Bahrain: free political prisoners
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Iranian prisoner of conscience grateful for urgent action
4 May 2006, 11:58AM
Prisoner of conscience Hojjatoleslam Ezimi Qedimi thanks Amnesty for supporting him.
Nepalese civil society leaders released amid political transition
25 April 2006, 11:56AM
Prisoners of conscience Krishna Pahadi, Dr Devendra Raj Panday, Dr Mathura Prasad Shrestha and Shyam Shrestha were among hundreds of civil society and political party activists who were released on 25 April amid a historic political transition in Nepal.
Reprieve for 468 families facing eviction in Brazil
13 April 2006, 12:15PM
The 468 families squatting the Prestes Maia building in central So Paulo, who had been scheduled for eviction on 15 April, have secured a last-minute court order postponing their eviction indefinitely.
Child released from political security prison in Yemen
13 April 2006, 12:10PM
Possible prisoner of conscience Ibrahim al-Saiani was released without charge from the Political Security prison in Sana’a on 4 March. He is now in the care of his family but is still in need of medical treatment.
Indian national pardoned and spared cruel punishment
12 April 2006, 12:13PM
Puthen Veetil Abdul Latheef Noushad was released from al-Dammam prison on 5 April. At the end of January he had been pardoned by the man he was said to have partially blinded in a dispute almost three years earlier.
Gurbandurdy Durdykuliev released
11 April 2006, 12:06PM
Amnesty International welcomes the release of Gurbandurdy Durdykuliev, a 64 year old prisoner of conscience from Turkmenistan, who was forcibly confined to a psychiatric hospital in 2004, after asking President Niyazov for authorization to hold a peaceful political protest.
Iraqi writer officially pardoned and released
4 April 2006, 12:08PM
Kamal Sayid Qadir was released on 3 April after receiving an official pardon from the Prime Minister of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq. He is said to be in good health and is staying at a hotel in the city of Arbil. He plans to return to Austria in the very near future.
Felipe Arreaga Sanchez released from prison
16 December 2005, 12:32PM
Prisoner of Conscience and environmental activist, Felipe Arreaga Sanchez, was released on 15 September 2005 after spending more than ten months in prison.
Eviction order overturned for Guarani
16 December 2005, 12:19PM
On 18 August, the President of the Federal Court overturned a court decision ordering the eviction of the 100 Guarani indigenous people. In an e-mail to Amnesty International, a local human rights defender working with the Guarani, wrote:
Brother Nguyen Thien Phung (Huan) released
16 December 2005, 12:16PM
Brother Nguyen Thien Phung (Huan) was released on 1 September after spending 18 years in prison in Viet Nam.
China releases prisoner of conscience after five years
29 August 2005, 12:30PM
Rebiya Kadeer, 58-year-old mother of 11, has been reunited with her family in the USA. A champion of the rights of the Uighur ethnic group, she spent more than five years in jail in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Roy Bennett released
29 August 2005, 12:27PM
Amnesty International welcomes the release of Roy Bennett, former MP for Chimanimani, on 28 June, thanks in part to the efforts of AI members and supporters worldwide. Following a demonstrably unfair trial, Roy Bennett received a grossly disproportionate sentence in October 2004, after pushing a fellow MP to the floor in the Zimbabwean Parliament.
Krishna Pahadi, former president of AI Nepal, released
29 August 2005, 12:25PM
Krishna Pahadi was released on 4 July 2005 after five months imprisonment as a prisoner of conscience.
Prisoner of Conscience Professor Yury Bandazhevsky is free
25 August 2005, 12:21PM
The eminent Belarusian academic, Professor Yury Bandazhevsky, was conditionally released from prison on 5 August, after serving four years of an eight year sentence. Speaking to Amnesty International, Yury Bandazhevsky said that he is now spending his time getting used to his freedom and looking into work possibilities. He was released suddenly under a recent amnesty declared by President Lukashenka on 5 May, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Nepalese detainee released
5 April 2005, 12:34PM
Hom Bahadur Bagale (male, aged 41, Police Sub-Inspector) was released on 28 March, on the orders of the Supreme Court. A habeas corpus writ had been lodged on 24 March by the Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT). The court ruled that his detention was illegal and ordered the police to set him free immediately.
A policeman's job is to protect all citizens, even those he or she doesn't like. I'd have thought that a pretty basic concept.
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