Write for Rights
Cases
Cases
The 2022 Write for Rights cases
(extra points for answering more than one)
Who is Vahid Afkari?
Who is Aleksandra Skochilenko?
Who is Shahnewaz Chowdhury?
Who is Chow Hang-tung?
Who is Yren Rotela & Mariana Sepúlveda?
Who is Joanah Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri & Netsai Marova?
The number of Write for Rights successes in total out of 169 individuals (2021)
What is 127?
The two types of Write for Rights letters
What is an appeal letter?
What is a message of solidarity?
This person is said to be the one surviving isolation in the US for longest - how many years?
What is 43 years (and 10 months)?
Ales Bialiatski, a prominent human rights defender in Belarus, was imprisoned on November 24 2011 for four and a half years. Amnesty International believed his imprisonment was intended to prevent him working to defend human rights - how many Write for Rights letters was sent for him?
- 20.000
- 40.000
- 65.000
What is 40.000?
The year Amnesty International initiated Write for Rights
What is 2001?
The name of the person surviving isolation for longest in the US
Who is Albert Woodfox?
The name of the person from a Write for Rights campaign who received most messages from activists around the world
Who is Moses Akatugba?
The number of countries participating
- more than 28
- more than 130
- more than 170
What is more than 170?
In 2018, the Iranian woman Yasaman Aryani was sentenced 16 years in prison for removing her hijab in public - what is one of the primary Human Rights articles being violated?
What is Article 18?
Freedom of Religion or Belief
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) says we all have the right to our own beliefs, to have a religion, have no religion, or to change it.
The number of messages written for the person involved in the Write for Rights campaign which received most messages
- 300.000
- 500.000
- 800.000
What is 800.000?
The number of Danish students participating in 2021
- more than 2000
- more than 8000
- more than 30.000
What is more than 8000?
Zhang Zhan traveled to Wuhan to report on the Covid-19 situation and about imprisonement of independent journalists, consequently she was imprisoned and tortured - what Human Rights articles are violated among others?
What is Article 5?
Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
What is Article 19?
Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression
The number of people Write for Rights campaigns have succeeded in freeing from wrongful imprisonment
- 29
- 48
- 61
What is 48 people?
The total number of signatures, e-mails, tweets, SMSs, letters and drawings sent for Write for Rights in 2021
- 900.000
- 2.3 million
- 4.6 million
What is 4.6 million?