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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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“I Will Carry On…”
In January 2003, Urgent Action letter-writers sent thousands of appeals to Brazilian officials on behalf of Dr. Elma Novais…
April 14, 2011
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The Threat of an Urgent Action
This message is from a member of the Urgent Action Team at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London: “I wanted to…
April 14, 2011
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Ingushetia relatives grateful to Urgent Action letter-writers
All 36 Chechen men detained in Altievo, Ingushetia during a police and army raid on June 23, 2004, were released,…
April 14, 2011
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Khalmurad Gylychdurdyev returned to his family.
Khalmurad Gylychdurdyev was returned to his family by officers of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) on June 26, 2004….
April 14, 2011
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“We will win in a prosperous world.”
All charges against human rights activist Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, director of the Sudan Social Development Organization…
April 14, 2011
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The authorities now recognize the problem.
In May 2000, Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action on behalf of Valdenia Aparecida Paulino, a Brazilian lawyer who…
April 14, 2011
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Environmental activists more determined now to continue work.
Isidro Baldenegro and Hermenegildo Domingo Rivas, two environmental activists and human rights defenders, were released on…
April 14, 2011
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Sister thanks Urgent Action activists for helping brother.
Dilobar Khudoberganova is the sister of Iskander Khudoberganov, a man who has been the subject of numerous Urgent Actions. …
April 14, 2011
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Vietnamese Buddhist monk takes a breath of freedom
Prisoner of conscience Thich Tri Luc has been resettled in Sweden. He has expressed thanks “from the bottom of my…
April 14, 2011
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Turkish human rights defender thanks activists for effective work
Sevim Yetkiner, chair of the Mus branch of the Human Rights Association was released from Erzurum prison in eastern Turkey…
April 14, 2011
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Letters offer support and protection to family of murdered daughter
Gustavo Melmann, members of his family and family friends were subjected to harassment and intimidation following the…
April 14, 2011
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Letters bring release and happiness to Congolese prisoner of conscience
N’sii Luanda Shandwe was released January 26, 2003, having spent nine months in prison. He was detained as a result…
April 14, 2011