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Iran arrests rights activist, campaign group says » A leading Iranian human rights activist and journalist was arrested Wednesday, activists said. Kaveh Ghasemi Kermanshahi was taken by seven security agents who searched his home and took personal belongings including his computer, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement.It is not clear where he is being held."Kermanshahi is one of the most important sources of objective human rights information and analysis in Iran, and one of the few still courageously working to...
Tibet Exiles Protest Against China in Nepal, India » Thousands of Tibetan exiles demonstrated in Nepal and India on Thursday, a day before the Olympics open in Beijing, demanding religious rights and saying China should not be allowed to host the games while its harsh rule over their homeland continues.Police broke up a protest by about 2,000 Tibetans, including many monks, nuns and schoolchildren, in Nepal's capital. The protesters threw rocks and bricks at police, who retaliated by beating some of them with bamboo batons. Police official Bharat ...
Can Nonviolence Move the Next Century? » I just returned to New York after visiting Belgrade, where I interviewed (among others) Srdja Popovic, a leader of the nonviolent Otpor movement that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, and now a lively, witty, imaginative advocate for nonviolent struggle against dictatorships everywhere. There’s a fine narrative of Otpor’s progress, and Srdja’s approach to spunky nonviolence, in Tina Rosenberg’s new book, Join the Club:  How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World. Excerpts from my intervi...
Tehran's Azad University Rises Against Iran's Coup Government » On the third week of the new academic year in Iran, thousands of students from the main campus of Azad University in Tehran held several peaceful demonstrations protesting the coup government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the demonstrations that were attacked by Basiji and plain-clothes agents, students changed anti-government slogans protesting the conditions prevalent in the country and in the universities, while also insisting on their support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi. Since the ...
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...
Tourists of the Honduran Counter-Revolution » A Time magazine article of 24 October entitled “Honduran Tourism: Selling Against a Coup” explains that the post-coup decrease in foreign visitors to Honduras has led the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti to promote internal tourism:“Working with resorts and hotels on Roatán Island, a popular Caribbean dive spot off Honduras' northern coast, the de facto tourism board is promoting special two-for-one vacation deals. Many Hondurans have taken the bait, flocking to the white sands of Roatán an...
Seoul activists want probe on NKorean rights abuse » SEOUL, South Korea — A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal Thursday to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial.The group is to fly to Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, lead activist Ha Tae-keung told reporters in Seoul."Our aim is to get the arrest warrant on Kim Jong...
Tehran: Student march against government » After the opposition to the regime in Iran --PMOI, appealed for a vast commemoration of the Students day in Iran, thousands of Students march in Iranian Unis to commemorate Students day in Iran.Students March to denounce captivity and torture of their friends who have been imprisoned for beliefs. They chant ' Political student must be released' , ' imprisoned student must be released', University is not a Garrison' , ' Death to dictator'. These courageous students have lash...
Students Demonstrate in Israel » Israeli Students demonstrate against increase in tuition law.Footage taken from adjacent buildings, shows rough crowd control by Israeli police, Gets very wild at end.
London protests on opening day of genocide Olympics » 1. Banner hang over the A3 (Guildford) on the eve of the opening2. Iain Thom speaks on his return from Beijing3. Vigil at the Chinese embassy on the eve of the opening4. Protest at the Chinese embassy against the Chinese government committing and supporting human rights abuses in Burma, Tibet, Darfur and Zimbabwe (day of the opening)5. Protest at the Burmese junta's embassy to mark the 20th anniversary of 8/8/886. Tibetan flag is raised opposite the Chinese embassy at the p...