Students caged themselves in an Oxford street to raise awareness of the plight of political prisoners.

Supporters of Amnesty International at Oxford University 'locked' themselves in a wooden cage outside the Sheldonian Theatre in Broad Street, to raise funds for the group's human rights campaigns.

The four-day stunt is being held to publicise the group's Cage Week.

Spokesman Rob Elliott,19, a second-year student at St Peter's College, said: "The cage is a reminder of prisoners of conscience, who have been imprisoned for their beliefs or their identity. It is also symbolic of the restrictions on freedom which are involved in all the human rights violations which Amnesty opposes."