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Urgent Action Victory! Indigenous Community Granted Protection (Paraguay: UA 149.18)
Paraguayan authorities have called for an impartial and independent investigation into the attacks against Tekoha Sauce Indigenous leader Amada MartÃnez, and provided physical protection to the community. In addition, the…
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Urgent Action Victory!: Online Activist Released Without Charge (South Sudan: UA 158.18)
Activist Ahmed Al-Dai Bushara Joudah was released without charge from Kober prison on 18 September. He had spent sixty-four days in detention.
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Urgent Action Victory! – Lawyer at Risk Granted Protection Measures (Chile: UA 134.18)
Chilean human rights defender and lawyer Karina Riquelme is no longer considered under imminent threat. The Supreme Court of Justice of Chile ordered protection measures for her on 25 September…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Dalit Rights Activist Released (India: UA 248.17)
Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, a prominent Dalit rights activist, has been released from Saharanpur District Prison on 14 September. He was being held in administrative detention without charge or trial under…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Tajikistani Prisoner of Conscience Released (Tajikistan: UA 139.18)
On 22 August, independent journalist and prisoner of conscience Khairullo (Khayrullo) Mirsaidov received a non-custodial sentence and was released in the courtroom, after spending more than eight months behind bars.…
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Urgent Action Victory! – All 14 Charges Against Political Activist Dropped (Malaysia: UA 238.15)
Khalid Mohd Ismath, former prisoner of conscience, has had all charges against him dropped. Arrested on 13 October 2015 and released on bail later that same month, Khalid Mohd Ismath…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Palestinian NGO Worker Released (Israel/OPT: UA 72.18)
On 17 July, Abdul Razeq Farraj, Finance and Administration Director at the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), a development NGO based in Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT),…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Court Overturns Conviction of Three Youth (Angola: UA 115.18)
Afonso S. Muatchipuculo (22), António J. Fernando (18) and Justino H. Valente (21) were released on 17 July. The three youth had been sentenced to seven months in prison by…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Indigenous Leader Ends 2 Month Hunger Strike (Chile: UA 75.18)
After nearly two months on a hunger strike, Mapuche Indigenous spiritual leader Machi Celestino Córdova is granted access to his ceremonial altar to carry out a renewal ceremony, essential to…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Russian Court Whisteblower Released (Russian Federation: UA 228.17)
On 18 July, St Petersburg’s Kalininsky District Court sentenced former court secretary and whistleblower Aleksandr Eivazov to one year and ten months in an open penal colony for “interfering with…