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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 at the Seoul High Court on 11 April 2018. This…
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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 under the Israeli ‘Procedure for Deportation to Third Countries’. This…
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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 Bahraini capital, Manama. He served three years in prison on…
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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 rights defenders in Ukraine are no longer considered to be…
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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 TV channel Canal 13, on a suspended three-year sentence. The…
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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 since June 2012, he was tortured during interrogation and falsely…
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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 2018. The two men had been detained since December…
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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. They were arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Sudanese National…
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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 on 30 March during Land Day protests in the Gaza…
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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 arrested on 8 March and 15 March respectively.