"Nowruz Mobarak" Means We Stand With You

DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER TONIGHT’S MEETING IS CANCELED. Please join us for our next meeting on April 18.

On March 21, people in Iran will celebrate Nowruz, or Persian New Year, by wishing one another Nowruz mobarak (Happy New Year!). For Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and her husband Arash Sadeghi, however, Nowruz
will usher in yet another year of imprisonment following an unfair trial. Golrokh was sentenced to six years for writing a fictional story about the horrific practice of execution by stoning. Arash was sentenced
to 19 years in Evin prison for his peaceful human rights activities. During his detention he has been subjected to severe torture.

We are Amnesty International, and we champion the rights of prisoners of conscience worldwide,
individuals who have been imprisoned solely for the peaceful expression of their views. We mobilize the public to flood government officials with appeals on behalf of the prisoners. And these letters get results!
In February, Venezuelan prisoner of conscience Villca Fernández finally received medical care after having been denied treatment since June 2017. More recently, false charges were dropped against Equatorial
Guinean cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé, and he was released from prison.

You are cordially invited to attend the meetings of Amnesty International USA Group 342. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm in Wegmans Café, 50 Foundry Way (at Rt. 29), Malvern, PA 19355. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Read about our activities on our blog. At our March 21 meeting, we will celebrate Nowruz by sending greeting cards to seven prisoners of conscience in Iran. We will provide cards and postage. Come join the party!

Can't make it to our March meeting? Visit the Nowruz Action page and read about the Iranian prisoners. Send appeals on their behalf. Or, check out the urgent action page. You can free a prisoner or save a life with just a click of your mouse.

Nowruz mobarak to you!