# Amnesty asks for out of office message donations to help free Snowden

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/12/30/amnesty-asks-office-message-donations-help-free-snowden/
- Published: 2016-12-30T09:01:23+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**[Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/) is asking people to donate
their out of office replies over the Christmas and New Year period, to help get 
a pardon for Edward Snowden.**

 

The campaign is an initiative from Amnesty International Sweden and has been developed
with advertising agency [Garbergs](http://garbergs.se/). It asks participants to
replace their ordinary voice message and out of office email reply with a personal
message from Snowden, who is facing charges in the US for revealing mass scale global
surveillance of private communications.

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The replacement details the Snowden case with a message from Snowden explaining 
how every communication people make is watched and recorded. There are also messages
that can be posted as a Facebook update, an email footer, a blog entry, or a tweet.

 

[⌊snowden out of office⌉⌊snowden out of office⌉[

 

Amnesty is urging Obama to pardon Snowden before he leaves office on 20^(th) January.
The messages are available on a dedicated campaign site: [snowdenoutofoffice.com](https://snowdenoutofoffice.com/),
where there is also a petition launched in partnership with the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) and the [Pardon Snowden](https://pardonsnowden.org/) campaign, demanding
his immediate pardon.

 

Johanna Westeson, discrimination officer at Amnesty International. said:

 

> “Whistleblowers across the world must be protected, and indiscriminatory mass 
> surveillance of personal data must stop as a matter of urgency.”

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