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Dear friends,
Read this short message from Albert Woodfox:
“My name is Albert Woodfox and I spent over 40 years, most of it in solitary confinement, in Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, once one of the bloodiest prisons in the United States. I was imprisoned for a murder I did not commit due to my activism for reform against the brutal prison conditions and due to my membership in the Black Panther Party. On Feb. 19, 2016, my 69th birthday, I was released. Had it not been for Amnesty International supporters like you writing letters on my behalf, I might still be unjustly imprisoned. I made a promise that if I would ever go free, I would be a voice for others enduring this nightmare of being wrongly incarcerated.” Join Albert and help free Mahadine by participating in Amnesty’s 2017 Write for Rights campaign. Tadjadine Mahamat Babouri, known as Mahadine, criticized the government of Chad in a series of Facebook videos for alleged misuse of public funds. Mahadine has been arrested and tortured for posting these Facebook videos — please take action now and ask for his immediate release. Within days of posting the videos to Facebook, Mahadine was snatched from the street in broad daylight by a group of men believed to be intelligence officers. As a father of seven, he was beaten, electrocuted and chained up for weeks, and not given food or water. Mahadine has sustained serious injuries from his torture and contracted tuberculosis from poor prison conditions. It’s been over a year since Mahadine was arrested, and with his failing health we cannot delay our actions for his release. Luc, take action now and ask for Mahadine’s immediate release. You freed Albert Woodfox from a human rights nightmare. Please do the same for Mahadine by joining Write for Rights. Thank you for taking action, | ||
 Margaret Huang
Executive Director, Amnesty Intenational
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