By Eilidh Carmichael (From Seeds February – March 2025)
Eilidh Carmichael shares some positive news about an Amnesty International case that AUC members have campaigned on in the past.
Church members and friends have written Write for Rights letters on behalf of Marielle Franco’s family, and Eilidh Macpherson, Campaigns Manager (Individuals and Communities at Risk) for Amnesty International UK, has written to say:
In 2018 we campaigned, as part of Write for Rights, for Marielle Franco’s family. Marielle was a Brazilian activist who was fatally shot in a hit and run in 2018. For six years, the police investigation into Marielle’s death was shrouded in secrecy. It was reported that the bullets that killed Marielle were from a batch bought by the federal police and, what’s more, President Bolsonaro himself had been pictured with one of the murder suspects. You and thousands of others took action, and finally there has been a breakthrough in her case. In October 2024, six years after her death, Marielle’s killers were sentenced to 59 and 78 years in prison.
Thank you for taking action, and showing that when we come together, we can get justice.
