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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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Urgent Action Victory! – Activist’s Not-Guilty Verdict Upheld on Appeal (South Korea: UA 20.17)
Lee Jin-young, operator of the online library ‘Labour Books’, was found not guilty of charges under the National Security Law…
May 9, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Israeli Government Stops Forced Deportations (Israel/OPT: UA 64.18)
The Israeli government has declared that it will not pursue forcible deportations of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers to third countries…
May 8, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Prisoner of Conscience Released (Bahrain: UA 142.15)
On 26 March, political activist and prisoner of conscience, Fadhel Abbas Mahdi Mohamed was released from Jaw prison, in the…
May 3, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Women’s Rights Activists No Longer at Imminent Risk (Ukraine: UA 57.18)
Following the attacks that marred International Women’s Day in Ukraine on 8 March, Vitaliana Koval and other women’s and LGBTI…
May 3, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Supreme Court Orders Journalist’s Release (Azerbaijan: UA 186.17)
On 5 April, Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of Aziz Orujov, an independent journalist and CEO of the internet…
May 1, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Kachin Prisoner of Conscience Freed (Myanmar: UA 83.17)
Kachin prisoner of conscience Lahpai Gam has been released from prison following a Presidential amnesty on 17 April 2018. Detained…
April 20, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Kachin Pastors Released in Prisoner Amnesty (Myanmar: UA 13.17)
Kachin pastors Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam Seng have been released from prison following a Presidential amnesty on 17…
April 20, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – More Than Fifty Critics Released Without Charge (Sudan: UA 35.18)
56 opposition party members and human rights defenders arrested in January and February were released without charge on 10 April.…
April 18, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Gazan’s Second Leg Saved From Being Amputated (Israel/OPT: UA 73.18)
On 16 April, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that 20-year-old journalist Yousef al-Kronz, who was seriously wounded by Israeli forces…
April 18, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Two Government Critics Released (Ethiopia: UA 62.18)
Seyoum Teshome and Taye Dendea were released from Maekelawi prison on 16 April without being charged. The two had been…
April 17, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Eleven People Freed After More than a Week in Jail (Ethiopia: UA 23.18)
Eleven people including a lawyer, journalists, bloggers, opposition members and academics were released on 5 April without being charged. The…
April 10, 2018
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Urgent Action Victory! – Indigenous Defender No Longer Under Threat (Ecuador: UA 8.18)
Indigenous defender Patricia Gualinga is no longer considered under imminent threat. No new security incidents or threats against her have…
April 6, 2018