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Political Prisoners

My Voice

Xiaoda Xiao | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Political Prisoners, Chinese Prison Camps, China, Chinese Prison, Freedom of Speech, Writing, The Cave Man, Prison Camps, Mao Zedong, Books, Chinese Censorship, Books News
Xiaoda Xiao

Under the strict censorship regulations of the current regime in China, the publication of any literary work that shows signs of penetrating in depth, or exposing the reality of prison life is forbidden.

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New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Censorship, Political Prisoners, Blogs, Afghani Elections, New York Review of Books, Karzai, Iran, Middle East, New York Review, Tehran, Afghanistan Election, Afghanistan, New York Review Blog, Books, Nyr, Books News

The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

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How To Kill Your Friends, Big and Small

Amjad Atallah | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Human Rights Council, War, Richard Goldstone, Russia, Fatah, Israel, Plo, Political Prisoners, Hamas, Gilad Shalit, Al Qaeda, World News
Amjad Atallah

Palestinians today woke up to two news stories -- one that made them celebrate and one that made them cringe. Unfortunately, the U.S. was not involved in the celebratory story.

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The Iran and Obama Dance

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Nuclear Negotiations, Sarkozy, Nuclear Program, US-Iran Relations, War With Iran, Afghanistan, Iranian, President Obama, p5 +1, Gordon Brown, Iran, Barack Obama, Gang Rape, Political Prisoners, Iraq, Pittsburgh, Dissidents, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

It's not Obama's fault that Iraq and Afghanistan happened, but it will be his fault if he rushes into a threat-laden, pseudo-engagement with Iran at this historical crossroads in US-Iran relations.

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Hunger Strikes Expose Hugo Chávez's Myths

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Luisa Ortega Diaz, Hunger Strike, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Robert Amsterdam, Organization of American States, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Politics, Human Rights, Eligio CedeñO, Student Protest, Prison, Political Prisoners, Julio CéSar Rivas, World News
Robert Amsterdam

The decision of Venezuelan authorities to send a 22-year-old university student to prison for trumped-up crimes has caused widespread public outrage, especially among students.

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Myanmar Announces Amnesty For 7,114 Prisoners

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: National League for Democracy, Political Prisoners, General Than Shwe, Human Rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, Burma, Impact News

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's junta has granted amnesty to 7,114 convicts at prisons across the country, but it was not immediately known if they ...

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Burma, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, International Law, Democracy, Iran, Due Process, Detainees, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Courts, Political Prisoners, Justice, Asia, Yevgeny Zhovtis, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Gas, Foreign Affairs, Rule of Law, Robert Amsterdam, International Law, Democracy, United States, Barack Obama, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Central Asia, Oil, Osce, Political Prisoners, Freedom of Press, Europe, Yevgeny Zhovtis, World News
Robert Amsterdam

I fear that we might just see exactly how many barrels of oil a given dictator needs to export in order to flaunt the law.

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The Clock Ticks Ever Faster for Leonard Peltier

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Leonard Peltier, Nelson Mandela, Political Prisoners, Parole Commission, Amnesty International, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

Leonard Peltier has been in prison for a staggering 33 years, six more than Nelson Mandela. When he was locked up, Three Mile Island was three years away, and Ronald Reagan had barely begun to run for President.

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My 4 Days At Gitmo (SLIDESHOW)

Tomek Gross | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Terrorists, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detention, Terrorism, Bush and Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Prisoners, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Images, Visit to Guantanamo, Guantanamo Photos, Gitmo, Detainees, Bush Policies, Health, Guantanamo Bay, Terrosit Suspects, See Guantanamo, Political Prisoners, Slideshow, Gitmo Detainees, Us War on Terror, World News
Tomek Gross

When asked about rates of depression, mental problems, and suicide among the detainee population, the chief psychiatrist reminds us that we all suffer from anxieties and stresses.

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An Imprisoned Journalist Blogs From Inside Castro's Gulag

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba's Black Spring, Cuba, Castro, Political Prisoners, Pablo Pacheco, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Today's guest blogger is Pablo Pacheco who was arrested during what has come to be called the Black Spring in 2003.

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Do you know what a CMU is?

Sheila Shayon | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Animal Lab Testing, CMU's, First Amendment, Politics of Food, Freedom of Expression, Amy Goodman, Andrew Stepanian, Political Prisoners, Aeta, Politics News
Sheila Shayon

Animal rights activists imprisoned in secret prisons. This actually goes on in America, 2009.

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You Can Help Journalists Roxana Saberi, Euna Lee, and Laura Ling

Gotham Chopra | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Roxana Saberi, Journalists, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Axis of Evil, North Korea, Political Prisoners, World News
Gotham Chopra

Because of my friendship with Laura Ling specifically, I have spent hours at a time over the last month of her captivity agonizing over her predicament.

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Let a Thousand Blogs Bloom: Young Cubans Voice Their Discontent

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.04.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Santiago De Cuba, Cuban Olympic Athletes, Ernest Hemingway, Repression, Fidel Castro, Political Prisoners, Politics, Havana, Virgin of Charity, Raul Castro, Cuba, World, Cachita, Dissidents, Dissent, Blogging, Technology, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Young people filled with discontent and with desires to make things change, received us to hear about the Cuban blogosphere.

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President Obama Must Free Leonard Peltier

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Industry, Native Americans, Leonard Peltier, Obama, Justice, Prison Inmates, Imprisonment, Crime, Prisoners, Fbi, Amnesty International, Criminal Justice, Unfair Sentencing, Criminal Justice System, Political Prisoners, Jail, Prisons, 1970s, Politics News
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.

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A Plea From a Daughter of a Political Prisoner

Noor Elashi | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, Non-Profit Foundations, Holy Land Foundation, Human Rights Groups, Political Prisoners, Israel-Gaza Conflict, Gaza City, Bush Administration Political Prisoners, Human Rights Activism, Political Prisoners in America, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News
Noor Elashi

During this winter day in Gaza, I feel crushed knowing that my dad's now-defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation, could have come to the rescue.

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Burma - Another UN Failure

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma Human Rights, Political Prisoners, Burma Junta, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Myanmar Coverage, Myanmar Junta, Myanmar, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

The UN Secretary General turned down a request by over 100 former world leaders to visit Burma to petition the military regime to release all political prisoners. I have a friend in jail in Burma for 142 years.

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Election Amnesia: Cuba on My Mind

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Human Rights, Fidel Castro, Hillary, Obama, Mccain, Political Prisoners, Cuba, Election, Voting, Politics News
Ashley Rindsberg

With the election in the air, there are many things we've forgotten to remember. But Oscar Elias Biscet isn't one of them because, sadly, we never remembered the good Doctor Biscet in the first place.

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Al Sharpton For Human Rights in Cuba?

Roger Hernandez | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Prisoners, Human Rights Abuses, Cuba, Reverend Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton, Politics News
Roger Hernandez

Activist in black causes, Sharpton asked the Cuban gov. to allow him into the country to learn about the situation of political prisoners. But is he also concerned about imprisoned dissidents who are not black?

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