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Zhang is in prison for reporting on COVID-19
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Write For Rights is Amnesty International’s largest annual letter writing campaign. People like you around the world write letters on behalf of individuals who need urgent help, like Zhang Zhan—pictured right—who is in prison for reporting on COVID-19. Through the power of collective grassroots action, your letters will help convince government officials to free Zhang, to free the other individuals unjustly imprisoned, and to seek justice for past human rights abuses.

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Jailed for defending
a sacred river

BERNARDO CAAL XOL
Guatemala

Harassed for exposing
Israeli violence

JANNA JIHAD
Occupied Palestinian Territories

Taken at 15 and
never seen again

CIHAM ALI
Eritrea

Facing a life sentence
for peaceful protests

RUNG PANUSAYA
Thailand

Locked away for
defending freedom

MOHAMED BAKER
Egypt

Attacked for defending
LGTBI & Women’s Rights

SPHERE
Ukraine

Facing charges for protesting police violence

IMOLEAYO MICHAEL
Nigeria

Teen beaten, electrocuted,
and jailed

MIKITA ZALATAROU
Belarus

Shot while protesting violence against women

WENDY GALARZA
Mexico

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