URGE CONGRESS TO HELP PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS IN ERITREA!
Representatives Mark Kirk, Mark Udall, Trent Franks and Jim
Marshall are sponsoring a joint letter from members of
the U.S. Congress to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
asking her to address serious concerns about human rights
with authorities in Eritrea. Please ask your Representative
in Congress to join in signing the letter.
TAKE ACTION!
Contact your Representative's office today! Urge him
or her to sign on to the letter
sponsored by Congressmen Kirk, Udall,
Franks and Marshall. Because the letter will only be
open for signatures for a few weeks, please contact
your Representative
soon!
If you're not sure who your Congressional Representative
is, you can find out on the AIUSA website at:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.goJTI0OvElH/b.953517/k.7443/Your_Elected_Officials/siteapps/advocacy/search.aspx
HERE'S WHAT TO DO:
1) Call your Representative by dialing the Congressional
switchboard at: 202-224-3121.
2) Ask for a staff person responsible for human rights
or international affairs. Get his/her name.
3) Tell him or her that you are a member of Amnesty
International: a Nobel-prize-winning, grassroots
human rights organization
with over 300,000 members in the United States.
4) Inform them of the Dear Colleague letter sponsored
by Congressmen Mark Kirk, Mark Udall, Trent Franks
and Jim Marshall
5) Note that Eritrea has committed serious violations
against a wide range of rights including the right
to freedom of
expression and freedom of religion. Many of Eritrea's
leading journalists
have been detained without charge for over five years,
simply for having called for peaceful political change.
One of them, prisoner of conscience Fessahaye Joshua
Yohannes, co-editor of the weekly newspaper Setit,
is reported to have
died in detention in January.
6) Urge your Representative to sign his or her name
to the letter. They can do so by contacting Jeff
Phillips
in Congressman
Kirk's office at 225-4835 or Jennifer Barrett in
Congressman Udall's office at 225-2161.
Tricia
Redeker Hepner, Ph.D.
Eritrea Country Coordinator
Amnesty International, USA
