April 2024 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in April 2024. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $30. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• People’s Republic of China – Release Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan!
• Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – Free Ayman Sanduka!
• Lesotho – Improve conditions at Maseru Centre Correctional Institution!
• Tunisia – Stop persecution of graffiti artist Rached Tamboura!
• Zimbabwe – Stop judicial harassment of opposition politicians!

The letters we’ve drafted are available for download in MS Word or Adobe format.

March 2024 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in March 2024. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $30. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• Colombia – Protect human rights defenders!
• Democratic Republic of Congo – USA Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, stop USA mining companies from violating Congolese law!
• Israel – Comply with International Court of Justice ruling and allow aid to Gaza!
• Kuwait – Stop persecution of human rights activist Mohammad al-Barghash!
• Mexico – Don’t impede investigation into 2014 disappearance of 43 students!
• Malawi – Protect journalist Gregory Gondwe!

The letters we’ve drafted are available for download in MS Word or Adobe format.

Vigil Against Execution of William James Pye, Wed, May 20, 2024

Amnesty International USA Group #186 is holding a vigil on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm, at the entrance of the Augusta Judicial Center at the corner of Walton Way and James Brown Blvd (9th St.). We are witnessing against the State of Georgia’s intention to execute another prisoner.

Georgia’s warrant to execute William James Pye. begins that evening at 7 pm.

November 2022 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in November 2022. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $30. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• Algeria – Release Whistleblower Mohamed Benhlima
• Burundi – Release Human Rights Lawyer Tony Germain Nkina
• Egypt – Ailing Human Rights Lawyer Deprived of Health Care
• Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories – Palestinian Lawyer’s Detention Extended
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Release 10 Egyptian Nubian Men Detained After Peaceable Assembly

Vigil Against Execution of Virgil Delano Presnell, Jr., Tue, May 17, 2022

Amnesty International USA Group #186 is holding a vigil on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm, at the entrance of the Augusta Judicial Center at the corner of Walton Way and James Brown Blvd (9th St.). We are witnessing against the State of Georgia’s intention to execute another prisoner.

Georgia’s warrant to execute Virgil Delano Presnell, Jr. begins that evening at 7 pm.

February 2022 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in February 2022. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $25. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• Morocco – DETAINED JOURNALIST OMAR RADI MUST GET A FAIR TRIAL
• Russia – LAWYER’S MOTHER DETAINED IN CHECHNYA
• Tunisia – PARLIAMENTARIAN YASSINE AYARI FACING TRIAL BY MILITARY COURT
• United States – STOP U.S. ABUSES AGAINST HAITIAN PEOPLE
• United States – GRANT CLEMENCY TO LEONARD PELTIER, WHO HAS CONTRACTED COVID

August 2021 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in August 2021. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $25. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• Congo – Release human rights defenders, Elisée Lwatumba Kasonia and Eric Muhindo Muvumbu
• Haiti: Justice for slain journalist Diego Charles and activist Antoinette Duclaire and protection for their families
• Indonesia – Free pro-Mollucan Independence activists Pieter Likumahua, Alexander Workala and Benjamin Naene and drop charges against them
• Iran: Free Azerbaijani Turkic human rights defender Alireza Farshi DizajYekan
• Sri Lanka: Free prominent lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah, a prominent Sri Lankan lawyer who has been targeted for his work and advocacy for the rights of Muslim minorities in the country

May 2021 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in May 2021. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $25. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• Colombia – Stop poisoning environment in name of controlling of illicit crops
• Denmark: Stop pressuring Syrian refugees to return to Syria
• Egypt: Don’t execute Wael Tawadros, convicted of murder based on a coerced confession without legal assistance
• Honduras: Release members of  Comité Municipal por la Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos, CMDBCP, from pre-trial detention in dangerous conditions which has exceeded 19 months
• Indonesia: Release Soon Tabuni, a farmer suffering in jail for a Facebook post
• Pakistan: Free Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, on death row after conviction for blasphemy

Jan 20, Virtual Write for Rights

Update: Link to Register

Each year, Amnesty International encourages people to write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience and human rights causes in its Write for Rights campaign. Because of the pandemic, we can’t meet and do this together. Nevertheless, you can still visit the page and write and mail letters based on the instructions there.

On Wednesday, January 20, at 2 pm ET, we are planning a teleconference to allow Augusta, GA Amnesty International USA #186 group members to reintroduce themselves to each other after the lengthy separation imposed by social distancing, hear people read from the letters they’ve written to prisoners of conscience and listen to organizers from Amnesty International USA discuss Write for Rights and other activities of the organization.

In addition, if you live in the United States and you’d like the group to prepare for you pre-addressed, pre-stamped envelopes to reduce your workload, contact us to receive information on how to pay 15 USD. You’ll receive by mail 14 pre-addressed, pre-stamped (9 domestic, 5 international) envelopes. All you’ll need to do is write, fold, seal and send!

We encourage educators to participate. The Write for Rights program facilitates use of these materials in the classroom. Please contact us for more details.

December 2020 Packet of Appeal Letters

Here are the appeals which our Amnesty International group has chosen for a packet to be mailed out later in December 2020. If you want to receive these letters, simply pay $25. Your mailing address must be within the United States.

• Azerbaijan: Release human rights lawyer and activist, Elchin Mammad
• China: Release ethnic Kazakh writer Nagyz Muhammed
• Iraq: Produce disappeared lawyer Ali Jaseb
• Nigeria: Stop killings of #EndSARS protestors
• Paraguay: Protect indigenous land defender Bernarda Pesoa
• United States of America: Release asylum seekers from detention.