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Myanmar — Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions but it remains uncertain if the reconciliation efforts will yield results...Than Shwe released Tuesday, Suu Kyi has requested...
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Cambodia's parliament stripped immunity from main opposition leader Sam Rainsy Monday, clearing the way for charges against him for uprooting markings at the border with neighbouring Vietnam. "The National Assembly has lifted the parliamentary immunity...
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Those arrested in Iran after the presidential election join the detainees from earlier moments of repression. The blogger and openDemocracy author Hossein Derakhshan is one of the latter. The anniversary of his incarceration is being marked by efforts...
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A leading Iranian opposition figure, Mehdi Karroubi, is facing possible trial in a court supervised by the country's supreme leader for alleging detainees were raped after last June's bitterly disputed election, officials confirmed today.
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Mr Karoubi had said that some of his supporters, detained after protests over the presidential poll in which he was a candidate, were raped in prison. The case will go to a clerical court, state news agency Irna reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
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The top Iranian opposition leader warned ahead of the talks between Iran and major powers in Geneva that tougher sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program could hurt the opposition movement more than the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ....
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In the letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Mr Turnbull asks the Government to release the scheme's draft regulations. November which could hand the Government a double dissolution trigger if the Opposition rejects it again. Yesterday Senator Wong wrote...
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Dr Nelson recently announced his decision to leave politics, citing personal reasons. The Liberal Party yesterday made changes to its state constitution to speed up the process of pre-selections in some situations. The party's state director Mark Neeham...
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Myanmar authorities on Saturday briefly detained Win Tin, a veteran opposition leader and the country's former longest serving political prisoner, a friend said. The 80-year-old former journalist was taken from his home in the morning for questioning...
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Shopkeepers swept glass from streets littered with burned-out cars and hungry residents braved long lines to buy bread as Gabon inched back to normal Monday after several days of postelection violence. Evidence of the chaos was still ubiquitous in Port...
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