Editing Freedom Now

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| location            = [[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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| key_people          = Maran Turner <br /> ([[Executive director]])
| area_served         = Worldwide
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| focus               = [[Human rights]]
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| founder             = [[Jared Genser]]
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| homepage            = {{URL|freedom-now.org}}
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'''Freedom Now''' is a [[Washington, D.C.]]-based [[non-profit]], [[Nonpartisanship|non-partisan]] organization that opposes government [[Political repression|repression]] and defends [[human rights]] through direct [[legal support]], advocacy, and [[Capacity building|capacity-building]] analysis and assistance.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us {{!}} Freedom Now|url=https://www.freedom-now.org/about-us/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.freedom-now.org}}</ref>

Its approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts<ref>Kashino, Marisa M. [http://www.washingtonian.com/print/articles/6/0/17038.html "I'm an American"] ''[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]]'' Oct. 12, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2011.</ref> designed to compel the [[Prisoner reentry|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]].<ref>[[Jared Genser]] & Margaret Winterkorn-Meikle, [http://www.freedom-now.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/CHRLRArticle.pdf 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. 101, 131 n. 139 (2008).</ref>

A small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works with other human rights organizations and lawyers{{Examples|date=October 2010}} to identify cases that would benefit from the organization's approach.

== Notable campaigns ==
Freedom Now represents 38 [[prisoners of conscience]] worldwide, including:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Cases {{!}} Freedom Now|url=https://www.freedom-now.org/all-cases/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.freedom-now.org}}</ref>
*[[Abdulhadi Alkhawaja]] ([[Bahrain]])
*[[Loujain al-Hathloul|Loujain Alhathloul]] ([[Saudi Arabia]])
*[[G.N. Saibaba]] ([[India]])
*[[Buzurgmehr Yorov]] ([[Tajikistan]])

== Notable past campaigns ==
[[File:23.5.2016 Conferencia del doctor Oscar Elías Biscet (26590325864).jpg|thumb|Óscar Elías Biscet in 2016.]]
Prisoners of conscience previously represented by Freedom Now include:<ref name=":0" />
*[[Eskinder Nega]] ([[Ethiopia]])
*[[Óscar Elías Biscet]], M.D. ([[Cuba]])
*[[Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly]] ([[Vietnam]])
*[[Andrei Sannikov]] ([[Belarus]])
*[[Lapiro de Mbanga]] ([[Cameroon]])
*[[Yang Jianli|Dr. Yang Jianli]] ([[China]])

== UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Database ==
In 2011, Freedom Now partnered with the UN and [[Thomson Reuters]] to create the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Database. The online database includes over 1,000 legal decisions from 1992 to the present.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marketscreener.com/THOMSON-REUTERS-CORP-1411972/news/Thomson-Reuters-Corp-United-Nations-Thomson-Reuters-and-Freedom-Now-Establish-Legal-Database-13890362/|title=Thomson Reuters Corp : United Nations, Thomson Reuters and Freedom Now Establish Legal Database {{!}} MarketScreener|last=MarketScreener|website=www.marketscreener.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}</ref> It is the only searchable, complete database of Working Group decisions available. Freedom Now continues to monitor and update the database.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unwgaddatabase.org/un/Document.aspx?id=1944|title=United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Document Search|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.freedom-now.org Freedom Now homepage]

[[Category:Human rights organizations based in the United States]]