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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! Bill Restricting Access to Safe Abortion Rejected (Slovakia: UA 128.20)
On 20 October, the Slovak Parliament rejected a bill that would have further obstructed access to safe abortion care, violating…
November 30, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Legal Abortion is Closer Than Ever (Argentina: UA 163.20)
In March 2020, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez publicly committed to present a bill to Congress to legalize abortion before the…
November 19, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Charges Against Union Activists Will Not Proceed (Malaysia: UA 93.20)
On 2 October 2020, five activists who were charged for “unauthorized gathering” were granted a discharge not amounting to acquittal…
October 21, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Shaman Released from Psychiatric Detention (Russian Federation: UA 94.20)
Siberian shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev was released from psychiatric detention on 22 July after his defense team succeeded in their request…
October 15, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! LGBT+ Activist Victoria Biran Released (Belarus: UA 150.20)
On 11 October LGBT+ activist Victoria Biran was released after two weeks in detention. Victoria Biran was detained on her…
October 15, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Detained Activist Gets Medical and Family Access (Cameroon: UA 9.20)
Political activist Serge Branco Nana is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for ‘mutiny’ in Mfou Prison, southern Cameroon, after…
October 7, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Cuban Prisoner of Conscience Released (Palestine: UA 122.20)
Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces, Cuban lawyer, independent journalist and prisoner of conscience, was released from prison on 4 September…
September 28, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Pro-Democracy Activist Released (Guinea: UA 64.20)
Oumar Sylla (alias Foniké Mengué), who was in charge of the mobilization efforts of the opposition coalition group, Front for…
September 9, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Hospital Workers Have Been Paid (Guatemala: UA 95.20)
As of the beginning of August, payment was given to all 46 workers who had been fired from the Industrial…
September 9, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Incommunicado Detainee Released (Venezuela: UA 81.20)
Maury Carrero, detained arbitrarily in April 2020 by officers of the Directorate for Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) in Caracas, was unconditionally…
September 3, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Charges Dropped and Detainee Released (Venezuela: UA 125.20)
Nicmer Evans, a Venezuelan political scientist and communicator, was unconditionally released on 1 September as part of a group of…
September 2, 2020
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Urgent Action Victory! Seven Papuan Activists Released from Prison (Indonesia: UA 100.20)
On 17 June 2020, seven Papuan activists were convicted of treason (makar) and sentenced to between ten and 11 months…
August 24, 2020