We'd like to send out a big thank you to everybody who came out to our AmnesTEA event last Thursday. It was a great success - over 30 of our members and others in our community wrote a total of 120 letters to the governments of six focus cases from AIUSA's Write for Rights campaign. In the true spirit of this organization, we pled amnesty for each of these six cases, and demanded that their individual human rights be "respected, protected and fulfilled."
Amnesty International's Write for Rights campaign celebrates International Human Rights Day on December 10. As a wonderful example of why we campaign for the rights of these individuals, Amnesty recently released a story about two Iranian doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei who said that Amnesty International gave them hope when they were imprisoned for their internationally renowned work with HIV/AIDS. In their words, "As a result of your support, we are now free and we are safe." Check out the full story:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/freed-iranian-doctors-say-amnesty-international-campaign-gave-them-hope-2011-11-18
And for more information on this year's Write for Rights campaign, check out: http://www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/cases.php. It's not too late to help us shine a light on human rights abuses around the world!
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