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Amnesty International: Group 141

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Welcome to Amnesty International Group 141
in Orange, California

Since its beginning in 1982, Group 141 has worked on behalf of adopted prisoners in Benin, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Somalia, South Korea, and Tibet. Group 141's current adopted prisoner is Cho Nwe Oo, a first-year university student at Yangon University in Myanmar (formerly Burma) sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for participating in a peaceful demonstration in April 1995. Amnesty International considers her a prisoner of conscience and has called for her immediate and unconditional release. In addition to working on the case for our adopted prisoner, Group 141 is a member of the South Asia Regional Action Network (SARAN), Actions on Regional Action Networks usually concern general human rights violations rather than individual cases, and last only a few months. The group also does work on refugees and the death penalty.

New members are always welcome!
 The group meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at P.J. Mead's Coffeehouse at 135 S. Cambridge Street (just south of Chapman Street) in Orange.

For further information contact the group coordinator Jeannine Christensen at (714) 771-2886

Group 141 is one of many local affiliates of Amnesty International USA, which in turn is the United States national section of the worldwide Amnesty International movement. Founded in 1961, AI works impartially for the release of all prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, and an end to torture and executions (for further information, see the brief history and description and the text of the Statute of AI).

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