Defend Their Freedom of Speech

Facebook, Twitter, blogging… we take our freedom of expression for granted. However, in countries around the world people are jailed for peacefully expressing their views or protesting injustices online. Take Amal Fathy, for instance, imprisoned in Egypt for a Facebook page describing her experience of sexual harassment. Or Raif Badawi, condemned to seven years of prison and 600 lashes for creating a website protesting the persecution of Saudi liberals.

We are Amnesty International, and we defend the right of people everywhere to peacefully express
their views. By inundating repressive governments with letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience like Amal and Raif, our members let these regimes know they are not forgotten. And our letters get results! High
school students Afonso S. Muatchipuculo, António J. Fernando, and Justino H. Valente, sentenced in an unfair trial, were just released from a detention facility in Angola. Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, was recently set free in Indonesia.

Be a free speech defender! Join Amnesty International Group 342 on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, at 7:20pm in Wegman’s Café, 50 Foundry Way (at Rt. 29) in Malvern, PA. For more info contact barbquin at gmail.com. Can’t come out that evening? Check out AIUSA’s urgent actions webpage and help liberate a prisoner. You too can be a human rights hero!