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• Dissidents support an end to the travel ban

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Miriam Alonso , a founder of the dissident group Ladies in White, issued a statement in Havana on Monday saying that she and her "husband, Oscar Espinosa Chepe , fully support the lifting of the travel ban on Americans to visit Cuba." Both have been vocal critics of the Cuban government. On Thursday, Alonso ...
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• The HopeChange Chronicles: The Presidential Asia Trip Was a Flop

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 484
  Its a big goose egg . HOPECHANGE! Even the leftist New York Times is critical : It was also dispiriting that Mr. Obama agreed to allow China to limit his public appearances so markedly. Questions were not permitted at the so-called press conference with Mr. Hu, and his town hall meeting with future Chinese ...
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• Chinese critic on quake response gets 3 years

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 451
  A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to three years in prison a veteran dissident who had criticized the governments response to a 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people. Huang Qi was convicted of illegally possessing state secrets by the Wuhou district court in the western city of Chengdu, his wife Zeng Li ...
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• Police: IRA dissidents plant huge car bomb in Belfast but it fails to explode

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Irelands police commander said Sunday.
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• 400-Pound Car Bomb Found In Belfast

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland’s police commander said Sunday.
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• Spanish daily urges EU to pressure Cuba

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  The influential Spanish newspaper El Pais – normally a left-of-center daily – has sided with hardliners who would like Spain and the European Union to pressure Raúl Castro into relaxing his control of society. Here are excerpts from an editorial it published Sunday, titled "Repression in Cuba ." "Fidel Castros ...
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• Feng Zhenghu at Narita Airport

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 638
  Oiwan Lam from Global Voices has translated updates from Feng Zhenghu, an activist who has been living in Japan’s Narita Airport for nearly three weeks after the Chinese government refused him re-entry. Feng has been updated his status via a Google document and Twitter . From a November 7th update: I was ...
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• Bloggers aims, methods are questioned in an official site, in a move to discredit her

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  President Obamas responses to the questionnaire sent to him by Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez are part of a project "I choose to call Operation Marketing, intended to promote and make visible a new counter-revolutionary figure in Cuba," wrote Esteban N. Martínez Saturday in Cubadebate.com. The article, titled ...
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• Spains two top parties remove Cuba issue from nations agenda for its EU presidency

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Spains ruling Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the leading opposition group, the Popular Party (PP), on Friday signed a pact defining Spains official stance as it assumes the presidency of the European Union in January. The topics agreed upon include the economy, jobs, illegal immigration and protection from pirates ...
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• Support for blogger is sought in Spain

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Congress next Wednesday will debate a motion of support for Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez and other oppositionists, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Saturday. The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Carlos Salvador , a deputy from the Navarran Peoples Union, asks ...
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• Granma denounces report on repression

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  In another broadside at Human Rights Watchs report on repression in Cuba, the Communist Party daily Granma on Thursday called it "a futile attempt to soil the islands impeccable work on behalf of the dignity and true human rights of more than 11 million Cubans." (See our Nov. 18 blog item "Cuba rejects HRW report .") ...
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• Mideast democracy: can’t be exported or imported, but – despite dilemmas – must be supported

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The dilemmas of reconciling security and human rights, stability and reform, and external and internal drivers for change were the dominant themes running through a conference on Middle East democracy this week.The event was organized by the National Endowment for Democracy in cooperation with the National ...
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• Obama answers Cuban bloggers quiz

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has received an answer from President Barack Obama to a questionnaire she sent him and President Raúl Castro on subjects related to U.S.-Cuba relations. Castro did not respond to the questionnaire, Sánchez says in her blog, Generation Y . Here are some of Obamas responses: • "I ...
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• Obamas China visit leaves dissidents disappointed

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Although Barack Obama raised the thorny issue of human rights during his first visit to China this week he left many political dissidents those who were not locked up disappointed.
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• HRW: We favor an end to the travel ban

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  On the eve of a House committee hearing on the U.S. travel ban to Cuba, a Human Rights Watch official went on record as saying that his organization believes "lifting the travel ban represents an essential step towards ending a U.S. policy that has failed for decades to have any impact whatsoever on improving human ...
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• "Have You No Conscience?"

  
  Mambi Watch — Authority: 453
  T hats Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart [ FL-21 ] from last Monday. It seems that our favorite Congressman from Miami took the time on the House floor to remind everyone of Cubas oppressed Cuban dissident movement, and comparing their repression to Jewish persecution , and shaming members of the American press for not doing ...
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• Democrats vs. dynasties

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  A leading dissident today welcomed the prospects of Mohamed el-Baradei entering Egypt’s presidential race in 2011.Ayman Nour, imprisoned after challenging President Hosni Mubarak in the country’s first genuinely contested race in 2005, said there was “no competition” between them and he looked forward to ...
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• How low can they go?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The Mubarak regime’s harassment of Egyptian dissident Ayman Nour hit a new low today when the authorities cut off the electricity to prevent him and his supporters from watching a critical soccer game.“Even soccer we have no right to enjoy!!” one of his supporters told the Digest. “We have ZERO breathing ...
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• Cuba rejects Human Rights Watch report

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  The Cuban government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, said a Miami Herald article Wednesday, citing a report by Human Rights Watch released earlier that day. (To read The Heralds article, click here .) In response, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington issued a ...
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• New Castro, Same Cuba

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 123
  Human Rights Watch released today its 123-page report titled, “New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era,” on the state of political prisoners and repression under Raul Castro’s government.The report “shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code ...
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