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Good News! – Myanmar: U Gambira Released (UA 14/16)
Prisoner of conscience U Gambira was released on 1 July after all charges against him were dropped by courts in Myanmar.
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Good News! – Sudan: Eight Students Released (UA 105/16)
Eight students who were arrested while at the office of the human rights lawyer, Nabil Adib, in Khartoum on 5 May have been released on 19 June and 21 June.…
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Good News! – Bahrain: Zainab Al-Khawaja Released (UA 306/14)
Zainab al-Khawaja and her son were released from prison in Bahrain on humanitarian grounds on 31 May. She left Bahrain for Denmark on 7 June after receiving information that she…
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Good News! – Turkey: Fadi Mansour Released (UA 282/15)
Syrian refugee Fadi Mansour finally reunited with his family in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 June. He had been held in the Adana Removal Centre in south-eastern Turkey since 19 March,…
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Good News! – Saudi Arabia Mohammed Saleh al-Bajadi Released (UA 91/11)
Human rights defender Mohammed Saleh al-Bajadi was released on 7 April from a rehabilitation centre where he had spent four months after being discharged from prison in November 2015. He…
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Good News! – Turkey: Syrian Refugees Released (UA 118/16)
Seven of the 12 Syrian refugees detained in Düziçi camp, Osmaniye province, in southern Turkey, were released on 20 May. The other five, a woman and her four children, requested…
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Good News! – Oman: Sulaiman Al-Ma’mari Released (UA 107/16)
Omani writer, journalist and human rights activist Sulaiman al-Ma’mari was released without charge on 19 May, following 22 days detained in solitary confinement. The Omani authorities have yet to give…
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Good News! – Russian Federation: Activist Released Dimitry Vorobyovsky (UA 109/16)
Activist Dmitry Vorobyovsky, who had been taken to a psychiatric hospital on 6 May and subjected to involuntary psychiatric treatment, was released following a court order on 12 May.
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Good News! Oman: Abdullah Habib Released (UA 92/16)
Omani poet, writer, film critic and human rights defender, Abdullah Habib was released without charge on 4 May.
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Good News! – Bahrain: Ahmad Fardan Released (UA 3/14)
Photographer and prisoner of conscience Ahmad Fardan has been released after completing his three-month prison sentence on 18 April.