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Harassmant of a Peasant Farmer and His Family Stopped in Brazil (UA 005/09)
Jose Luis da Silva, Severina dos Santos Silva and their family are currently receiving protection after numerous threats to...
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Usra al-Hussein Released from Incommunicado Detention in Syria (UA 261/08)
Usra al-Hussein was released on July 18 after spending nearly a year in incommunicado detention without charge or trial. Her...
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Human Rights Defender Released on Bail in Iran (UA 193/09)
Human rights defender Shadi Sadr was released on bail on July 28 after being abducted on July 17 in Tehran by men believed...
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North Carolina Racial Justice Act Becomes Law!
On August 11, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue signed the Racial Justice Act into law, making North Carolina only the...
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Stay of Execution for Kenneth Mosley
Late on September 23, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Kenneth Mosley - a death row prisoner from Texas. The...
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Two Reprieves in Ohio!
On Monday, October 5, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland granted temporary reprieves to Lawrence Reynolds and Darryl Durr. These...
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After 3 Months, Iranian Prisoner of Conscience Released Without Charge (UA 176/09)
Jakarkhon Sheikho, an Iranian prisoner of conscience who was detained incommunicado for nearly three and a half months, was...
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(UA 110/08) Freedom in Sri Lanka for Vettivel and Valarmathi Jasikaran
Journalist Vettivel Jaskaran and his wife Valarmathi Jaskaran were released on 26 October 2009 after being arbitrarily...
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(UA 286/09) Turkmen Environmentalist Evades Five Years’ Imprisonment
Andrei Zakota, a 53-year-old male environmentalist, was released on 6 November from a sentence of five years in prison after...
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(UA 196/09)
Thousands of people in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are no longer facing eviction from their market stalls and homes. Amnesty...
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(UA 10/09) Stoning sentence quashed in Iran
Gilan Mohammadi(f) and Gholamali Eskandari(m) were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October...
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(UA 230/09) Good News! Missing NGO Worker Returns Home in China
Zhuang Lu, a 27-year-old woman who worked for the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI, known as Gongmeng in Chinese), a legal...