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Yunlin court sets magistrate free after indictment
Taipei :: Taiwan | about 1 year ago
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After going on a hunger strike for 11 days to protest her detainment, Yunlin County Magistrate Su Chih-fen was set free by the Yunlin District Court Friday night after she was indicted on corruption charges earlier the same day. The court, finding there...
Tags: Taiwan International Securities, Mr. Chen Shui-bian, Chen Chih-chung, president chen, Chen Shing-yu, law huang, su chih, prosecutors question, hunger strike, Yunlin County
Jailed Ex-Taiwanese President on Hunger Strike
Taipei :: Taiwan | about 1 year ago
Credibility The lawyer for ex-Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian says his client has begun a hunger strike to protest his arrest on several counts of official corruption. Mr. Chen was detained Wednesday over allegations of graft, bribery, illegal possession of state...
Tags: Taiwan Trust, Chen Shui-bian, hunger strike, president chen, taiwan president, Cheng Wen-lung, Chen Chih-chung, Chen Yun-lin, Mr. Chen
Minister shuns Villawood hunger strikers
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Refugee Action Coalition says more than 100 detainees at Sydney's Villawood detention centre are refusing food in protest against Australia's immigration laws and are seeking a meeting with Senator Evans. "They're actually meeting to draw up a delegation...
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Facebook boosts participation in rare Saudi hunger strike
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The government studiously ignored a two-day hunger strike staged last week by Saudi human rights activists, but organizers said they were pleased with the participation and media attention that their protest drew. "They ignored us," hunger striker Fowzan...
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Saudi hunger strikers risk arrest for protest
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Saudi Arabia Mohammad al-Qahtani rose before dawn, kissed his children and prayed before embarking on the most radical act of his life: He skipped breakfast. The professor of economics is among a group of 64 Saudis staging this conservative kingdom's...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, hunger strike, saudis arabia
Sudan downplays effect of US sanctions renewal
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Sudanese government downplayed the renewal of US sanctions imposed on the East African country since 1997. Last week the White House announced an extension of “the National Emergency with Respect to the Situation in or in Relation to Sudan”. The...
Tags: Sudan, hunger strike, Ajras al-Hurria, Ajras al-Hurriya, Ajras al-Huriya, hour hunger
A real hunger for change
Ira :: Burkina Faso | about 1 year ago
Credibility Many of the reviews of Hunger , Steve McQueen’s controversial new film about the IRA hunger strikes in the early 1980s, have focused on the scenes of brutality, barbarism and suffering. But the scene I couldn’t get out of my mind was arguably the most...
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Opposition leader ends hunger strike
Bam :: Iran | about 1 year ago
Credibility Montenegrin opposition politician from the Serb List Andrija Mandić yesterday ended a hunger strike he had started 13 days earlier. Madić, protesting the Montenegrin government's decision to recognize Kosovo Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence,...
Tags: hunger strike, Andrija Mandic
Journalists on hunger strike hospitalized
Cairo :: Egypt | about 1 year ago
Credibility Journalists continued their hunger strike Wednesday against the refusal of the Journalists’ Syndicate to grant them membership. Three journalists, Mohamed Abdel Raouf and Abdu Zaky from El-Badeel, and Ramy Hussein from Al-Dostour are currently in hospital...
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Irrawaddy: Arrest the criminals, not journalists - Yeni
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 1 year ago
Credibility It’s outrageous to learn that Saw Myint Than, the chief reporter of the Rangoon-based weekly the Flower News Journal, was arrested on Monday for reporting on a murder that should have been a wake-up call to the city’s police force. According to journalists...
Tags: hunger strike, police chief, Daw Suu Kyi, Khin Yee, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, press conference
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