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Iranian Prosecutors Seek to Shut 2 Reform Parties » Iran’s prosecutors moved Tuesday to shut down the nation’s two largest reform parties during a mass trial of former officials, journalists and academics all arrested and charged with conspiring to orchestrate a so-called velvet revolution in Iran.A mass trial on Tuesday in Tehran for those arrested and charged with conspiring to orchestrate a so-called velvet revolution. In the nationally televised hearing, the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to repudiate not only individuals ...
Iran's Internet: Whirlpool and fear » While the world is trying to free the web, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is going to make it much more barred. Recently, a site which is called Gerdab (Whirlpool) has been launched in order to monitor the Iranian Internet according to the IRGC’s dogmatic ideologies and strategies.Gerdab gathered a professional team to observe the internet. It is aimed to catch opposition web sites and blogs by reporting and/or undermining them. This will constitute an unprecedented threat for the safe...
It's Egypt's young who are leading the protests » Patience is a virtue – maybe even the supreme one in Egypt's popular hierarchy of values, but patience also has its limits and, now, at last, it seems as if we've arrived at ours. And fittingly, it's the young of the country who are leading us. They've had enough of unemployment, deteriorating education, corruption, police brutality and political impotence.As is now well known, they organised Tuesday's protests over Facebook and in closed virtual and actual meetings. Talk about grassroots! "They...
Dalai Lama Meets Protests, Tears in Taiwan » Under a vast plain of dried mud, set between southern Taiwan's lush mountains, 400 bodies still lie that were buried alive three weeks ago in typhoon Morakot, the island's most recent and deadly natural disaster. The now infamous village of Siaolin — the worst hit by Morakot — was the first stop for the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader-in-exile, on his visit to Taiwan this week. Wrapped in his saffron and maroon robes, he sat in the traditional leg-cross on a blue and gold straw mat, overlooking the...
APEC Peaceful Protest March Sydney » SYDNEY, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The first APEC protest was staged in Sydney on Tuesday, hours before U.S. President George W. Bush was due to arrive for a summit of 21 Asia-Pacific leaders, but police and media far outnumbered activists.Chanting "Bush go home", "Out of Iraq" and "Go Back to Texas now", about 100 protesters staged a peaceful but noisy demonstration outside Sydney's main railway station.Ringed and photographed by police, protesters waved ...
Senior Iranian cleric calls system a dictatorship » TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's most senior dissident cleric on Wednesday criticized the ruling system under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a dictatorship in the name of Islam, the most serious attack on the country's top official following the disputed presidential election.Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said the ruling system showed its true nature with the violent crackdown against the hundreds of thousands who protested President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election and the torture of de...
Thailand's "red shirts" rally again in Bangkok » BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of "red shirt" supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra rallied in Bangkok on Saturday in their biggest protest since violent street clashes two months ago.The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), better known as the "red shirts," gathered in the capital to demand that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve parliament and call an election. Six hundred police were on duty and hundreds more on standby at Sanam Luang, a public sq...
The Year Life Won in Serbia: The Otpor Movement Against Milosevic » Vision and Motivation In the 1990s, citizens of many of the Balkan states were suffering from political repression, economic hardship and sanctions. Slobodan Milosevic, the President of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, who had risen to power in 1990 on a wave of nationalist Serbian feeling, inflamed tensions between Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, and Albanians. As brutal inter-ethnic conflicts raged throughout the former Yugoslavia, Milosevic bolstered his regime by expanding the reach of the milita...
Malawi: Citizens Demand Local Councils » Lilongwe — In Malawi, local government elections are as rare and endangered as the country's black rhinoceros.In fact, it seems as if the local government elections are even more endangered than the wild animal - because at least the black rhinoceroses are slowly being re-introduced into Malawi. But for now, there seems to be little hope in sight for local government elections being re-introduced on a regular basis.This comes after the country's Electoral Commission (EC) says it has not planned ...
Georgia’s Rose Revolution (2003) » In November 2003, a revolution took place in Georgia - a revolution of a kind the turbulent region had never seen before. Not one person was injured, not a drop of blood was spilled. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest against the flawed results of a parliamentary election. The demonstrators demanded the resignation of Eduard Shevardnadze, a man who had ruled Georgia for more than 30 years i...