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Good News! – Oman: Mahmoud al-Fazari Released (UA 167/15)
Omani national Mahmoud al-Fazari was released without charge on 6 August.
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Good News! – Sudan: Reverend Yat Michael and Reverend Peter Yen Released (UA 28/15)
Two South Sudanese pastors, Reverend Yat Michael and Reverend Peter Yen, were released on 5 August after being sentenced to time already served in Khartoum, Sudan. The two have been…
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Good News! – Myanmar: Media Workers Released (UA 213/14)
Five media workers have been released under a presidential amnesty in Myanmar. They had been serving two-year prison sentences for their peaceful journalistic activities.
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Good News! – Myanmar: Ba Thar, Kyaw Myint, Hla Myint and Kyaw Khin Released (UA 73/15)
Four Rohingya leaders in Myanmar have been released under a presidential amnesty. They had been imprisoned in connection with community protests in 2013.
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Good News! – Myanmar: U Sein Than Released (UA 218/14)
Community leader U Sein Than, who had been sentenced to two years in prison in Myanmar for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly,…
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Good News! – Chad: Djeralar Miankeol Released (UA 138/15)
Djeralar Miankeol, Chadian land rights activist and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, was released on 28 July. The Moundou Court of Appeal overturned an earlier High Court verdict that had…
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Good News! – Bahrain: Sayed Jamil Kadhem Released (UA 40/15)
Sayed Jamil Kadhem was released on 27 July after completing his six-month sentence.
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Good News! – Macedonia: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in the Reception Center for Foreigners “Gazi Baba” Released (UA 46/15)
The Reception Center for Foreigners “Gazi Baba” has been closed. This brings an end to the detention of hundreds of refugees and migrants, in inhumane and degrading conditions. The last…
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Good News! – Gambia: Alagie Abdoulaye Released (UA 156/15)
Alagie Abdoulaye Ceesay, managing director of the Gambian Radio Station Teranga FM, has been released on 13 July.
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Good News! – China: Guo Bin and Yang Zhangqing Released (UA 137/15)
Two activists associated with a prominent anti-discrimination NGO continue to be held in a detention center in Henan province. They have been detained on suspicion of ‘illegal business operations’, but…
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Good News! – Bahrain: Dr Sa’eed Mothaher Habib al-Samahiji Released (UA 172/14)
Dr Sa'eed Mothaher Habib al-Samahiji was released on 1 July. He had completed his one-year sentence.
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Good News! – Russian Federation: Mikhail Feldman, Dmitry Fonarev and Oleg Savvin Released (UA 254/14)
Oleg Savvin, Mikhail Feldman and Dmitriy Fonarev, who have spent more than a year in detention for raising the German flag over an official building in Kaliningrad on 4 March…