| Updates |
| Gao
Zhisheng
China
On March 9, 2010, Gao's legal team, including Freedom Now,
filed a petition to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
See Press
Release and Petition;
UN Special Rapportuer on Torture Manfred Nowak says he is
"very
concerned" about Gao.
New
Cases
Akzam
Turgunov
Uzbekistan
A human rights activist and political leader sentenced to
10-years imprisonment on a bogus corruption charge.
Lapiro
de Mbanga
Cameroon
A popular singer-songwriter sentenced to three-years imprisonment
for his lyrics that were critical of President Paul Biya
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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).
