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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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(UA 196/11) Great News! Woman Activist Released In Iran
Mansoureh Behkish, an Iranian human rights activist, she was released on bail on 9 July 2011.
July 15, 2011
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(UA 159/11) Great News! Woman Activist Released In Sudan
Hawa Abdallah, who works for the joint United Nations and African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), was released on 13…
July 13, 2011
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(UA 206/11) Great News! Pro-Reform Activist Released In Iraq
Dargham Mahdi al-Zaidi, a pro-reform activist aged around 30, was released on 3 July. He was apparently told that he…
July 13, 2011
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(UA 151/11) Great News! Activist Released In Syria
Syrian civil society activist Amjad Baiazy was released on bail on 1 July. He has been charged and is awaiting…
July 13, 2011
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Landmark ECHR ruling recognizes right to conscientious objection
A court has found in favour of a Jehovah’s Witness in Armenia who received a prison sentence for refusing to…
July 8, 2011
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Uruguay removes block on investigating military rule abuses
Uruguay finally has a green light to investigate dozens of cases of human rights abuses from its period of military…
July 7, 2011
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(UA 182/11) Great News! No Death Penalty For Marcel Williams
The Arkansas Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution in the case of Marcel Wayne Williams, who was scheduled…
June 29, 2011
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(UA 326/07) Great News! 7 Members Of An Ethnic Group Released in Chad
Seven men subjected to enforced disappearance since late 2007 are now known to have been released in March this year.…
June 29, 2011
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Military pledges to stop forced ‘virginity tests’ in Egypt
The head of Egypt’s military intelligence has promised Amnesty International that the army will no longer carry out forced ‘virginity…
June 27, 2011
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(UA 136/11) Great News! 19 year-old Released From Police Custody
Nineteen-year-old Zaffar Shafi Hakeem was released from police custody on the evening of 18 June, after local media highlighted Amnesty…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 87/11) Great News! Numerous Syrian Protesters released
Hundreds of people arrested during protests in Syria have now been released, some individually in previous months and some following…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 47/10) Great News! No Extradition for Huang Haiyong
The Peruvian Constitutional Court has ruled that the government should not extradite a Chinese man, Huang Haiyong to China to…
June 24, 2011