Thank you to each person who took the time to write letters of advocacy for the Amnesty International (AI) Write for Rights 2024 campaign. We know the actions work as a total of 18,341 letters were written and 2 of the featured cases have had positive outcomes.
Ana da Silva Miguel (also known as Neth Nahara) was released on December 25th when Angola’s President Joao Lourenço granted the social media commentator a pardon.
On January 20th, we learned that Native American activist Leonard Peltier’s sentence was commuted by U.S. President Biden hours before he left office. This commutation will allow Leonard to finish the remainder of his sentence under home confinement with his loved ones and community instead of behind bars.
If by any chance you received returned letters for Maryia Kalesnikava, Amnesty International recently learned that solidarity letters and letters for advocacy for her have been returned. We apologize for this inconvenience. Please use the following address instead:
Mariya Kalesnikava
C/o Amnesty International
FSM
Sonnenallee 221 C
12059 Berlin
Germany
Advocacy appeals for Mariya should be mailed to:
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus
C/o Embassy of Belarus in the United States Chargé d’Affaires Mr. Pavel Shidlovsky
1619 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20009
Email: usa@mfa.gov.by
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