Mr. Lehane is a writer and producer of "Knife Fight," slated for release early next year.
"It's big water," said Kevin Colburn, one of the lead advocates who fought for releases on this river.
Plesch, alongside Shanti Sattler, initiated the fight for the release of the UN archive in 2007.
He has pledged, however, to fight for the release of political prisoners in Russia.
In 1945, Mr. Nascimento helped found the Afro-Brazilian Democratic Committee to fight for the release of political prisoners.
He said the British government needed to take every opportunity to fight for the release of journalists imprisoned in Egypt.
Nevertheless she continued to fight for her release, which came in 1992, nearly 17 years after her arrest, when her conviction was overturned on appeal.
Savchenko, who was exchanged for two Russian intelligence operatives held by Ukraine, thanked her supporters, and promised to fight for the release of other Ukrainians in Russian jails.
As many fight for his release, former Yukos management also fight for justice for the thousands of Yukos shareholders whose assets were stolen during a campaign of expropriation orchestrated by Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
Human rights advocates say that they have identified as many as 250 people they say are being held by the ISI as terrorism suspects, and that they will fight for their release.
