“Freedom for Christmas” was the theme of a November event supporting Amnesty International that had significant youth participation at St. James Anglican church in Morrisburg, Ont., about 80 km southeast of Ottawa..
Seventeen teenagers and thirteen adults wrote a total of 69 letters urging freedom, fair trials or improvement in living conditions for prisoners of conscience. One letter went to the High Commissioner of Malaysia after the church heard reports that a group of child refugees from Burma were about to be expelled
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