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• China: bearing witness too passive?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  “Those who advocate peacefully for reform within the [Chinese] constitution, such as Charter 2008 signatories, should not be prosecuted,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in her Georgetown speech this week.But she omitted to mention that Liu Xiao-bo, one of the country’s dissidents is currently being ...
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• Karnataka legislative council polls end, BJP warns dissidents

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bangalore, Dec 18 (IANS) About 98 per cent of over 93,000 members of local bodies in Karnataka voted Friday to elect 23 members to the state legislative council. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) warned dissidents as Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) talked of exploiting rebellion to bring it down the ...
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• Iran’s green opposition: like fire under the ashes – smoldering, but combustible

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  The new U.S. consensus on Iran favors ‘‘crippling’’ economic sanctions designed to derail a nuclear weapons capability, but also to possibly facilitate a democratic breakthrough, writes Brookings’ Suzanne Maloney.While the Islamic Republic’s “democratic pretenses have always been offset by its underlying ...
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• Where have all the Sakharovs gone?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  Further to this item, Moises Naim – a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy – asks where have all the Sakharovs gone?Perhaps he is looking in the wrong place. At a recent NED memorial meeting for Leszek Kolakowski, it was suggested that today’s intellectual-cum-political dissidents are more likely ...
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• Sakharov prize highlights threats to Russia’s activists

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  Russian human rights group Memorial today received the Sakharov prize, the European Parliament’s tribute to Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-winning nuclear scientist-turned-human rights campaigner. Jerzy Buzek, the parliament’s president, awarded the prize to Memorial leaders Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev, and Lyudmila ...
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• Cold in Berlin (London, Dec 16th) // Popical Island Christmas Show (Dublin, Dec 17th) // The Butterfly Explosion (Dublin, Dec 19th)

  
  Easy Music for Difficult Ears (The musical "Dallas" of Ireland) — Authority: 129
  There are three shows worth checking out this week should one be in the correct City/Country. Tomorrow night (Wednesday December 16th), Cold in Berlin will be playing their second last show of the year at Proud Galleries in Camden (London) as part of one of Forward/Slash Musics shindigs. The London quartet will have ...
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• Chinese Dissident Living in Legal Limbo in Japanese Airport

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 549
  The Times visits activist Feng Zhenghu, who has been living at Narita Airport in Tokyo for six weeks after being denied entry to China: Mr Feng is a dissident, an economist and self-taught lawyer who made a name for himself in his native Shanghai as an advisor and advocate of China’s increasing army of ...
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• ‘Principled pragmatism’ will govern US approach to promoting democracy, human rights and development

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  The Obama administration would marry principle to pragmatism in promoting democracy and human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today, invoking President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address to forcefully articulate a holistic approach that linked hujan rights and democracy to developmental ...
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• Pro-government mobs break up human rights marches

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 129
  Government supporters screaming insults and slogans broke up two tiny International Human Rights Day marches Thursday and chased away a British diplomat onlooker, pounding on his car as he drove away.Hundreds of enraged Cubans confronted a march led by Yusnaimi Jorge, wife of Darcy Ferrer, a black physician and ...
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• Democracy events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  Friday, December 11, 2009- 2 p.m. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF); and the Royal Netherlands Embassy holds a discussion on “international religious freedom,” to commemorate International Human Rights Day.Featuring Netherlands Ambassador to the United States Renee Jones-Bos; ...
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• Yusnaimy Jorge Soca on Conversa Cuba Radio

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 124
  Cuba Companionis Conversa Cuba Radio with Jorge Utset of The Real Cuba, John ODonnel Rosales,and Yusnaimy Jorge Soca, Dr. Darsi Ferrers wife talking about her ordeal today.
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• Beijing’s Repression Remains Ruthless

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 549
  A year after the release of Charter 08 and the arrest of one of its writers, Liu Xiaobo , the Financial Times looks at the current situation of dissent and repression in China: The Chinese authorities have been very successful at keeping dissidents on the margins of society. Chinese repression is ruthlessly ...
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• Internet aims to bond women religious visitation supporters

  
  Stella Borealis Catholic Roundtable — Authority: 135
  . Author Ann Carey explains her support for Vatican inquiry Women religious, upset their orders are not cooperating with a Vatican study of their religious congregations, are using the Internet to bring together like-minded souls. They have formed a Yahoo group and are working with author Anne Carey who is ...
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• Dr. Darsi Ferrers Humanitarian Fight for Human Rights in Cuba - Updated

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 124
  Update:  The Real Cuba , and Misceláneas de Cuba   report that Yusnaimy Jorge Soca has been arrested.  I posted details at Babalú .  These are photos from the December 10 2007 March for Human Rights showing Dr. Darsi Ferrer, his wife, fellow activists, and Cuban state securtiy thugs threatening and beating ...
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• Obama bears witness to democratic reformers

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  “We will bear witness…to the hundreds of thousands who have marched silently through the streets of Iran,” said President Obama in his acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony today.Referring also to “the quiet dignity of reformers like Aung Sang Suu Kyi” and “the bravery of Zimbabweans who cast ...
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• China Activist in for Long Haul at Tokyo Airport

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 549
  The BBC’s Tokyo correspondent went to visit Feng Zhenghu , who has spent over a month at Narita airport after the Chinese government banned him from entering his country: For more than a month Feng Zhenghu has been living in a no man’s land, stuck between the arrivals gates and passport control in Terminal ...
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• New Evidence Shows Poland’s Ex-Dictator Jaruzelski Guilty Of High Treason (wanted Soviet invasion)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  New Evidence Shows Poland’s Ex-Dictator Jaruzelski Guilty Of High Treason By Marcin Sobczyk What should a democratic state do with an ex-dictator, the leader of a military junta, who, due to a shady political deal with dissidents, has gone unharmed for twenty years after the collapse of his regime, and suddenly a ...
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• Inicio de la Jornada Pedro Luis Boitel

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 124
  ¡Libertad para todos los presos politicos en Cuba! H/T: Melek
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• Taiwan’s former dissidents recall Kaohsiung catalyst for democratic transition

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  In some cases it starts with a plumber scaling a Polish shipyard wall or a group of schoolchildren protesting the compulsory teaching of Afrikaans. Other times, it is activists mobilizing to challenge attempts to steal an election or referendum.Recent history provides plenty of cases in which individual or collective ...
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• Case Against Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Sent To Prosecutors

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 549
  From guardian.co.uk : Chinese police have presented the case against one of the country’s most prominent dissidents to prosecutors, after detaining him for a year. Liu Xiaobo ’s lawyer Shang Baojun said the investigators’ report alleged that the author incited the subversion of state power through articles ...
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