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The Italy Innocence Project, founded in 2013, is a non-profit organization that studies issues related to wrongful convictions in Italy and is part of the Law Department of the University of Roma.

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Amanda Knox, a former American student who was accused and then acquitted of the murder of her roommate British student Meredith Kercher and visits Italy to speak at the Criminal Justice Festival, arrives at Milan's Linate airport, Italy, June 13, 2019.
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Before she arrived in Italy, Knox posted a photo on Instagram appearing to show her hanging from a cliff, saying she created her \"own inspirational workplace poster\" because she felt \"frayed.\"

\"Hang in there!\" she wrote.

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3 Days till I return to Italy for the first time since leaving prison. Feeling frayed, so I made my own inspirational workplace poster. \"Hang in there!\" Just imagine I'm a kitten.

A post shared by Amanda Knox (@amamaknox) on Jun 9, 2019 at 7:24pm PDT

She also penned an essay published on Medium Wednesday discussing her interaction with the public amid intense media scrutiny. Entitled \"Your Content, My Life,\" Knox called on media outlets to be \"compassionate,\" \"brave,\" and to \" treat its subjects like the human beings they are.\"

\"Someone’s life may make a great story, but it’s still their life,\" she wrote.

\"Amanda
Daniele Mascolo/Reuters
Amanda Knox, a former American student who was accused and then acquitted of the murder of her roommate British student Meredith Kercher visits Italy to speak at the Criminal Justice Festival, arrives at Milan's Linate airport, Italy, June 13, 2019.
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Knox was a 20-year-old college student studying abroad in Italy when she was accused of murdering her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, in November 2007. After a long judicial ordeal, which involved two appeal court trials and two Supreme Court decisions, Knox, along with Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend at the time, were finally acquitted of murder in 2015.

Knox left Italy immediately after the acquittal and has not returned to the country.

\"PHOTO:
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PHOTO: Amanda Knox, the study abroad student who was accused in Italy of the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, is standing up for other women as host of her own docuseries, "The Scarlet Letter Reports."
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Rudy Guede was found guilty of Kercher's murder in a separate trial in 2008 and is serving a sentence of 16 years.

Martina Cagossi, a criminal lawyer and one of the founders of The Italy Innocence Project, told ABC News that she met Knox at a conference in the U.S. and said Knox had shown interest in her organization.

ABC News' Ben Gittleson contributed to this report.

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