Amnesty International USA
Appoints Renowned Human Rights Advocate
Larry Cox as Executive Director

Good News!

• Belarusian Prisoner of Conscience Professor Yury Bandazhevsky Freed
• Viet Nam: Amnesty International Hails Expected Release of Father Ly and Several Other Prisoners of Conscience
• Two Prisoners of Conscience in Mexico have been released and their charges removed. Isidro Baldenegro and Hermenegildo Rivas, two indigenous Rarámuris and Prisoners of Conscience were detained for 15 months in Chihuahua because of their defense of the Sierra Tarahumara forests.
• Leyla Zana and three other parliamentarians were released from prison in June by order of a Turkish appeals court. More than 400 AIUSA groups in the Northeast Region, and many others around the country, have campaigned intensively for the release of Zana and her colleagues
• New AI Group in Williamsburg/Greenpoint

Syria & Lebanon - Prisoners held incommunicado for over 12 years.

Four Lebanese have been held in Syrian prisons - completely isolated - since Oct 1990. Can you help and please send President Bashar Al-Assad a letter today?
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