Here’s a sample letter you can send to the Hungarian embassy in your country. To maximise the impact, put it in your own words.
Dear Ambassador,
I am writing to protest in the strongest possible terms at the imprisonment since 8 October 2010 of Dr Agnes Gereb in a maximum security prison, and the recent extension of this term for a further 60 days. I would like to add my voice to the many calling for Agnes’ immediate release.
Dr Gereb is a renowned doctor and midwife, respected worldwide for her work on behalf of pregnant women. She has championed the right of women to choose how they give birth and has herself attended many thousands of successful home births. I understand that she has been charged with negligent malpractice and is currently detained in a maximum security prison where she has been inhumanely treated. She recently appeared in court shackled and bleeding from a wound caused by her restraints and has been subjected to strip searches.
To imprison a doctor and midwife in this way is frankly disgraceful in an EU member state and is unacceptable in any civilised country which claims to respect human rights and the rule of law.
Please make my concerns known to the Hungarian government. For your information, I shall also be contacting my MP and my MEP to take up this case.
Yours sincerely,
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