Harrow College students support human rights

Some of the students from the ESOL Preparation for Further Study chose to spend their last ILT session designing greeting cards for Amnesty International's Greeting Cards Campaign 2008.

The purpose of the campaign is to send a friendly message to people who are in danger or have been unjustly imprisoned around the world. Nimao Mohamoud created a card to send to the Gambian journalist Ebrima B. Manneh who has been imprisoned probably because he downloaded a BBC story from the internet that was considered critical of the Gambian government. Nimao said that she decided to write to Ebrima B. Manneh because she didn't think it was fair that he had been imprisoned just because he tried to speak freely.

Carlos Torres chose to write to another imprisoned journalist; Cuban Pablo Pachelo Avila, who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 20 years in prison for criticising the Cuban government. Carlos is from the same part of Cuba where Avila is imprisoned and said that he wanted to write to Avila so that he would know that people from Cuba had not forgotten about him.

Amnesty's Greeting Cards Campaign runs until 31st January 2009. For more information go to www.amnesty.org.uk

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