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Urgent Action Victory! Beninese Journalist Ignace Sossou is Free (Benin: UA 8.20)
Investigative journalist Ignace Sossou was freed from Cotonou prison on 24 June after having served six months in arbitrary detention. On 19 May, the Cotonou Court of Appeal reduced his…
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Urgent Action Victory! Jehovah’s Witness’ Sentence Commuted (Russian Federation: UA 107.20)
On 3 August, the Pskov Regional Court, in western Russia, commuted Gennadiy Shpakovsky’s six-and-a-half-years’ prison sentence to a suspended sentence of the same duration including two years on probation. The…
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Urgent Action Victory! Niger Journalist Samira Sabou Has Been Freed (Niger: UA 117.20)
Samira Sabou, a journalist and President of the Niger bloggers association, was freed from Niamey pris-on on 28 July after the judge dismissed all charges of defamation against her. She…
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Urgent Action Victory! Kelly Gonzalez Aguilar is Free (USA: UA 59.20)
Kelly Gonzalez Aguilar, a 23-year-old transgender woman, fled Honduras when she was 12 years old because of violence against her based on her transgender identity. US immigration authorities detained her…
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Urgent Action Victory! Government Confirms Funding for Women’s Rights (Mexico: UA 111.20)
On 23 April, the Mexican government suspended funding for different programs to attend the COVID-19 pandemic, including that of the Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Women Shelters (CAMIs). The government had not…
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Urgent Action Victory! Opposition Leader Released from Prison (Cuba: UA 134.19)
After being in detention since October 2019, José Daniel Ferrer GarcÃa was sent to house arrest in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on April 2020, after a trial where he was…
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Urgent Action Victory! Teacher and Protest Organizer Released on Bail (Iraq: UA 89.20)
On 30 May 2020, teacher and activist Badal Abdulbaqi Aba Bakr Barwari was released on bail. On 16 May 2020 armed members of local police as well as security forces…
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Urgent Action Victory! Activist Released from Psychiatric Hospital (Azerbaijan: UA 104.20)
Opposition activist Agil Humbatov was released from a psychiatric hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, on 1 July. He was forcibly placed there on 2 April after he criticized the authorities’…
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Urgent Action Victory! Female Activist Released After Incommunicado Detention (China: UA 28.20)
Li Qiaochu, an active defender of the rights of women and workers, has been released on bail and returned home on 19 June 2020. Detained incommunicado since 16 February 2020,…
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Urgent Action Victory! Defender Receives Additional Protection (Mexico: UA 58.20)
Since we took action for Clemencia Adelaida Salas Salazar, women’s rights defender in Yucatán (South), she has not faced further attacks. In May 2020, the Mexican Protection Mechanism for Human…
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Urgent Action Victory! Attacks Against Indigenous Communities Investigated (Colombia: UA 70.20)
On 27 May, the Public Prosecutor's Office in Villavicencio (Central Colombia) sent four people from its Technical Investigation Body to the ASEINPOME community to investigate the threats the community has…
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Urgent Action Victory! Asylum-Seekers Allowed to Disembark (Malta: UA 87.20)
Maltese authorities finally allowed the disembarkment of all asylum-seekers held on four ferry boats off Malta’s territorial waters in the night of 6-7 June. The approximately 425 asylum-seekers had been…