E-mail alert wins its first success
Posted on 26 Oct 2000 at 11:06
Amnesty International is claiming a first success for its e-mail alert system for human rights abuses.
According to Janice Christensen, campaign director for Amnesty's U.S. branch, the case involved a Kurdish activist, Sehmuz Temel. He was released just a few days after Amnesty members began sending e-mail to Turkish authorities.
Amnesty claims that Sehmuz Temel has repeatedly suffered torture in the past, from which he is now disabled.
More than 1,000 e-mail messages called for Sehmuz Temel's release in the first 10 hours of the campaign and more than 2,200 in 48 hours, Christensen said.
"The big difference is e-mail is so much faster," said Janice Christensen. "If we had done a mail campaign, we probably would have gotten 3,000 letters. But it would have taken 10 days to happen. This took two."
Author: Alun Williams
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