Amnesty International

I've spent a lot of today having a big Google-session to try and organise my life. I'm going to be teaching in China for the next year, and then the plan is to do an MA in Human Rights, back in the UK. So I've spent a lot of time looking at relevant work experience for next summer, for before I would be starting. If I have the money, I'll hopefully be able to volunteer at some kind of refugee camp (I've found websites for ones in Kenya and Palestine, which I could apply for), or failing that, maybe some kind of internship or fundraising job for a relevant charity or similar organisation.

I was on the Amnesty International site, getting updated on all their current missions, and started reading the details of the campaigns going on in China at the moment. Loads of interesting things, such as campaigning against censorship, torture and the death penalty (apparently they execute more people per year than the rest of the world put together), and petitions to free human rights advocates in China. Then I went to sign up for the updates on the things going on in China, as there obviously won't be much information on it available when I'm over there.

Then I thought - hang on - will they be checking my emails? I mean I know there won't be someone sitting there trawling through every one, but they could easily scan them for buzz words - all of which would probably be included in these kinds of emails. That's what they do with their internet censorship anyway, I think. And, if so, will I be likely to get arrested? Because after reading what Amnesty have to say, I don't really fancy that. They might just block my emails though, which would only be irritating. I could always blag the 'I'm a stupid Westerner' thing. Unless they're looking at this website, too...