You are employed by the National Human Rights Defenders Coalition and your job as the Communications Officer is to ensure that all members (NGO and independents) receive timely and accurate information that can help them in their work - including information about security incidents with other members, trends in threats and attacks, etc. Sharing information about security incidents can have serious impacts, so all information must be well verified.
Main requisites
- A good explanation of what happened, including how they found out about it (i.e. the Panic Button)
- Why do they think that the disappearance was connected to the fact that the person is an HRD?
- Has the HRD given consent for the information about the incident to be communicated widely?
- Is there any risk in naming the HRD in the communication?
Hard mode
- Why do they think that the disappearance or detention actually has relevance to the security of other members of the Coalition?
- What response plan has been set up? Who is involved? How would the email fit into other responses that are being planned?
- Is there any risk to the recipients of the email in receiving this information?