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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 36/10) Good News – Environmental activist Released on Bail in Iran
Iranian environmental activist and interpreter Mahfarid Mansourian was released on bail on 21 February, after two weeks’…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 21/10) Good News! – Journalists Released on Bail in Iran
Music journalist Behrang Tonekaboni, his mother Lily Farhadpour and his colleague Kayvan Farzin have been released on…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 56/10) Detained Politician Granted Access to Legal Counsel in Rwanda
Rwandan politician Deogratias Mushayidi has now been granted access to legal counsel, and was brought before a court on 18…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 03/10) Newspaper Editor Released on bail
Hisham Bashraheel, editor of a newspaper in Yemen, has been released on bail, after being detained without charge for almost…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 231/09) Journalist and Prisoner of Conscience Released on Bail
Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, was released on bail on 1 November after four months detained without trial in Iran’s…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 116/07) Death Sentences of Two Men Quashed in Saudi Arabia
In an unusual move, the Supreme Court in Saudi Arabia has quashed the death sentences of 24-year-old Canadian man Mohamed…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 07/10) European Court of Human Rights Rules in Favor of Ahmed Chataev
On 14 January the European Court of Human Rights called upon the Ukrainian authorities not to extradite an ethnic Chechen…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 76/10) Good News: Sudanese Refugee No Longer at Imminent Risk of Forcible Return
Ishaq Fadl Dafallah, a Sudanese refugee in Egypt, is no longer at imminent risk of forcible return to Sudan from…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 106/10) Good News: Baltic Pride March Authorized
The Supreme Administrative Court in Vilnius, Lithuania, ruled that the Baltic Pride march could go ahead, after being…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 248/09) Good News: Soldier in Guinea Released
Mamadou Korka Damba has been released from prison in Guinea after being detained incommunicado for more than five months.
April 14, 2011
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(UA 327/09) Good News: Syrian Political Activist Released on Bail
Ahmed Mustafa Ben-Mohammed was released on bail on April 27, after being detained since November 7, 2009, on charges of…
April 14, 2011
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(UA 204/09) Good News: Four Soldiers Released in Guinea
Four soldiers who had been held without charge since January 2009 were released on April 7 in Guinea. They were…
April 14, 2011