Klaus Huber writes:

Bradford-on-Avon Quakers have a talk coming up on Human Rights in Russia Tue 19 June 1930 at the Bradford-on-Avon Meeting House. The event is organised by our local Amnesty Group. The speaker, Sergei Nikitin, happens to be a Quaker and was instrumental in setting up Friends House Moscow in the mid-1990s.

Russian police detain an LGBT protester in Moscow. Amnesty International reported a worsening human rights situation in Russia last year (photo AFP via Interfax Ukraine).