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Urgent Action VICTORY: Release Palestinian Human Rights Defender (IOPT 2.24)
NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS. On December 18, 2023, Munther Amira, 53, was arrested from his home in the Aida refugee camp in…
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Urgent Action Victory! Human Rights Defender Transferred to Brazil (Mozambique: UA 132.20)
Following a long defamatory and intimidatory campaign against Bishop Lisboa and his human rights work in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the Pope Francis announced the transfer of Bishop Lisboa to Brazil…
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Urgent Action Victory! Four of Five Families Freed from Detention (USA: UA 116.20)
Over the course of 2020, Amnesty International campaigned to free five families from immigration detention in the USA, with the broader call for all detained families to be freed. Of…
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Urgent Action Victory! Deportation of Chechen Man Suspended (France: UA 24.21)
A.S., a Chechen man who was held in immigration detention in France facing imminent deportation to Russia, was released on 20 February. His deportation to Russia, where he would be…
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Urgent Action Victory! Peaceful Protester Released After Sixteen Months (Russian Federation: UA 82.20)
Prisoner of conscience Konstantin Kotov, who was convicted for “repeated violations of regulations of public assemblies”, left prison on 16 December after having spent one year and four months behind…
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Urgent Action Victory! Pastor Steven Tendo Released from Detention (USA: UA 112.20)
Steven Tendo is a 35-year-old pastor and asylum-seeker who fled from torture and other severe human rights violations in Uganda and requested asylum in the USA. He was held by…
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Urgent Action Victory! Guinean Pro-Democracy Activist Is Free (Guinea: UA 83.20)
Saïkou Yaya Diallo, the legal coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), was freed from Conakry prison on 11 December 2020 after having served seven…
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Urgent Action Victory! Opposition Members Released (Togo: UA 171.20)
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020 and are now under judicial supervision. At the end of November 2020, they…
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Urgent Action Victory! Indigenous Land Defender Receives Protection (Paraguay: UA 160.20)
In November, Paraguayan authorities opened an investigation and provided protection to Bernarda Pesoa, leader of an indigenous Qom community, after she was attacked in late October. We continue to monitor…
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Urgent Action Victory! Human Rights Defenders Released (Egypt: UA 166.20)
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer, directors at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), were released and are now safely home with their…