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Featured Victory
Marilin* (31) and Yunior* (11), have been released! Before the family’s release this week, Marilin faced an anniversary no parent would want: one year of lockup with her child simply for seeking safety here in the United States.
Marilin and Yunior were featured in our family detention campaign surge – several weeks of sustained actions, from grassroots activism to billboards, to drive attention to the dozens of families who are invisible behind detention walls in Pennsylvania and Texas. We want them and the government to know they’re not forgotten, and that we are working to free them all.
Thank you all for your continuing support and activism on these case campaigns. Our collective action shines a bright light on these families and the unlawful detention of them and so many more people detained in immigration facilities, and helps push the needle for their release.
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Good News! – North Korea: Joo Won-moon Released (UA 158/15)
South Korean student Joo Won-moon has been released by the North Korean authorities and has returned to South Korea.
October 7, 2015
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Good News! – USA: Kimber Edwards’ Death Sentence Commuted (UA 207/15)
The Governor of Missouri commuted the death sentence of Kimber Edwards to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole four…
October 6, 2015
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Good News! – Viet Nam: Ta Phong Tan Released (UA 128/15)
Vietnamese blogger and prisoner of conscience Ta Phong Tan was released on 19 September after serving four years of a…
October 6, 2015
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Good News! – Cuba: Prisoner of Conscience Released (UA 77/15)
Cuban prisoner of conscience Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez was released from prison in Villa Clara province on 10 June.
September 29, 2015
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Good News! – Egypt: Last Al Jazeera Journalists Released (UA 83/14)
Journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were finally released on 23 September after Egypt’s president pardoned them.
September 29, 2015
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Good News! – India: Dalit Family Provided With Protection (UA 186/15)
The Supreme Court in India has ordered the Delhi police to provide protection to two sisters and their family after…
September 18, 2015
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Good News! – Kenya: Forced Eviction of 3000 Residents Suspended (UA 153/15)
The planned forced eviction of thousands of residents from the Deep Sea informal settlement in Nairobi has been halted temporarily.…
September 17, 2015
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Good News! – USA: Bernardo Abán Tercero Issued Stay of Execution (UA 176/15)
A Texas appeals court issued a stay of execution in the case of Bernardo Abán Tercero a day before he…
September 1, 2015
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Good News! – Belarus: Yury Rubtsou Released (UA 130/15)
Belarusian prisoner of conscience Yury Rubtsou was released from penal colony in the eastern city of Bobruisk on 22 August.
August 31, 2015
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Good News! – Serbia: Roma Families Protected from Forced Eviction (UA 161/15)
The demolition of the homes of 53 Roma families living in the Grmeč informal settlement in Zemun municipality has been…
August 20, 2015
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Good News! – Egypt: Mohamed Soltan Released (UA 128/14)
Egyptian-American activist Mohamed Soltan was released from prison and deported to the United States on 30 May, after spending one…
August 20, 2015
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Good News! – Democratic Republic of Congo: Bienvenu Matumo Released (UA 177/15)
Bienvenu Matumo, a youth activist from the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
August 17, 2015