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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 time served by a court in Khartoum, Sudan. The three,…
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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 finally been allowed to meet with his lawyer and his…
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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 detention centre for 15 months, despite having a claim to…
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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 and was in need of medical treatment and an urgent…
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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 found guilty of possessing chewing tobacco. They were released form…
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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 Donetsk, in Ukraine. The activists have now returned to Russia.
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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), was released on 8 February. He was not charged. He…
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Urgent Action Victory! Algerian Journalist Hassan Bouras Released (Algeria: UA 280/16)
Algerian journalist Hassan Bouras was released on 17 January after his sentence was reduced to a six-month suspended prison term on appeal.
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Urgent Action Victory! Crimean Lawyer Released But Still At Risk (Ukraine: UA 31/17)
Human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was released on 5 February in Simferopol, Crimea, having served 10 days in administrative detention to which he was sentenced as reprisal for his human…
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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 orders on 6 and 31 December 2016 respectively. The teenagers…