FAMOUS author Hanif Kureishi, with his twins Carlo and Sachin, turned up to support the local Amnesty International's King Street branch last week.
They came to be part of Amnesty's Million Faces visual petition, which is hoping to gather one million faces. The petition will request the United Nations to set up an international arms trade treaty that would bring arms exports under control worldwide.
The local Amnesty International group had a bookstall on Saturday from 11am in the Irish Centre, Blacks Road Hammersmith at the annual Irish Book Fair, gathering more faces (photographically) for the Million Faces' arms trade treaty petition.
There were a number of other famous faces - Amnesty supporter Niall McDevitt read his work with other Irish poets, Peter Tremayne talked and read from his Sister Fidelma mysteries and Joseph O'Connor read from his new book Star of the Sea'.
Anyone wishing to become another of the one million faces, can log into www.controlarms.org or visit the Amnesty bookshop at 139b King Street, Hammersmith.
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