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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.Â
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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Human Rights Activist in Bahrain Released!
Sayed Yousif Almuhafdah was released on 16 November. He had been arrested on 2 November for reportedly monitoring a gathering taking place and the police behavior towards protesters.
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Great News! Cuban Activist Released
Antonio Rodiles, the national coordinator of a civil society initiative calling on the government to ratify international human rights treaties, was released on the afternoon of 26 November having spent…
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Good News! Human Rights Defenders Given Protection
Rosario Huayanca Zapata and Father José Manuel Miranda Azpiroz of the Human Rights Committee who received death threats on 4 and 8 October, have reported that there have been no…
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Child Released Without Charge in Bahrain!
Mohammad Mohammad ‘Abdulnabi ‘Abdulwasi was released without charge on the evening of 20 December 2012.
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Tamms Supermaximum Security prison now closed
Fifteen years after it opened, Tamms CMAX is officially closed. The last five inmates in the high security unit were transferred on 28th December 2012 to Pontiac Correctional Center, Illinois.
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Evicted Roma families in Serbia are finally granted access to water
Action by Amnesty International has prompted the authorities in the Serbian city of Nis to supply drinking water to Roma families who were forcibly evicted from their homes in the…
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Governor grants reprieve from execution!
The Governor of Ohio has granted a two-week reprieve to a Lebanese national with mental illness facing execution on 6 June to allow the court more time to examine whether…
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Prominent Sudanese journalist acquitted!
Faisal Mohammed Saleh, a prominent Sudanese journalist who faced harassment by the security services, was acquitted on 31 May of charges of non-compliance with a public agent.
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Anti Steel Plant Leader Released on Bail!
Narayan Reddy, part of a campaign against a South Korean company’s intended acquisition of common lands used by local farmers to build a steel plant, was released on bail on…
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Haiti Families “Will Not be Forcibly Evicted”
A representative of the man claiming to be the landowner of Grace Village camp in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince has promised that residents will be not be forcibly evicted.
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Bahraini Women Activists Released!
A lower court ordered Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja to be released after paying a fine along with fellow activist Ma’suma Sayyid Sharaf on 29 May.
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Sudanese Student Activist Released!
Sudanese student activist Haidar Mahmoud Abderrahman Manis, who has been held in detention since 28 March, has been released.