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... all legal procedures as mentioned earlier. On May 22, Tunisians living abroad took to the street in front of their country's embassies and consulates in Paris, Bonn and New York. In Tunis, dozens of ...
... writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The New Republic, among others. He is the author of To Live or Perish Forever. Text: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/maldives-democracy-popovic ...
... New York. "Kaveh has committed no crime, and his arrest is an apparent attempt to shield the authorities from scrutiny ahead of expected protests on 11 February," he added. That date marks the ...
... hopeful that the American courts will see that Union Carbide is playing a game here," New York-based lawyer Rajan Sharma said. India is marking the 25th anniversary of the leak at ...
... civil resistance. I met with Honduran writer and journalist Roberto Quesada, a former diplomatic in New York city and he is one of the organizers of the resistance movement in the United States. Quesada ...
... Reuters, CNN, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or any other media could have done, but did not do: report the real facts that were available on the ground even as the ...
... who have dared to exercise their fundamental freedoms," said the report. The New York-based group said its report was based on a clandestine fact-finding mission in June and July that conducted ...
8. Saharan activist 'facing court'
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... in New York for her "courageous campaign" for self-determination of Western Sahara. Morocco annexed Western Sahara in 1975, but the Algerian-based Polisario Front wants a referendum with full independence ...
... Vivanco, head of the New York-based Americas section of Human Rights Watch. ``The international community must send a firm message to Raúl Castro that such attacks on independent voices are completely ...
... as an extremist along the lines of Hugo Chávez. As reported in The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, the Frente Amplio lowered the unemployment rate by about half and moved the percentage of ...
... extravaganzas and much more. Now middle aged, some of the musicians who played in ostracism during those last gray years of Communist rule gathered in New York over the weekend for the festival Rebel ...
... to a villa on the prison compound, where he lived with a number of other high-profile detainees including a former vice president, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, according to the New York Times. Tajbakhsh is now ...
... health care system that would get rid of insurance companies altogether. Over the last month, more than 100 people have risked arrest at sit-ins at the offices of  insurance companies in New York, ...
... shot Gladys Ricart as she was being photographed with her wedding party.  Garcia was a respected leader in the New York’s Dominican community.  During the trial Ricart’s family and friends ...
... Hudson of the New York based Human Rights First. Investigations have shown that rights defenders are routinely subjected to surveillance and their phone calls and e-mails are illegally intercepted. The ...
About 200 citizens, including health care providers and patients, supported Medicare for All, a single payer plan, by marching to the Aetna office in New York City on Tuesday, September 29, 2009. This ...
... Go (PHIMG) in New York City on September 29th and continued in Chicago on October 8th and in 9 cities across the country on October 15th. The next wave starts on October 28th and we will continue to organize ...
... the rule of law." The New York-based Human Rights Watch, which has human rights monitors stationed around the world, also expressed shock at the brutality. "The killing of dozens of unarmed protesters ...
19. Lawyers Appeal Over Dissident
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NEW YORK—Lawyers and Chinese civil rights activists are planning to lodge formal complaints with the United Nations and the Hong Kong government over the detention of former 1989 student democracy activist ...
20. Tibetans protest Hu in NY
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Dharamsala, September 23 – The Dag Hammerskjold Plaza opposite the United Nations building in New York was filled with angry protesters yesterday as Chinese president Hu Jintao arrived to deliver his first ...
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Chinese Police Open Fire on Tibet Protestors » Chinese riot police opened fire on protestors in Tibet on Friday, killing at least two, according to reports by Radio Free Asia. Peaceful street marches by Tibetan Buddhist monks over the past few days have given way to the biggest and angriest demonstrations the region has seen in nearly two decades, with armed anti-riot police patrolling the streets just months before the Beijing Olympics.The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy says that after a small, peaceful protest by monks on Fr...
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Colombia rights defenders say they're under constant attack » BOGOTA -- Human rights defenders in Colombia are under constant attack for their work, facing murder, death threats, illegal surveillance, arbitrary detentions and prosecutions, activists told a congressional panel in Washington on Tuesday.Speaking before the House Human Rights Commission, Colombian activist Gabriel Gonzalez recounted how he spent more than a year in jail on charges of being a member of the country's leftist guerrillas. A judge threw out the charges as baseless, but the ruling w...
Fishermen protest Fuel Prices » Riot police armed with shields and batons charged hundreds of protesting fishermen outside European Union headquarters Wednesday after a demonstration over high fuel prices turned violent.Protesters hurled flares, firecrackers and rocks at police beyond razor-wire barricades. They also fired flare guns at the EU headquarters building. As they retreated down the main boulevard through Brussels' European Union district, protesters broke into EU buildings, smashing windows and dragging out flags ...
Headstrong Honduran ruler resists world pressure » TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Roberto Micheletti, the headstrong veteran politician who took power in Honduras when President Manuel Zelaya was toppled, is defying international pressure to reinstate his old friend and end media curbs. Despite repeated warnings from the United States, the European Union and Latin American governments, Micheletti appears to believe they will all buckle in the end and drop demands that Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 army coup, be returned to power.He is betting th...
Chinese peaceful protest and assembly in Toronto » TORONTO rally that was billed as promoting "anti-violence" turned hostile on Saturday as flag-waving Chinese denounced Tibetans who they blamed for the recent turmoil in Tibet in which 100 are said to have died. Close to 1000 Chinese were in Toronto's Dundas Square for the afternoon event, many of them students. "Dalai Lama die there!" some Chinese shouted at a group of Tibetans who had gathered across the street from the square to protest. "Leave Canada!" others urged. Tibetans say the Chines...
MDC boycotting Zimbabwe cabinet » Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said his MDC party has "disengaged" from the unity government over the treatment of his senior aide.He said all outstanding issues of a power-sharing deal had to be dealt with before the MDC would work with Zanu-PF. Senior MDC member Roy Bennett was later released on bail after two days in prison, but Mr Tsvangarai's spokesman insisted the boycott would continue. Mr Bennett was detained for alleged arms and terrorism offences.
Police fire on S African protests » South African police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators protesting against poor living conditions during a rally in the country's northeast.Riot police opened fire on Tuesday to disperse protesters who had torched a municipal office in the eastern town of Belfast, the Associated Press news agency said, quoting Captain Leonard Hlathi, a police spokesman.Two police officers were injured by stone-throwing demonstrators, the spokesman said.
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...
Ousted Honduran president vows peaceful resistance » TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya vowed on Saturday to return to power through peaceful means and denied he was rallying groups of armed supporters near the border with Nicaragua.Zelaya, in exile in Nicaragua, also lamented the death of one of his supporters who was shot during a protest last week. The man died of his injuries early on Saturday, as efforts to resolve the crisis over the June 28 coup remained stalemated.