Updates

Gao Zhisheng China On February 4, 2010, Gao's legal team, including Freedom Now, filed a petition to the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.  See Press Release and Petition; Geng He, Gao's wife, also had an op-ed published in The Washington Post the same day. Nyi Nyi Aung (Kyaw Zaw Lwin) Burma On December 17, 2009, 53 Members of Congress wrote to junta leader Than Shwe to press for the release of Nyi Nyi Aung.   See Press Release and Letter; article in The Irrawaddy; Human Rights Watch calls for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to press for his release.   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

 

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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