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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 225/09) Evicted Families Win Major Victory in Brazil
The families who suffered a violent forced eviction in August from the Olga Benario settlement in the south of Sao…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 18/10) Good News! – Detainee Held Incommunicado Released in Tunisia
Tunisian Walid Romdhani was released on 20 January. He had been arrested on 18 January and was believed to be…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 17/10) Iranian Student Released on Bail
Iranian student Payam Jahangiry was released on bail on 17 January after six weeks’ detention without charge in the city…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 11/10) Great News! Pro-Democracy Writer, Zhao Shiying, Released in China!
Zhao Shiying, independent writer and detained signatory of Charter 08, was released and returned home on 25 January 2010. He…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 25/10) Good News! Cleric Released on Bail in Iran
Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Khalaji was released on bail on 1 February, after nearly three weeks in Evin prison…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 305/09) Great News! Prisoner of Conscience, Igor Koktysh, Released in Ukraine
On 2 February, Belarusian musician and activist Igor Koktysh was released from the pre-trial detention centre in the Ukraine…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 196/09) Good News! – Thousands Saved from Eviction in Zimbabwe
Thousands of people in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, are no longer facing eviction from their market stalls and homes. Amnesty…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 316/09) Good News! Journalist Freed in Kuwait
Amnesty International has learned that Kuwaiti journalist Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qader al-Jasem was released on bail on 4…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 221/09) Good News! Prison Sentence Reduced for US Conscientious Objector
Military authorities in the USA have approved a three-month reduction in the prison sentence of conscientious objector…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 233/09) Good News – Prisoner of Conscience Released on Bail in Iran
Dr Mohammad Maleki was released on bail on 1 March 2010. He had spent 191 days detained in Evin Prison,…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 30/10) Good News – Women’s Rights Activist Released in Iran
Student and women’s rights activist Somayeh Rashidi was released from Evin Prison, Tehran, on 25 February 2010. Amnesty…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 65/10) Good News! Teenage Rape Survivor Gets Legal Abortion in Argentina
A 15-year-old girl from the southern Argentinean province of Chubut was given a legal abortion on 20 March. She was…
April 14, 2011