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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 113/11) Great News! Iraqi Political Activist Released
Firas Ali, an Iraqi political activist, was released on 27 April 2011 after having been held for two weeks at…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 86/11) Great News! Arbitrary Charges Withdrawn Against WOZA Leaders in Zimbabwe
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) leaders are no longer in hiding after a police search for them appears to have…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 47/11) Great News! Human Rights Lawyers Released in China
Human Rights Lawyers Tang Jitian and Teng Biao (captured along with Jiang Tianyong who was released on 21 April 2011)…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 109/11) Great News! Cameroonian Writer Bertrand Zepherin Teyou Released
Writer Bernard Zepherin Teyou was released on 29 April. He had been imprisoned since November 2010 after writing a book…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 73/11) Great News! Detained Bangaldeshi Man Returns Home
A 20 year-old man, Manik, was released from detention on 29 March 2011. He had been held without charge in…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 92/11) Great News! Human Rights Defender Released in China
Human rights activist Ding Fangguan (known as Gu Chuan) has been returned to his family home in Beijing where he,…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 96/11) Great News! Protestors Released in Oman
All those detained in Oman in relation to recent protests, have been released without charge, except for at least nine…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 111/11) Great News! Civil Society Activist Released in the UAE
Fahad Salem al-Shehhi, a civil society activist detained on 10 April, was released on 17 April. However, three other bloggers…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 104/11) Great News! 4 men Detained Arbitrarily Released in Libya
Four men, Zeyad Ramadan, Ghazi Ramadan, Khaled Sury and another unnamed man, were released on 25 April. It was unclear…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 101/11) Great News! Journalist Released in Libya
Rana al-Aqbani, a 28 year old journalist, was released on 17 April. Her brother Hani al-Aqbani was released several days…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 87/11) Great News! Fifty-two Protestors Released in Syria
Fifty-two people detained in connection with continuing popular protests in Syria have been released. However hundreds of other protestors are…
June 24, 2011
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(UA 99/11) Great News! No Deportation for Syrian Refugee
Mohamed Zaher Asade, a Syrian man facing deportation from Spain to Syria, was released on 15 April. Asade was detained…
June 24, 2011