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Friday, February 12. 1988/University Daily Kansan
Local members of Amnesty will write for human rights
By Jay A. Cohen
By Jay A. Cohen Special to the Kansan
To open a prison cell with a piece of paper, amid armed guards in a foreign country, is a difficult task. But it is one that will be attempted tomorrow by the Lawrence chapter of Armendy International.
The event is what the group's president, Frank Housh, hopes will be Lawrence's first Write-A-Thon for Human Rights.
Amnesty members will gather at the Glass Onion, 642 W. 12th; from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., they will write letters on behalf of incarcerated men, women and children around the world whom Amnesty International has designated "prisoners of conscience."
To be so designated, prisoners must be in jail solely because of their "ethnic origins or beliefs, provided they have neither used nor advocated violence."
The national office in New York sends names and background information, Housh said, and then Amnesty members write to government and prison officials. The letters ask for fair trials or a prisoner's release or simply express concern. Letters are also written to the prisoners themselves.
"When I was a member of the Wichita Adoption Group, we got a letter from one prisoner saying 'Please don't write me anymore,'" said Semie Rogers, Wichita freshman. "But you told he we really glad we had . . . there was just something in the way it was written, you knew. The national office said the prison officials had probably forced him to write it and told us to keep writing."
An Amnesty adoption group adopts one prisoner, unlike campus groups, which write on behalf of numerous prisoners.
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She doesn't know whether the prisoner was ever freed.
Richard E. Levy, an associate professor of law who specializes in international law, said, "It would be naive to assume that every person and every letter will cause the release of a prisoner. But Amnesty International's activities are very significant in the long-term development of human rights. And they have had some notable individual successes."
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Housh has no doubts about the effectiveness of the letters or the importance of small groups such as the one in Lawrence.
"Thirty people here, 30 people there, it adds up." Houss says. "There are over half a million members worldwide. Now just imagine when all those people write a number of letters. . . . There's nothing more powerful than world opinion."
Write-A-Thon participants will ask sponsors to pledge an optional amount of money — $1 is suggested — for each letter written, to a maximum of 10 letters. Twenty percent of the funds raised will go to the London-based international organization. The rest will go to the Lawrence's Campus Group, which is financed in part by the Student Senate.
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