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  • August 2008

    • Out of the Cyclone, Seeds of Change in Burma

      New Yorker  |  Aug 23, 08 6:51 AM CDT

      Out of the Cyclone, Seeds of Change in Burma

      (Newser) - In the wake of the ruling junta's efforts to waylay foreign aid following May's Cyclone Nargis, Burmese citizens—including former political prisoners—created a grass-roots relief effort to help the embattled populace. In doing so, writes George Packer in the New Yorker , they may have created the catalyst for long-awaited political change in a once-prosperous nation impoverished by its military rulers. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • military junta  • Burma protest  • political prisoner  • Democratic Voice of Burma

    • Kremlin Foe Denied Bid for Parole

      Associated Press  |  Aug 22, 08 10:40 AM CDT

      Kremlin Foe Denied Bid for Parole

      (AP) - A Russian court has rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's request for parole on Friday, ordering the jailed oil tycoon to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a ruling his lawyer called politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos oil company and once Russia's richest man, was sentenced to 8 years in a Siberian prison in 2005 for tax evasion and fraud in what Kremlin critics slammed as a flawed trial. More »

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      Russia  • prison  • Siberia  • political prisoner  • parole

  • June 2008

    • Rowling Casts Spell at Harvard

      Boston Globe  |  Jun 6, 08 7:10 AM CDT

      Rowling Casts Spell at Harvard

      (Newser) - Harry Potter birth mom JK Rowling yesterday urged Harvard graduates at their commencement to use their imaginations on more than wizards and muggles to envision—and create—a better world. She recalled the rewarding time she spent when she was younger working for prisoners of totalitarian regimes for Amnesty International. "Those who choose not to empathize" with people suffering "enable real monsters," she said. More »

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      Harry Potter  • Harvard  • JK Rowling  • Amnesty International  • political prisoner  • commencement speech  • wizard  • Albus Dumbledore

  • April 2008

    • Belarus Expels US Diplomats

      Associated Press  |  Apr 30, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      Belarus Expels US Diplomats

      (Newser) - Belarus ordered most of the staff of the US embassy to leave the country today, a sign of souring relations between the states, the AP reports. The top US diplomat in the former Soviet republic says all but six staffers have been ordered out within 72 hours. More »

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      political prisoner  • Belarus  • Alexander Lukashenko

  • March 2008

    • Indian 'Spy' Freed After 35 Years

      BBC  |  Mar 5, 08 7:51 AM CST

      Indian 'Spy' Freed After 35 Years

      (Newser) - An Indian prisoner has finally come home after spending 35 years on death row in Pakistan on spying charges, the BBC reports. Trader Kashmir Singh was greeted by his family and hundreds of well-wishers as he crossed the border back into India. "I have got a new life," he said. Pakistan's human rights minister persuaded President Pervez Musharraf to free Singh after learning of the case. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • India  • prison  • espionage  • political prisoner  • prisoner

  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • October 2007

    • Bush to Urge Cubans to Rise Up

      New York Times  |  Oct 24, 07 4:14 AM CDT

      Bush to Urge Cubans to Rise Up

      (Newser) - President Bush is expected to make a landmark speech on Cuba today, calling the transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his brother Raul unacceptable to the United States. The president will also address the Cuban people, urging them to resist "the force of a dying regime," reports the New York Times .   More »

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      George W. Bush  • Cuba  • Fidel Castro  • democracy  • Raul Castro  • political prisoner  • transition  • Cuban dissidents

    • 3,000 Detained in Burma, by Junta's Count

      Associated Press  |  Oct 17, 07 9:01 AM CDT

      3,000 Detained in Burma, by Junta's Count

      (Newser) - Burma’s military regime imprisoned roughly 3,000 people in last month’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the state-run newspaper announced today. Over 500 are still in custody, and more are being arrested each day. “Those who should be released will be,” the paper said. Meanwhile international outrage has prompted Japan and China to distance themselves from the regime, the AP reports. More »

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      China  • Japan  • Burma  • Myanmar  • Buddhist monks  • political prisoner

  • September 2007

    • Freed Scholar Recounts Iran Prison Ordeal

      CNN  |  Sep 10, 07 12:15 PM CDT

      Freed Scholar Recounts Iran Prison Ordeal

      (Newser) - It took a daily routine for Haleh Esfandiari to stay level-headed during her 105-day stint in Iran's notorious Evin prison. The Iranian-American scholar paced her room for 3 to 4 hours a day, read, and wrote a book in her head to ward off depression. She was treated respectfully, but "a prison is a prison," she said upon returning to the US. More »

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      Iran  • prisoners  • political prisoner  • foreign intelligence  • Haleh Esfandiari  • scholar  • Evin

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