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Great News! Eviction order suspeded!
The Laranjeira Ñhanderu community can now stay on their ancestral lands, after a court decision suspended an eviction order until the necessary anthropological studies have been carried out to verify…
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Great News! Syrian prisoner held for for media interviews released!
Mohammed Najati Tayyara, a retired school teacher from Homs, was arrested on 12 May 2011 following media interviews he gave about human rights violations committed by Syrian security forces against…
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Great News! Federal court blocks Alabama execution!
Seventy-year-old Alabama death row prisoner Thomas Arthur has received a stay of execution from a federal court. He had been scheduled to be executed on the evening of 29 March…
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Great News! Prisoner Kimanus Wenda recieves medical treatment!
On 12 March, Kimanus Wenda traveled from Nabire prison to Jayapura, capital of Papua province, accompanied by his lawyer, to seek medical treatment for a suspected tumor in his stomach.
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Connecticut Abolishes the Death Penalty!
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed into law the repeal of Connecticut's death penalty, making his state the 17th, and the 5th in the last 5 years, to do away…
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Great News! Kuwaiti Teenager Held in Bahrain Released.
Kuwaiti teenager Ali Feifel Sahad al-Ali was released on 14 March 2012, after he was sentenced to one month in prison. He returned to Kuwait with his family the same…
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Great News! Professor Mohamed Zain Al-Abideen was released without charge on 4 March after being held for 15 days.
Mohamed Zain Al-Abideen, the Dean of the College of Higher Education at the University of Al Zaiem Al Azhari in Omdurman, was arrested on 20 February by National Intelligence and…
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Great News! Pro-reform activist Georges Moubayed was released at the end of January 2012.
Georges Moubayed, a jeweller aged 62, was abducted after leaving his house in the Jaramana district of the Syrian capital Damascus on 10 January 2012. It was not known where…
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Great News! Around 15 men detained in Riyadh, during a protest held on 16 December have been released.
Around 15 men detained in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, during a protest held on 16 December have been released. Around 12 were set free without charge after they were reportedly…
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Great News! José Daniel Ferrer GarcÃa Was Released Without Charge on 24 February.
Former prisoner of conscience José Daniel Ferrer GarcÃa told Amnesty International how he had been arrested in Havana on 21 February and held in police custody. He was transferred to…
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Great News! Mexican Human Rights Defender Released on Bail on 24 February.
On 24 February, at around 00:30, Lucila Bettina Cruz Velázquez was released on bail, following a court hearing in the afternoon of 23 February, in the 6th court of the…
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Great News! Student Activist Released Without Charge
Sudanese student Taj Alsir Jaafar was released without charge on 23 February 2012 after being detained by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) for almost two months. It…