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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.
Browse Victories
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NGO workers released without charge
7 NGO workers were were released without charge in late May.
April 27, 2011
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Leyla Zana — Special Focus Case
Leyla Zana and three other parliamentarians were released from prison on June 9, 2004 by order of a Turkish appeals…
April 27, 2011
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Your efforts are making a difference in Darfur
Security Council Resolution 1769 will bring the goal of protection of civilians and displaced in Darfur within reach.
April 27, 2011
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Father Ly — Special Focus Case
Amnesty International is happy to report that Father Ly was released from prison on February 1, 2005.
April 27, 2011
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Latvia Pride
In 2007 Amnesty supporters sent over a thousand appeals to the Latvian authorities urging safety for participants in the Riga…
April 27, 2011
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Girl from Al-Qatif pardoned
The sentences of flogging and imprisonment imposed on a woman rape victim and her male companion, are reported to have…
April 27, 2011
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New Jersey Ends the Death Penalty!
On Monday, December 10th, the New Jersey Senate passed a bill to abolish the death penalty.
April 27, 2011
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Nicaragua: Sodomy Laws Repealed
On June 11, 1992 the Nicaraguan National Assembly approved a number of amendments to the Penal Code regarding sexual…
April 27, 2011
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(UA 13/10) Good News – Venezuelan Farmer Able to See Family
Farmer Franklin Brito Rodriguez has now been returned to his bed on a regular ward of the military hospital in…
April 27, 2011
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(UA 188/10) Great News! Syrian Asylum Seeker Released
Abd al-Karim Hussein, a Syrian Kurdish man held incommunicado after his forcible return from Norway, was released.
April 27, 2011
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(UA 249/10) Great News! Saudi Arabian Law Professor Released Released
Law professor Dr Mohammed Abdullah al-Abdulkareem was released on 15 February.
April 27, 2011