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Madison, WI USA

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Donations are used to fund ongoing work for our Prisoners of Conscience, cover cost of action tables at various events throughout the year, and events the group sponsors and cosponsors. Thank you.

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21 June @ Alpine Valley, East Troy WI
Stop by our action table at the Phish concert.
18 & 19 July @ Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI
Amnesty International will have an action table at the Dave Matthews Band concerts.
30 July @ Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee, WI,
Amnesty International is a sponsor of Warped Tour, stop by for band signings, etc...

Mexico -- Barbara Italia Mendez
The Gambia -- "Chief" Ebrima Hennah
Burma/Myanmar -- U Win Tin RELEASED 23 September 2008
China -- Tiananmen Square Mothers
China -- Internet Censorship, Shi Tao
China -- Bu Dongwei, summer Olympics case RELEASED
Burma/Myanmar -- Mother and School Teacher, Ma Khin Khin Leh, RELEASED 21 February 2009

Madison Local Group case: Mahamed el Gharani - Guantanamo Bay

RELEASED!! from Guantanamo Bay 11 June 2009
Thank you to all of you who helped us with this case over the past 3 years. We greatly appreciate it as does Mohamed.

Amnesty International Press Release
Other links for information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8096402.stm
http://www.reprieve.org.uk/casework_mohammedelgharani.htm
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/06/11/guantanamos-youngest-prisoner-released-to-chad/

Very Brief Background
Mohamed el Gharani, was born in Chad, brought up in Saudi Arabia and moved to Pakistan for better economic and educational opportunities. It is believed he was 14 years old when in October 2001 in Karachi, Pakistan, he was detained when police raided the mosque where he was praying.
Mohamed was held in prison in Pakistan until the end of November 2001. He was charged with entering Pakistan with an illegal passport. He then was transferred into US custody in Kandahar, Afghanistan and then to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in January 2002. He was one of the first "enemy combatants" transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
Upon arrival at Guantanamo Bay, he was allegedly severely beaten again and threatened with torture that "would be worse than anything he had been through in Pakistan."
His body is apparently covered in scars caused by the torture and beatings, his teeth are said to be falling out because of neglect and his tongue is apparently cracked as a result of dehydration. He tried to commit suicide twice in 2006.

Amnesty International USA's Stop Torture campaign

"Before I came to Camp V, I had hope. After this I lost all hope." Mohammed el Gharani.

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Mohammed el-Gharani RELEASED from Guantanamo Bay

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Amnesty International, Madison, WI, USA, Group 139 case

Bring Barbara Italia Mendez's perpetrators to Justice

Release Prisoner of Conscience

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Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.

Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Better to Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness

AI Group 139 Madison, WI USA

AI Group 139
Madison, WI USA