Poland 'writes for rights' 
                
                    
                        PR dla Zagranicy
                    
                    
                        Michał Owczarek
                        
                        11.12.2017 14:30
                    
                                 
                
                    
                        
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                                            AI Write For Rights event
                                        
 
                                    
                    
                
                
                    Poles wrote nearly 240,000 letters in this year’s Amnesty International (AI) “Write for Rights” marathon over the weekend, the Polish branch of the human rights organisation reported. 
                
                
                    
                        
Photo: PAP/Adam WarżawaPAP/Adam Warżawa
                     
                
                
                
               
                
                         The campaign was started by Polish activists in 2001. 
“This year we are writing, among others, for Turkey’s Amnesty International director who, as it happens, has been imprisoned there for criticising the government,” AI's Michał Groblewski said.
Michał Owczarek reports.