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.

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

December 2020:

• 2020 Write for Rights campaign

November 2020:

• US: Rate of federal executions increasing (more info)
• Nigeria: Police brutality against protestors (more info)
• PA: No impunity for police misconduct (more info)

October 2020:

• US: Release families from ICE facilities afflicted by COVID-19
• Greece: Former residents of Moria refugee camp need help
• Focus case: Ask Saudi King to release activists on occasion of G20

September 2020:

• PA: Ask Gov. Wolf to stop police violations against BLM protesters
• US: Suspend federal executions
• Focus case: Congressional letter calling for release of prisoners in Saudi Arabia

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)