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(UA 225/09) Evicted Families Win Major Victory in Brazil
The families who suffered a violent forced eviction in August from the Olga Benario settlement in the south of Sao Paulo,...
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(UA 18/10) Good News! – Detainee Held Incommunicado Released in Tunisia
Tunisian Walid Romdhani was released on 20 January. He had been arrested on 18 January and was believed to be held...
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(UA 17/10) Iranian Student Released on Bail
Iranian student Payam Jahangiry was released on bail on 17 January after six weeks' detention without charge in the city of...
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(UA 11/10) Great News! Pro-Democracy Writer, Zhao Shiying, Released in China!
Zhao Shiying, independent writer and detained signatory of Charter 08, was released and returned home on 25 January 2010. He...
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(UA 25/10) Good News! Cleric Released on Bail in Iran
Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Khalaji was released on bail on 1 February, after nearly three weeks in Evin prison...
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(UA 305/09) Great News! Prisoner of Conscience, Igor Koktysh, Released in Ukraine
On 2 February, Belarusian musician and activist Igor Koktysh was released from the pre-trial detention centre in the Ukraine...
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(UA 196/09) Good News! – Thousands Saved from Eviction in Zimbabwe
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 316/09) Good News! Journalist Freed in Kuwait
Amnesty International has learned that Kuwaiti journalist Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qader al-Jasem was released on bail on 4...
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(UA 221/09) Good News! Prison Sentence Reduced for US Conscientious Objector
Military authorities in the USA have approved a three-month reduction in the prison sentence of conscientious objector...
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(UA 233/09) Good News – Prisoner of Conscience Released on Bail in Iran
Dr Mohammad Maleki was released on bail on 1 March 2010. He had spent 191 days detained in Evin Prison, Tehran apparently...
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(UA 30/10) Good News – Women’s Rights Activist Released in Iran
Student and women's rights activist Somayeh Rashidi was released from Evin Prison, Tehran, on 25 February 2010. Amnesty...
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(UA 65/10) Good News! Teenage Rape Survivor Gets Legal Abortion in Argentina
A 15-year-old girl from the southern Argentinean province of Chubut was given a legal abortion on 20 March. She was pregnant...