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With help from you and others in Amnesty's millions-strong global human rights movement, we've scored several key victories in the past few months.

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Your passion and support have helped Amnesty International achieve extraordinary human rights victories in the past few months. I wanted to share these achievements with you, and also say thank you — you've proven once again that Amnesty saves lives:

* You demanded justice for American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, who was given an eight-year prison sentence on trumped up charges of "espionage." She was freed from prison in May.
* Thanks in part to your appeals, Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Shadi Sadr was released on bail in July after 11 days in custody. She was beaten and abducted in the streets of Iran, targeted for her work as a human rights defender.
* You spoke up for Troy Davis, who remains sentenced to death in Georgia for a crime he says he didn't commit. In June, he received a stay of execution. And in August, the Supreme Court of the United States granted him the chance to present his strong claims of innocence.

Together we have built a powerful global movement. We've got momentum, and we can't stop now.

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Our goal is to recruit 10,000 new members this month to help Amnesty carry out its biggest ever Global Write-a-thon. Through the Write-a-thon — the world's largest annual grassroots human rights event — thousands of Amnesty International members come together for one great purpose: to free prisoners of conscience from jail and bring brutal human rights abuses to an end.
Freedom. Thanks to you and Amnesty International. Ma Khin Khin Leh released.

The 2008 Write-a-thon helped secure the release of Ma Khin Khin Leh, a young mother accused of helping to plan a demonstration in Myanmar and sentenced to life in prison. Amnesty members wrote tens of thousands of letters seeking her release.

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Your letters, phone calls and faxes on behalf of people like Roxana, Shadi, Troy and Ma Khin Khin Leh kept them going in their darkest hours and gave them the faith to carry on.

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Sincerely,

Larry Cox

Larry Cox
Executive Director
Amnesty International USA