The Urgent Action Network
Letters from Prisoners
"Government officials smell trouble when appeals start arriving, a name and a stamp from overseas is what counts....Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
Dr. Tasier Mohamed Ali of Sudan in a message to Urgent Action participants. He was the subject of UA269/89 and UA 34/93.
"We write to appreciate your commendable support for us during our long period of detention. We understand that as soon as you became aware of our arrest, you mobilized your members all over the world., in order to put pressure on our government. It was comforting to know that people were talking about us out there. Some of us spent long months in the hospitals and either got well or died. On their behalf, too, we write this appreciation."
Grace Yawa Kwei and Stanley Nseke (Cameroon, UA 113/98, 1999)
". . . Serving 5 years and 7 months imprisonment, I have experienced electric torture, and no-sleep torture for 4 days, beating, kicking everytime I was arrested. . . Your efforts and prayers saved my life and thanks to your support I can have the opportunity to live as a human being. Thank you very much."
Lee Shin-bom, former prisoner of conscience in Korea, to the UA Network.
"We have received 68 letters and more arrive every day. The campaign is fantastic! Congratulations!"
The Consejo Indigenista Misionario (UA 321/99, Mexico, 1999)