Having been exposed to these issues through the Amnesty International Human Rights Friendly School project, most Warwick Academy students are aware of the fact that millions, over the world, are jailed, tortured or even killed for exercising their Freedom of Expression.

Over the past few years, actions of solidarity with victims of Human Rights abuses such as Malala Yousefsei or Jabbar Slavan, a student from Azerbaijan jailed for his comments on Facebook, have been organised at school and Amnesty Junior Urgent Actions in support of prisoners of conscience land in our inbox on a regular basis. The Warwick Academy Human Rights Friendly School committee, the WA Modern Foreign Language Department and Form teachers organised class discussions about the recent events in France in their language class or Form periods. All students and concerned staff members (above) were invited to show their solidarity to Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonists, reporters and other victims of the recent attacks in France in a symbolic gathering in front of the school.

•Graphic (top left) designed by Year 9 student Joshua Steede