On this page, we are posting cases for which we did letter writing actions at our meetings. Sample letters for each case are also included. Please take a few minutes to write one or a few! It is always preferred to write a letter by hand in your own words (but you can use the sample letter as a guidance). However, if you are in a rush, just signing a sample letter is also useful.

July 2020:

• Governor Wolf: Release families from immigration detention
• US: Justice in Policing Act for police accountability
• US: Prevent deportation of asylum seeker and human rights activist
• Focus case: Ask E.U. to intervene at G20 in Saudi Arabia
• Focus case: Ask companies to raise human rights at B20 summit in Saudi Arabia

May 2020:

• PA equity task force for COVID response (more info)
• South Sudan: Minor faces death penalty
• Focus case: Release Mohammad al-Qahtani (more info)

April 2020:

• US: COVID-19 risk in immigration detention (more info)
• Saudi Arabia: Palestinians facing unfair trial (more info)
• Focus case: Business between Saudi Arabia and Pittsburgh must acknowledge human rights (backgound info here and here)

March 2020:

• India: Right to peaceful protests (more info)
• EU: Treat migrants with dignity (more info)
• Focus case: Business between Saudi Arabia and Pittsburgh must acknowledge human rights (more info on the business side here)

February 2020:

• PA House: Allow vote on common-sense gun reform
• US Senate: Stop the Muslim Ban (more info)
• Focus case: Release ACPRA co-founders (more info)

January 2020:

• Myanmar: Imprisoned members of satirical poetry troupe (more info)
• UAE: Blogger held in dire conditions (more info)
• Turkey: Free author Ahmet Altan (more info)

December 2019:

• 2019 Write for Rights campaign

November 2019:

• Arizona: Immigrant aid worker charged
  (success: defendant was acquitted!)
• Texas: Potentially innocent black man faces death penalty
  (update: execution has been suspended)
• Focus case: International Saudi investment conference

October 2019:

• US: Humanitarian standards in border facilities
• Bangladesh: Education denied for Rohingya (more info)
• Focus case: Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs

September 2019:

• US: Background checks for gun sales (more info)
• Brazil: Protect indigenous lands in Amazon (more info)
• Focus case: Letter to Minister of Interior

July 2019:

• Focus Case: Letter to Saudi Ambassador to the US
• USA: New Asylum Rule violates human rights

June 2019:

• Focus Case: Letter to King of Saudi Arabia
• Thailand: Prosecution of labor right advocates (more info)
• Guatemala: Indigenous people harassed by mining interests (more info)

April 2019:

• Mozambique: Journalist detained without charges (more info)
• Philippines: Critical journalist arrested repeatedly (more info)
• Azerbaijan: Activist arrested on fabricated charges (more info)

March 2019:

• Iran: Women’s right lawyer faces long imprisonment (more info)
• Iran: Wildlife conservationists face death penalty (more info)
• Zimbabwe: Opposition members arrested (more info)

February 2019:

• Somaliland: Poet arrested for calling for government reform (more info)
• US: Unfair treatment of imprisoned Native American activist (more info)
• Cote d’Ivoire: Online activist subjected to torture (more info)

January 2019:

• Mexico: New law would expand mandatory pretrial detention (more info)
• Bahrain: Deported Bahraini at risk of ill-treatment (more info)
• China: Persecution of Christian house church members (more info)