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Russia cracks down on U.S.-linked NGOs
Kostroma :: Russia | 21 days ago
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The center's chairman, and civic activists across Russia, says his group is neither political nor in the pay of foreign governments. The law, he says, is being used to silence advocacy groups and frighten supporters and it reminds some of the Cold
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Valery Abramkin: Nuclear scientist and Soviet dissident
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Valery Abramkin, who died on 25 January aged 66 following a long illness, was a former Soviet dissident, nuclear scientist and rights activist who was held for years in the gulags and later campaigned for prison reform. Abramkin was head of the
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Europe MPs Iran visit cancelled
Tehrān :: Iran | 7 months ago
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EU visit to Iran cancelled over activist visit request Director Jafar Panahi (L) is under house arrest and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is in prison A visit to Iran by a European Parliament delegation has been called off after Tehran refused to let them
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Sakharov Prize short list announced
Strasbourg :: France | 7 months ago
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Activists, opposition representatives and a punk rock group are among the nominees for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Parliament said. Nominees include an activist from Belarus, the director of a center that provides legal
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Pussy Riot shortlisted for Sakharov Prize (News)
Berlin :: Germany | 7 months ago
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Pussy Riot, whose three female musicians were sentenced to two years in prison after staging an anti-Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral, are among the three candidates shortlisted for the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. In a
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Pussy Riot shortlisted for EU human rights prize
Strasbourg :: France | 7 months ago
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AP Music video The other finalists are the imprisoned Belarusian human rights defender, Ales Belyatsky, and a pair of Iranians, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and movie director Jafar Panahi. The winner of the EU's main human rights prize, named for the late
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Opinion: Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore
Shanghai :: China | 1 year ago
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Opinion Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore Jacques Haillot/Sygma Corbis The Russian novelist, dramatist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited Paris in February 1973. Published: May 12, 2012 THE international commotion around the blind Chinese
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Opinion: Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore
Shanghai :: China | 1 year ago
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Opinion Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore Jacques Haillot/Sygma Corbis The Russian novelist, dramatist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited Paris in February 1973. Published: May 12, 2012 THE international commotion around the blind Chinese
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Famed Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi dies
Beijing :: China | 1 year ago
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Fang died Friday in Tucson, Arizona, according to Wang Dan, a prominent student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests. "My most, most respected teacher Fang Lizhi has died," Wang wrote on Facebook. "I am immensely sad. I hope that the
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Arab Spring activists receive Sakharov prize in France
A group of activists that prompted the protests of the so-called Arab Spring today received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the President of the European Union Parliament in a ceremony in Strasbourg (France).
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