Victories

Changing lives and policies

We free people from prison who are being held unjustly because of who they are or what they believe. We change laws to protect millions of people’s human rights. We transform societies to be more fair, free, and just.

Here are our victories

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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Great News! Evicted Families Offered Compensation!

More than 600 people forcibly evicted from their homes in Sabbangali, N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, have been offered compensation and allocated plots of land to rebuild their houses in…

June 5, 2012

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Great News! Palestinian Detainee Freed!

Khader Adnan, a Palestinian detainee who went on a hunger strike for 66 months, was finally released on 17 April after spending four months in detention without charge or trial…

June 5, 2012

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Palestinian Detainee Freed!

Khader Adnan, a Palestinian detainee who went on a hunger strike for 66 months, was finally released on 17 April after spending four months in detention without charge or trial…

June 5, 2012

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Great News! Pro-Democracy Protester Released!

George Ramzi Nakhla, a member of the “6 April Youth” protest movement, was released on 25 March 2012 after being detained and beaten by Egyptian security forces.

June 5, 2012

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Protest Leader Freed in India

After being jailed for leading a seven-year campaign against the forcible land acquisition for a $12b steel plant, Abhay Sahoo was released on bail in early April. h

May 8, 2012

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Two Uighurs Released from Guantanamo

Amnesty International welcomed the transfer of two detainees out of Guantanamo. Amnesty International has long called for them, and all other Guantanamo detainees, to either be charged and fairly tried…

April 26, 2012

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Great News! Human rights defender released in Turkey!

Halil Savda, who has regularly spoken out publicly against compulsory military service, had been in prison since 24 February 2012, serving a 100 day sentence for “alienating the public from…

April 20, 2012

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Great News! Prisoner of conscience freed!

Belarusian prisoner of conscience Andrei Sannikau was released from prison in the northeastern city of Vitebsk on 14 April. He has thanked everyone who showed him support and solidarity.

April 20, 2012

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Great News! Prominent Malawian lawyer released on bail!

Prominent Malawian lawyer Ralph Kasambara was released on bail on 21 February. He had been arrested on charges of “kidnapping” and “unlawful wounding” following an incident which began when he…

April 20, 2012

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Great News! Kalam Soloum released on Bail!

Kamal Saloum was released on bail on 26 March. He had been arrested on 11 February 2012 and held incommunicado since then. He is now on trial on charges related…

April 20, 2012