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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.
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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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…
January 19, 2024
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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…
March 8, 2021
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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…
February 26, 2021
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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…
February 24, 2021
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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…
February 23, 2021
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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…
February 11, 2021
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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…
January 5, 2021
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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…
January 5, 2021
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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…
December 21, 2020
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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…
December 17, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Activist Returned to Pakistan and Freed (Bahrain: UA 11.20)
On 8 March 2020, the Bahrain authorities forcefully returned Geelaman Pashteen a Pashtun human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s…
December 10, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Yemeni Teenager “Not Guilty” Over Speech Charges (Jordan: UA 15.20)
On 28 July 2020, the Jordanian criminal court deemed Tujan al-Bukhaiti, “not guilty” over charges of “blasphemy” and “insulting religious…
November 30, 2020