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... assisted by the western democracies like the US and UK. They run a horizontal organisation, Otpor, or Resistance, with a fluid unidentifiable leadership spread over the country. Repressive regimes know ...
... CANVAS staff has also worked with activists from Azerbaijan, Palestine, Egypt, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe, and Burma. "It's made an important contribution," says Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European ...
... who held Mandela's hand and punched the air in triumph on that day, will lead a 500-metre march from the former Victor Verster prison in Paarl, Western Cape, to symbolise the walk that was seen by a TV ...
... interview with CNN on Tuesday, Yanukovich called on Tymoshenko to accept defeat and remember the pro-Western Orange Revolution that swept her to power. "This country has been democratic for five years, ...
... a spokesman for the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, with which Kermanshahi works. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the arrest. Kermanshahi, 25, is from Kermanshah in western Iran. ...
... Russia party led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dispatched a delegation to Kaliningrad, a western exclave bordering the EU, where protesters called for economic and political change over the weekend. ...
... declaring that his movement is still alive and gaining legitimacy. The Iranian Supreme Leader has blamed Western attitudes for student protests in the country. The Ayatollah has stated that propaganda ...
...  This suggested an Islamic Republic could bring freedom from the state oppression of the Western-backed Shah's regime. In 1979, Ayatollah Khomenei said Iran needed to return to Islamic values and cleanse ...
... human rights activist. The event took place in the western Havana home of internationally known activist Francisco Chaviano, a veteran Cuban dissident who was released in 2007 after 13 years in prison. ...
... the worst. A regional military mission should be planned. The mission’s aim should be to confront militias and protect civilians. Western countries should be ready to provide rapid air transportation and ...
11. Police or people power?
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... and compromises. Which is why politicians in Western Australia must take care with pending legislation that would increase police powers to stop and search citizens. Such law and order policies make for ...
12. Saharan activist 'facing court'
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A Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain's Canary Islands has been told to appear in court on public order charges, her supporters say. Aminatou Haidar has been refusing food at Lanzarote's ...
... that we have reached our limit of tolerance, a limit to the abuse that we have been subjected to for decades.  We say enough is enough."   As the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, ...
... scarcely aware of what was going on in the West, much less aware of one another. With their access to Western pop music limited or sometimes entirely prohibited, aspiring musicians had only a spotty knowledge ...
... wanted to go to the cinema in west Berlin, but he, then aged 11, had been too tired. Next morning, they awoke to the sound of tanks. In all his adult life, he had never been to the western half of his ...
... Sauff, 73, who lived on the Western side of the wall. "For us 'Wessis,' the few kilometers from our old home to our new home (in the East) was unthinkable." The Sauffs were among those who gathered Monday ...
Observers of the Egyptian April 6th Facebook Group and its online mobilization in 2008 lavished attention on the possibilities of so-called “Facebook activism.” Western journalists and activists alike ...
... added from rainy western Ramallah. Text: http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7598&Itemid=28    ...
19. Burma: Suu Kyi 'can play a role'
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... that the Burmese had said the conditions of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest could be relaxed if she showed what they called a good attitude. This month, Burma allowed her to meet Western diplomats, after ...
20. Betting the farm against Mugabe
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... risks." The British directors of the film, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, were also taking a huge gamble. Camera smuggling Western journalists were banned from working in Zimbabwe and by shooting a ...
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Honduras: Stop Blocking Human Rights Inquiries » The international community should strongly back the efforts of prosecutors in the human rights unit of the Honduras Attorney General's office to investigate army and police abuses in Honduras and to overturn a decree by the de facto government that severely restricts freedoms of speech and assembly, Human Rights Watch said.The organization also called on the international community to oppose any amnesty for human rights violations as part of the transition back to democratic rule. Deposed Presi...
Burma Junta Up to Old Tricks, Say Observers » 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 to Burmese activists and human rights groups. Most of those released are petty criminals, although around 200 political prisoners are among the freed. Many analysts believe these releases are intended to increase the credibility of next year's multi-party elections – the first in 20 years. B...
Authorities surround monastery; issue 48 hour ultimatum for organizers to "surrender" after latest p » Around 100 monks staged a candle-lit vigil and protest outside the government headquarters in Mangra (Chinese: Guinan) county, Tsolho (Chinese: Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Qinghai on Wednesday, the first day of Tibetan New Year (Losar), according to reports and images received by the Tibetan language service of Radio Free Asia. The images, which can be viewed on ICT's website at: URL) depict monks from Lutsang monastery holding candles in memory of Tibetans killed in the ongoing cr...
Budget Cut Rally » Students, faculty, and other members of the community joined together to show their support for education and their disagreements with Governor Jim Gibbons.  
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...
Hunger Strikers Press for Iraq’s Release of Iranian Exiles » WASHINGTON — Wednesday was the 50th day of their hunger strike, but Hamid Goudarzi, 26, and his fellow Iranian-immigrant protesters here swore they would never give up.Two Iranian immigrants, Reza Haghelahi, left, and Khalil Parsae, are part of a hunger strike outside the White House. “I’m getting weaker every day,” said Mr. Goudarzi, who gave up his job in San Antonio to join the protest. “But I’m here to the end.”He is among two dozen hunger strikers encamped a stone’s throw from the White Hou...
Iran’s Factional Disputes Grow Increasingly Bitter » CAIRO — On Wednesday, aides to Iran’s president lashed out publicly at two former presidents, the nation’s most influential dissident cleric said government officials had taken a “deviant path” and a government-aligned Web site reported that the Tehran prosecutor had been fired.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, with Sadeq Larijani, Iran’s judiciary chief. In another time, the day’s flurry of crises might be seen as extraordinary. But since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed a landslide vi...
Arrests in Chile for rights abuse » Chilean police have arrested some 25 former officials for allegedly helping to purge critics of former ruler General Augusto Pinochet.A judge on Tuesday issued 129 warrants against former members of Chile's secret police agency, Dina. They are accused of taking part in the killings and disappearances of dozens of leftists and opposition activists.
Taiwan for Tibet » Taiwanese rising up and singing for tibetan freedom movement. Pictures are of Miss Tibet's Tour of Taiwan For Tibetan Olympic Torch Relay, March 10 Procession and Candle light Vigil on the aftermath of lhasa incident.  
Students lose funding for backing MDC » JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean students studying at a South African university claim that Zimbabwe secret service agents are harassing and victimising students aligned to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party.The students, who came to Fort Hare University (FHU) on a scholarship fund started by President Robert Mugabe a few years ago, claim that a number of them have been stripped of the scholarships because of their affiliation to the MDC, the former main opposition that formed a coalition gov...