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Urgent Actions |
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"As soon as Amnesty International learns that a person is in imminent danger of human rights abuse, we alert members of the Urgent Action network in over 70 countries. Urgent Action network members then compose and send letters, e-mails, faxes and telegrams to the officials - whether presidents or prison governors - who have the power to stop the abuse. Over the following hours, days and weeks, these officials receive thousands of individually written messages. These are a powerful signal that their actions are being witnessed by an international audience deeply concerned about the fate of those involved." - from the AI website |
to go to Amnesty International's
official website about Urgent Actions to learn more and what you can do.
for a sample urgent action
letter. This particular letter is on behalf of an old focus case, Yury Bandazhevsky.
Since it's just a sample, please do not print it off or send it anywhere since
that would just annoy the government.
Who are those people at the top?
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"Two weeks after an Urgent Action was issued to protest at the detention in Sudan of Rehab Abdel Bagi Mohamed Ali, she was released without charge." -AI website |
In their own words... "I was beaten and verbally abused in detention.
After a few days, the guards asked me, 'Do you know that your name is
all over the Internet?' After that, I was treated better by the guards
before being released. The appeals sent by Amnesty members definitely
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In their own words... "Amnesty International’s support was like a candle that lit the darkness of the cell and left the spark alive and vivid in our souls."
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"Urgent Action letter-writers sent thousands of appeals to protect Syrian prisoner of conscience Riad al-Turk from torture and ill-treatment, and to secure his release." -AI website |
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