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.
January 2021:
- US: Close Guantanamo
- US: Release Native American activist Leonard Peltier (more info)
- US: Break the Cycle of Violence Act (more info)
- US: Environmental lawyer under house arrest (more info)
December 2021:
November 2021:
- Sri Lanka: Minority lawyer detained (more info)
- US: Grant protected status to migrants from Cameroon
- Focus case: Renewed call for release of Mohammed al-Qahtani
October 2021:
September 2021:
- Burundi: Lawyer gets 5-year prison sentence (more info)
- Honduras: Water defenders in jail (more info)
- Cuba: Release peaceful protestors (more info)
July 2021:
- Focus case: Renewed call for release of Mohammed al-Qahtani
- US: Break the Cycle of Violence Act (more info)
- China: Arbitrary detention in Xinjiang (more info)
- US: ICE indefinite detention (Good news! Maura has been released!)
June 2021:
- Saudi Arabia: Imminent execution of Young Protestor (more info)
- Afghanistan: Women’s role in peace talks (more info)
- Colombia: Crackdown against protestors (more info)
- Thailand: Crackdown against protestors (more info)
May 2021:
- US: Break the Cycle of Violence Act (more info)
- US: End for-profit immigration detention facilities (more info)
- US: Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act (more info)
- President Biden: Make sure world has access to COVID-19 vaccines
April 2021:
- Focus case: Letter to Secretary Blinken (reference to press release)
- Focus case: Letter to Assistant Secretary Hood
- Iraq: Detained journalists in Kurdistan region (more info)
- China: Uyghur businessman mistreated in detention (more info)
March 2021:
- Saudi Arabia: Drop charges against women’s rights advocate (more info)
- Saudi Arabia: Health concern for 83-year alleged terrorist sympathizer (more info)
- Indonesia: Environmental conservationists detained (more info)
- Iran: Labor activist detained (more info)
- Egypt: Student detained incommunicado (more info)
February 2021:
- Russia: release opposition leader Aleksei Navalny (more info)
- Nigeria: Singer on death row (more info)
- US: Serious health concern for asylum seeker in ICE detention (Success! Steven Tendo was released)
January 2021:
- China: COVID-19 journalist detailed and ill-treated (more info)
- US: Stop federal executions in Trump’s last weeks (more info)
- Egypt: Human rights leaders being prosecuted
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