Good News

On 15 August, Taner Kılıç — the Honorary Chair of Amnesty International Turkey — was released from priso after over 432 days in prison.

Millions of people worldwide have taken action on this case, which has no doubt pressured the authorities, helping to secure Taner’s release.

On 26 June a Sudanese court repealed Noura Hussein’s death sentence and replaced it with a five-year prison term.

25,000 Amnesty supporters called for the release of Mohammad Abu Sakha, the 24-year-old circus performer and teacher after two years of being held without charge

Four-year-old Carlos and 16-year-old Michael along with their mothers, Lorena and Maribel, were ordered released from Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania by an immigration judge after nearly 700 days in detention.

Human rights defender Tarek Hussein was released on 27 July. After being arbitrarily detained for 40 days, the former prisoner of conscience has now joined his family.

Amnesty International pressure led to the removal of regressive aspects from needed Torture Law

A personal thank you from the Myanmar student activist freed earlier this year following Amnesty's Write for Rights 2015.

We’ve been hit with such good news and updates since the beginning of this year… We simply had to round it all up! 

Good news and human rights successes from across the world.

Read about some of the successes you have contributed to so far this year!

Thank you to the thousands of you who took action for Moses and urged the Governor to show mercy

Thanks to your campaigning, a new global treaty prevents the sale of weapons to places that will use them to abuse human rights.

The International Criminal Court convicted Germain Katanga of war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Young activists from youth organisation N!DA have been released from prison following a presidential pardon.

Thanks to your support, new laws are protecting women from violence in Papua New Guinea.