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WELCOME TO FREEDOM NOW

Our mission is to free prisoners of conscience through focused legal,
political, and public relations advocacy efforts.

 

Honorary Co-Chairs
The Honorable Václav Havel, Former President of the Czech Republic
The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town

Updates on Cases

 

Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly

On June 1, 2009, 37 U.S. Senators sent a letter to President Triet of Vietnam urging the release of Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly.  See Press Release.

 

Aung San Suu Kyi

Commemorate Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th birthday with the global 64 For Suu Campaign.

The Burmese junta has put Aung San Suu Kyi on trial for allegedly violating the terms of her house arrest.  See The Burmese Junta Still Fears Suu Kyi, By Jared Genser and Meghan Barron, May 18, 2009.

A reminder that the UN has declared her maximum period of house arrest under Burmese law expired on May 27, 2008.

We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide through legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts.

Our approach is to use advocacy efforts designed to compel the release of individuals deprived of their liberty in violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments.  We do not represent people who have used or advocated violence.

As a small organization, Freedom Now works closely with other human rights organizations and lawyers to identify high-impact cases that would benefit from our approach.  See Freedom for All, All for Freedom, by Jeremy Zucker & Jared Genser, South China Morning Post, February 5, 2005; see also Jared Genser & Margaret Winterkorn-Meikle, The Intersection of Politics and International Law: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Theory and Practice, 38 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 691 (2008).

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