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• Liu Xiaobo Sentenced to Eleven Years

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 539
  Dissident Liu Xiaobo has been sentenced to 11 year on charges of subversion , AP reports : The sentencing of Liu Xiaobo comes despite international appeals for his release, which China sternly rejected as interference in its internal affairs. Liu was the co-author of an unusually direct appeal for political ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• NYT > World: Trial in China Signals New Limits on Dissent

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most vocal democracy advocates, faces up to 15 years in prison on charges of “incitement to subvert state power.”
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• Vietnam Charges Lawyer With Capital Crime

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  The charge of subversion against a U.S.- educated human rights lawyer intensifies a crackdown on dissent in advance of a Communist Party Congress.
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• NYT > World: Trial of Prominent Chinese Dissident Begins

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . A verdict in the trial of Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most vocal reform advocates, could come as soon as Friday.
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• Trial of Prominent Chinese Dissident Begins

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  A verdict in the trial of Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most vocal reform advocates, could come as soon as Friday.
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Noam Chomsky: Gaza, One Year Later

  
  PalCast — Authority: 120
  A report back and critical look at Gaza, one year after the invasion. Noam Chomsky is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a world renown linguists, philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist. Here, Chomsky speaks about the strategic isolation of Gaza from the rest of the ...
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• Stolen Auschwitz sign found after three days

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Warsaw (Poland), Dec. 21 (ANI): The infamous sign over the gates at Auschwitz, which reads ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (Work Sets You Free) has been found in damaged condition.Polish police found the sign that was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp after an intensive three-day hunt.Five suspects have been ...
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• Accept appeal against detention, Suu Kyi tells court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Yangon, Dec 20 (DPA) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s legal team Monday asked the Supreme Court to accept her appeal against an 18-month sentence of house detention that would make it impossible for the democracy icon to participate in next year’s planned election.“My client Daw (Madame) Aung San Suu ...
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• IMEMC: This Week in Palestine, December 18, 2009

  
  PalCast — Authority: 120
  As the Israeli military siege on Gaza leaves one patient dead, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s central committee this week renewed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ term in office. These stories and more in this week’s update. This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center ...
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• Protesters should not be punished, says Khatami

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Tehran, Dec 20 (DPA) Iranian ex-president Mohammad Khatami said that people should not be punished just for seeking their legitimate rights, the labour news agency ILNA reported Sunday.“One of the most important aspects of suppression is that people should pay a price for just getting their rights,” the reformist ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Sham Trial of Five Kurds Resumes in Syria

  
  Alliance for Kurdish Rights — Authority: 502
  The trial of five Kurds resumed this past Tuesday in Syria’s Supreme State Security Court (SSSC). The five, Monzer Resho, Gewan Mohammed Ahmed, Hassan Khalil Qiddo, Khalil Dahli and Mannan Ahmed Sido were arrested in 2008 and held almost in complete isolation ever since. They are charged with membership in the ...
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• 53 US congressmen have written a letter to Burmese junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe urging the release of Kyaw Zaw Lwin (aka Nyi Nyi Aung),

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  WASHINGTON — In a unprecedented move, 53 US congressmen have written a letter to Burmese junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe urging the release of Kyaw Zaw Lwin (aka Nyi Nyi Aung), a Burma-born US citizen who has been on a hunger strike in a Burmese prison since Dec. 4. “We urge you in the strongest possible terms to ...
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• Burma: Clinton Should Press for Release of Burmese-American

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 657
  (New York) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should publicly call for the release of imprisoned Burmese rights activist and US citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin, currently on trial in Burma on politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Zaw Lwin is in poor health partly due to a hunger strike begun on ...
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• Jonathan Mirsky: Words on Trial in Beijing

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 539
  In the New York Times , Jonathan Mirksy writes about the arrest of Liu Xiaobo and freedom of expression in China: Beijing does not engage in arguments. It simply bullies to discourage others. Zhang Zhixin, a young Chinese woman, was executed in 1975 for “opposing the Great Helmsman Chairman Mao, opposing Mao ...
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• ‘Disappeared’ Western Saharan found in Moroccan prison

  
  asvdh — Authority: 432
  Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi The brother of Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi told ASVDH that he was finally able to contact his brother personally. He visited him in the Moroccan prison of Oukacha (Casablanca) today December 17, 2009, around 10:00 for 20 minutes. The brother added that his brother began a hunger strike 10 days after his ...
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  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
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• NYT > World: Burmese Dissident Meets With Party

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The military regime in Myanmar allowed the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with senior members of her party on Wednesday.
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