to be distributed should help to boost efforts in the coming year. David Simpson June 1976 •

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The diagram shows the budget of the ADMINISTRATION £49,000 (8) International Secretariat of Amnesty International for the year May 1976 to April 1977 — a total of £492,000 (1966/77 .067,000). The boxes are to scale, showing the respective size of each part of the budget; and the number of staff posts CO-ORDINATION £34,000 (5) authorised within each department is shown in brackets inside each box.

Located in London, the International Secretariat serves the whole Amnesty move- ment, principally with the results of its FIELD OFFICERS & DEVELOPMENT £15,000 (2) research work, missions, international diplomatic and legal work and its publi- cations. In return, it is supported by all the National Sections and Groups around the world. The British Section is collimated to paying £38,600 towards the total budget INFORMATION & PUBLICATIONS £35,000 (8) of £492,000 in 1976/77.

TRANSLATIONS L11,000 (2)

SECRETARY GENERAL'S OFFICE £42,000 (5)

LEGAL ADVISER £1 2,000 (11/2)

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE £28,000 (5)

DOCUMENTATION CENTRE £26,000 (4)

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT £240,000 (41%)

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Valentin Moroz Vida Hadiebi Tabrizt Pramoedya Ananta Tur Ukrainian Teacher. 1966 sentenced to 4 Iranian Sociologist. 38 years old. Critical of Indonesian Novelist. 1965, arrested as a years' hard labour for criticising Soviet the regime, she was kidnapped by secret member of left-wing, cultural association. policy. On release, refused employment police held for one year without trial; 1969, shipped to island of Buru "resettle- because of "criminal record". severely tortured. ment area" (prison camp), where over Rearrested and sentenced to 6 years prison Sentenced at secret trial to seven years' 10,000 political detainees are held as forced 3 years' labour camp and 5 years exile as imprisonment. Health very poor as a result labourers indefinitely and without trial. "recidivist". of torture.

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