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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! Okinawa Activist Released On Bail After Five Months (Japan: UA 23/17)
Hiroji Yamashiro, 64 years of age, has been released on bail after five months in detention without being able to…
March 21, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Palestinian Journalist To Be Released In April (Israel/OPT: UA 48/17)
Palestinian journalist Muhammed al-Qiq suspended his hunger strike on 10 March 2017 after he learned that the Israeli authorities were…
March 20, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Former Governor Released Without Charge (South Sudan: UA 224/16)
Elias Waya Nyipuoch, former governor of Wau state, was released without charge on 14 March. He had been detained by…
March 15, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Detained Journalist Released On Bail (India: UA 224/15)
Santosh Yadav was released from prison on 9 March 2017, over a week after the Supreme Court of India granted…
March 10, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Three Human Rights Defenders Freed (Sudan: UA 128/16)
Three human rights defenders Khalafalla A. Mukhtar, Midhat A. Hamdan and Mustafa Adam have been released after being sentenced to…
March 9, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Detainee No Longer Held Incommunicado (Venezuela: UA 33/17)
Retired general Raúl IsaÃas Baduel, who has been detained in the Venezuelan military prison Ramo Verde since 12 January, has…
March 7, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Salvadoran Asylum Seeker Released (USA: UA 54.17)
Salvadoran woman Sara Beltran Hernandez has been granted bond and released from detention. She had been held in a Texas…
March 6, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Woman In Urgent Need Of Surgery Released (Turkey: UA 21/17)
Sibel Çapraz was conditionally released from prison on 28 February. She had been in pre-trial detention for almost one year…
March 2, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Independent Journalist And His Mother Released (Turkmenistan: UA 279/16)
On 15 February independent Turkmenistani journalist Khudayberdy Allashov and his mother, Kurbantach Arazmedova, were given three-year conditional sentences after being…
February 22, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Two Activists Released From Detention (Ukraine: UA 42/17)
Russian activists Seroe Fioletovoe and Viktoriya Miroshnichenko were released unharmed after spending 15 days in detention in the pro-Russian separatist-controlled…
February 15, 2017
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Good News! Lucha Activist Released Without Charge (Democratic Republic of Congo: UA 287/16)
Musasa Tshibanda, an activist from the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),…
February 14, 2017
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Urgent Action Victory! Children Released From Unlawful Detention (India: UA 239/16)
Rayees Ahmad Mir and Waheed Ahmed Gojree have been released after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court quashed their detention…
February 13, 2017