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... politician. Moreover, the opposition has threatened more protests if Bakiyev fails to accede to their demands, including releasing what they describe as political prisoners, removing Bakiyev's relatives ...
... Participants crowded into a small room where Chaviano read a statement on behalf of the grass-roots political groups from 10 Cuban provinces. They demanded free elections, the release of all prisoners ...
... from Fidel in July 2006 Raúl has kept up repression and kept scores of political prisoners locked up, it said. "Raúl Castro's government has used draconian laws and sham trials to incarcerate scores more ...
... the government's crackdown in the streets and on media won't stop Iranians from demanding civil and political freedoms and democracy. "We want political prisoners to be released," Mousavi said. "We want ...
A doctor who examined prisoners killed and injured during Iran's post-election violence has died in mysterious circumstances, prompting speculation that he may have been murdered to prevent him speaking ...
... They become political prisoners.  They are using our own judicial system to plant seeds of terror." –Dina Mesa, journalist. "The spinal column of the repression is based in the criminalization of ...
... Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly, a body (Hawksley fails to note) that rarely meets. Together they “spent some time working out the numbers”. Cuba had about 400 political prisoners, ...
... 1989. After 28 years as prisoners in their own country, East Germans streamed to checkpoints and rushed past bewildered guards, many falling tearfully into the arms of West Germans on the other side. Eleven ...
... that instant, the word "freedom", so much devalued and abused, recovers all its pristine, primal force. That is the moment. That is the image. It's the late 20th century version of the prisoners' chorus ...
... a new websites which has been translating news articles in English into Thai making them accessible to Thai readers, particularly those from Political Prisoners in Thailand. The only news article which ...
... suspicions about the activities and intentions of the Americans in the area. Text: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/10/iran-grim-fates-for-prisoners-with-alleged-to-ties-to-foreigners.html ...
... current crackdowns are not on a scale with Stalin's Great Terror, the current atmosphere has frightened and worried many. "Political prisoners appeared almost at the same time as the arrival of Putin. ...
... prisoners... those women who refuse to stop honoring life through their actions." Video: http://www.canvasopedia.org/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=1&id=719 Text: ...
... motivated reasons. There are more than 40 political prisoners in Venezuela, and 2,000 Chavez opponents are under investigation, the groups and human rights lawyers say. "The government tries ...
An alliance of Ethiopian opposition parties may boycott elections scheduled for May 2010 unless the government releases imprisoned opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa and others they say are political prisoners. ...
... protestors being detained for speaking up for equality for Palestinians. Let’s hope that there is a similar clamour for the release of Othman – and indeed the many other Palestinian political prisoners ...
BANGKOK, Sep 23 (IPS) - Having released more than 7,000 prisoners in the last few days as part of the preparations for next year's planned polls, Burma's military rulers are up to their old tricks, according ...
... known as the "flights of death," took place at Argentina's Naval Mechanic's School, known by its Spanish acronym as the ESMA. Drugged prisoners were loaded onto cargo planes and thrown out alive over the ...
The Center for Human Rights & Development (CHRD) is a Sri Lankan NGO founded by a group of human rights lawyers and activists. It has facilitated the release of approximately 400 political prisoners ...
... to police stations, where 60 percent of prisoners are tortured into giving confessions. CVICT did research on what types of disputes were occurring, then developed a training course for community leaders, ...
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Obama in surprise Berlin Wall video address » US President Barack Obama on Monday made a surprise video address to celebrations in Germany marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall."There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny. There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom," Obama said of the fall of the concrete barrier that divided East and West Berlin for 28 years until November 9, 1989.In the message beamed into celebrations at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, once on the border between East and West Berlin, Obama told ch...
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