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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! Detainee Released (Venezuela: UA 55.19)
Gilber Caro, who was disappeared, arbitrary detained and held incommunicado for almost two months, was released on 17 June 2019,…
July 1, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Killing of Samir Flores Under Investigation (Mexico: UA 24.19)
The Attorney General of the State of Morelos has opened a criminal investigation into the killing of environmental, land and…
June 17, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Detainees No Longer In Police Custody (Turkey: UA 74.19)
All detainees held at the police’s anti-terrorism branch in Urfa province, south eastern Turkey, following clashes between security forces and…
June 14, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Human Rights Defender Released (Morocco: UA 76.18)
On 5 April 2019, human rights defender Zine El Abidine Erradi was released after serving a one-year sentence in Agadir…
May 17, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Asia Bibi Leaves Pakistan for Canada a Free Woman (Pakistan: UA 192.18)
Asia Bibi is a Christian farm worker, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010. After an eight-year ordeal,…
May 14, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Prisoner of Conscience Released (Algeria: UA 117.18)
On 7 March 2019, Algerian blogger and prisoner of conscience Merzoug Touati was released. On 4 March 2019, an Algerian…
May 8, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Reuters Journalists Released in Prisoner Amnesty (Myanmar: UA 4.18)
Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been granted a presidential pardon and released from prison after…
May 8, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Activist Released After Being Rearrested (Azerbaijan: UA 42.19)
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was released on 29 April after having spent 30 days in administrative detention under trumped-up accusations.
May 3, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Mikhail Tsakunov Released, Trial Ongoing (Russian Federation: UA 90.18)
Prisoner of conscience Mikhail Tsakunov was released under travel restrictions on 26 April after spending almost a year in pre-trial…
April 29, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Anti-Military Peaceful Protester Released Early (Myanmar: UA 188.18)
Activist Tin Maung Kyi was released 13 days early on 29 March 2019 after serving six months and two days…
April 12, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Arbitrarily Detained Egyptian Activist Released (Egypt: UA 176.18)
On 26 March 2019, Egyptian activist Islam Khalil was released on probation after more than a year in arbitrary detention.…
April 11, 2019
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Urgent Action Victory! Police Protects Women’s Day Rally (Ukraine: UA 31.19)
The International Women’s Day rally organised by human rights defender Vitalina Koval in Uzhgorod, western Ukraine, on 8 March was…
March 15, 2019