[updated, 06 August and 24 July 2019] Contact the Minister of Foreign Affairs in your country; more campaign details.
Background
Requested Action
Model email
Recipient addresses
Background
The courts in Nigeria have ordered Sheikh Zakzaky’s release for urgent medical treatment abroad (5 August), however they remain in custody.
World-wide demonstrations continue to demand justice for the Sheikh and Mallimah Zeenah. Peaceful demonstrators in July in Abuja calling for the release of Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, Mallima Zeenah and all unjustly detained prisoners, were met with deadly violence from police and security forces. For more information please visit this page.
Requested Action
Please look at the five things you need to know and do alert, if you haven’t already. Those of you also wishing to contact the Minister of Foreign Affairs in your country can do so using the addresses below. A model email is also provided should you wish to use it. Please keep all correspondence polite.
Model Email
Subject: Immediate intervention in the deteriorating situation in Nigeria
Dear [insert the name of your Minister for Foreign Affairs here],
The continued violence used by the Nigerian authorities against peaceful, law abiding protestors calling for the release of Sheikh El-Zakzaky, must be stopped now. As many as 12 people were killed in July, including a senior police officer and a journalist, all killed by police fire.
I write to ask your office to make immediate interventions with the Nigerian authorities demanding they desist. Your office must seriously consider what punitive actions you can take unilaterally as well as part of international organisations, if necessary, in order to facilitate Nigeria’s compliance with basic human rights standards.
I trust you will make immediate representations.
I look forward to your response.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name]
Email addresses of recipients
Selected names and email addresses of Ministers of Foreign Affairs can be found below. Please contact us info@ihrc.org if you have trouble finding the details of your country’s Minister.
Australia
Senator Marise Payne
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Bangladesh
HE Mr. AK Abdul Momen, MP
Foreign Minister
Bolivia
Diego Pary
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Igor Crnadak
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Canada
The Hon. Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Finland
Pekka Haavisto
Minister for Foreign Affairs
France
Jean-Yves Le Drian
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development
India
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Minister of External Affairs
Indonesia
Retno Marsudi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Iran
H.E. Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ireland
Simon Coveney
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Senator Kamina Johnson-Smith
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
Malaysia
The Hon. Dato’ Saifuddin bin Abdullah
Minister of Foreign Affairs
anifah@kln.gov.my / pro.ukk@kln.gov.my
The Netherlands
Stef Blok
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Norway
Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Pakistan
Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
asif.na110@na.gov.pk / fax: 051-9207600
South Africa
Lindiwe Sisulu
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
Spain
Josep Borrell
Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation
Switzerland
Ignazio Cassis
Federal Councillor
Trinidad and Tobago
Dennis Moses
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Turkey
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
United Kingdom
Dominic Raab
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs fcocorrespondence@fco.gov.uk