Urgent Action Letters Posted ######  

JOIN IN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’s GLOBAL LETTER WRITING EFFORT with the letters our group members have written. Just link to them from this page. You may edit, date, print, sign, and mail one or more of these letters. We hope you do.

Before the 10th of next month, another set of letters will be available to send. Find more information on the letters here. You may also check out other actions.

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ALTERNATIVE TO MAILING LETTERS: You may review the Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) options of e-mailing or faxing instead of stamping envelopes and mailing. However, if you choose those options, our group cannot multiply them by mailing copies of your correspondence. See the Take Action page.

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CONTINUING ACTIONS

* Whatever your word processing program (Word, Works, Word Perfect or other), or its year, you should be able to open and adapt the letters below. They are in rich text format, readable by all the programs.

• Good news! Prisoner of Conscience Jabbar Savalan who called for peaceful protests before being imprisoned on fabricated charges was released on December 27, 2011: Learn more at our Focus Action page.
• Appeal to Governor of Missouri to commute the death sentence of Reggie Clemons who never killed the victims per the prosecution. You may use this letter. LI>Aging Father Nguyen Van Ly has spent almost two decades in prison for calling on Vietnamese authorities to respect freedom of expression and other human rights. Father Ly, a Catholic priest and publisher, is in very poor health and should never have been arrested in the first place. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience. One Letter

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LETTERS TO MEET URGENT NEEDS:

FYI's:
* Whatever your word processing program (Word, Works, Word Perfect or other), or its year, you should be able to open and adapt the letters below. They are in rich text format, readable by all those programs.
* The letter file sometimes contains two letters; at other times, only one letter.
* On occasion, you may have the option to delete or use carbon copy (cc) names and addresses in the letter(s) you print and mail. Sometimes you may find another cc possibility on the last page in the file.

• Bahrain Letter to Embassy: Leaders of the Bahrain Teachers Association, who appear to have been imprisoned, ill-treated and tortured because of the association’s calls for strikes during the protests in 2011. One Letter
  
  
• 212 11 Indonesia: Express concern for the congregation of a Church. They were intimidated by members of radical Islamist groups, and remain at risk of further intimidation and possible attacks One Letter
  
  
• UA 229 11 Belarus: The opposition presidential candidate was sentenced to prison for his peacefully expressed opinions. He fears for his life. Two Letters
  
  
• UA 342 11 Japan: Urge the Japanese minister not to resume death warrants. One Letter
  
  
• UA 4 12 Bahrain: Urge the immediate release of Prisoner Conscience who was detained for his non-violent criticism of the Bahraini authorities. Three letters
  
  
• UA 9 12 Indonesia: Urge action to address that Shi'a s village suffers threats and attacks by anti-Shi'a groups, and have not received adequate police protection. Two Letters
  
  

  FREEDOM WRITERS LETTERS:

  Follow the link to case(s) and sample ‘‘Freedom Writers’’ letters you may edit, print out, sign and mail each month. Find them here.

About Letters

The core of Group 361’s work is writing and sending Urgent Action letters each month. We distribute most of these letters pre-printed in packets to our members, who then sign and mail them individually.  Thanks to the efforts of our members, we are able to post letters so members and visitors can download and edit the letter or letters they choose to mail.

Each letter is based on a fact sheet summarizing the results of the investigations done by Amnesty International’s teams around the world.

Please let us know if you send one of these letters. We would like to add your mailing to our month’s count of letters sent. All letters are in Rich Text format which is compatible with your word processor.

If you are having problems downloading a file, contact Maureen.

Tips on writing and sending letters can be found in the writing guidelines for Urgent Actions from this link. To understand the impact of the letters, see  these Success Stories.

To participate in the letter campaign with the group, see [Will you help? ]. After you have contacted Carrie to receive Actions, you may submit letters for posting on the site to Maureen.

Get Info on Urgent Action Cases

Use the UA Number: Note the two alpha letters are short for Urgent Action -- ‘UA’ -- paired with a number and year  which allows you to locate fact sheets on the case. Our members write their letters from the researched fact sheets. Or, see updates on an UA case, by typing the number or name into a search box. For example, the number search might be worded  ‘‘Amnesty Public Index UA 320/07’’ and the name search, ‘‘Amnesty Public Index UA Fathi el-Jahmi’’. For your convenience, here's a link to Google: [http://www.google.com/.] 

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