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Freedom Now

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Founded
  
2000

Focus
  
Human rights

Founder
  
Jared Genser

Area served
  
Worldwide


Location
  
Washington, D.C., United States

Key people
  
Jared Genser (Founder) Maran Turner (Executive director)

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Freedom Now is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to facilitate representation for arbitrarily detained individuals who have neither used nor advocated violence and whose detention violates fundamental principles of international law.

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Its approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations 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, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments.

A small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works closely with other human rights organizations and lawyers to identify high-impact cases that would benefit from the organization's approach.

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Selected Current Campaigns

Freedom Now represents prisoners of conscience worldwide, including:

  • Abdulhadi Alkhawaja (Bahrain)
  • Akzam Turgunov (Uzbekistan)
  • Liu Xiaobo, and Gao Zhisheng (China)
  • Eskinder Nega (Ethiopia)
  • Selected past campaigns

    Prisoners of conscience previously represented by Freedom Now include:

  • Óscar Elías Biscet, M.D. (Cuba)
  • Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly (Vietnam)
  • Andrei Sannikov (Belarus)
  • Lapiro de Mbanga (Cameroon)
  • Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma)
  • Dr. Yang Jianli (China)
  • References

    Freedom Now Wikipedia