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SLOVAKIA: Velvet Touch Brings Communists Back
Bratislava :: Slovakia | 2 days ago
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As Slovaks mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism this week, former dissidents have lashed out at top political figures, including the prime minister, who they say are trying to paint the totalitarian regime of old in a positive light. Some...
Tags: communists party, communists regime, prime minister, secret police, Czechoslovakia, velvet revolution, Miroslav Kusy, Ivan Gasparovic, political prisoners, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bratislava
Cuba: Raúl Castro Imprisons Critics, Crushes Dissent
Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watchsays in a report...
Tags: HRW, political prisoners
Raul Castro maintains curbs on civil liberties
Havana :: Cuba | 4 days ago
Credibility Restrictions on civil liberties in Cuba are still harsh since President Raul Castro assumed power from his ailing brother, Fidel, three years ago, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Authorities have jailed scores of dissidents, protesters and others,...
Tags: Same Cuba, Cuban American, Raúl Castro, Human Rights Watch, Fidel Castro, president raul, Raúl Castro, political prisoners, rights group, Cuba, Havana, Vaira Vￄﾫￄﾷe-Freiberga, Rhydian Roberts, Galician people, Democratic Party, Mauricio Claver-Carone, United States embargo against Cuba, Cuba ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Opposition to Fidel Castro, Politics, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Cuba, Castro, Elizardo Sanchez, Cuban law, Law Crime, Social Issues, Politics of Cuba, Yoani Sￃﾡnchez, Cuban exile, Cuban democracy movement
Sri Lanka: 600 Tamil political prisoners held in Magazine prison without inquiry
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 5 days ago
Credibility Tamil political prisoners held in Magazine prison without inquiry [TamilNet, Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 09:39 GMT] Six hundred Tamil political prisoners are still held in Magazine prison under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and Emergency Regulations...
Tags: political prisoners, tamil political, magazine prisoners, Magazine, Colombo, protest demonstration, Sri Lanka, United National Party, TamilNet, Samaraweera, Tamil Sri Lankans, Sri Lankan people, Sinhalese people, Junius Richard Jayewardene, War Conflict, Politics, Political prisoner, Prison, Law Crime
Sri Lanka: 87 Welikada Tamil prisoners on hunger strike
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 days ago
Credibility Welikada Tamil prisoners on hunger strike [TamilNet, Sunday, 15 November 2009, 10:24 GMT] Eighty-seven Tamil political prisoners began a hunger strike protest from Saturday morning demanding guarantee for their lives and to strengthen the security for...
Tags: tamil prisoners, political prisoners, tamil political, prisoners officials, hunger strike, sinhalese prisoners, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Allegations of State terrorism by Sri Lanka, Prison massacres in Sri Lanka, Tamil Eelam, Politics, Civil disobedience, Fasting, War Conflict
Sri Lankan general aims for politics
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 10 days ago
Credibility THE Sri Lankan military chief who masterminded the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, General Sarath Fonseka, has resigned his post and is expected to run for president. The general's abrupt retirement, just months after the military triumph, has sent shockwaves...
Tags: Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan, president mahinda, Mahinda Rajapaksa, general sarath, political prisoners, army chiefs, Colombo, Mr. Rajapaksa, tamil political, Sri Lanka, D. A. Rajapaksa, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sinhalese people, Sri Lankan people, Year of birth missing, Politics, War Conflict, Chief of the Defence Staff, Military of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe, United National Party, United People's Freedom Alliance, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Pakistan Air Force, Rao Qamar Suleman, Chief of Air Staff, Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed, Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka Army, Eelam War IV, Internally displaced person, Sri Lankan Civil War, Vaharai Bombing, Politics of Sri Lanka
UN envoy asks Myanmar`s junta to release political prisoners!
Yangon :: Myanmar | 29 days ago
Credibility UN envoy asks Myanmar's junta to release political prisoners Updated on Saturday, October 24, 2009, 09:55 IST New York: Describing the human rights situation in Myanmar as "alarming", a top UN official has asked the ruling military junta to release...
Three Tibetans executed over '08 unrest: exile group
Lhasa :: China | about 1 month ago
Credibility Chinese soldiers executed three Tibetans for their role in unrest that shook the region last year, an exiles' organisation said on Thursday citing unnamed sources. The Gu Chu Sum group of former Tibetan political prisoners said the two men and one woman...
Tags: political prisoners, Lhasa
Cuba frees two political prisoners
Havana :: Cuba | about 1 month ago
Credibility They added that releasing these prisoners is a sign that Spain's new policy toward Cuba, based on mutual respect, "is getting results". Angulo was paroled on medical grounds some time ago, but was barred from leaving the country, despite his having a...
Tags: Cuban, Spain, political prisoners, cuba frees
Koreas fail to reach border-reunion deal
Seoul :: South Korea | about 1 month ago
Credibility North and South Korea were unable to reach a consensus Friday on more reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, officials said. Officials at the South Korean Unification Ministry said both sides agreed to work toward future talks, involving...
Tags: South Korean Unification Ministry, North Korean Navy, Red Cross, north koreas, political prisoners, south koreas, Koreas
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