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SPECIAL SECTION: CIVIL RESISTANCE IN IRAN
Iran's history of civil insurrections
By: Stephen Zunes, Huffington Post, June 19, 2009
The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an exciting and massive outpouring of Iranian civil society for a more open and pluralistic society.
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Iranians can prepare for repression and succeed
By: Michael Beer, Nonviolent Action Network, June 19, 2009
Dictatorial states commonly use repression. Nonviolent movements can prepare and should expect violent repression. Size, diversity, intensity, solidarity, willingness to sacrifice, organization, (dis)obedience and noncooperation are some key ingredients to resilience and victory. In nonviolent revolutions change has to happen when both individuals and the collective feel an urgent need to end the current way of life.
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 Iran: Khamenei, from a position of weakness, threatens a war on youth
By: Al Giordano, The Field, June 19, 2009
The speech today makes evident that the Supreme Leader is speaking from a profound position of weakness. He can't control the latter part of his threat: "To the opposition political leaders, back down, or I'll kill many of our youths, and our propaganda machine will blame you for it." The blame and infamy for a massacre will fall on him and his regime alone. No opposition leader is going to swallow in fear thinking that he would be blamed by the people and by history for state repression against peaceful marchers.
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Iran Khodro auto workers begin work slowdown to protest the regime
By: Al Giordano, The Field, June 18, 2009
The workers of the Khodro automobile company in Iran today issued the following declaration: "We the workers of Iran Khodro, Thursday 28/3/88 in each working shift will stop working for half an hour to protest the suppression of students, workers, women, and the Constitution and declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran." This announcement is significant on multiple levels.
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Obama's sideline strategy towards Iran may signal shift in U.S. democracy policy
By: Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, June 18, 2009
Jack DuVall of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict, a nongovernmental organization that provides tools and training for political reformers and democracy activists worldwide, said it was unwise to recruit reformers instead of awaiting their calls for aid. "In our work, we don't go looking, we only respond to requests," DuVall said. "We only transfer conceptual knowledge - strategic, tactical - because outsiders won't make good decisions...because we don't know the local conditions."
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The green revolution belongs to the Iranians, not the United States
By: Cynthia Boaz, Huffington Post, June 18, 2009
There are thousands of Iranian-American pro-democracy activists who have made their presence known over the past week. The Iranian people have periodically risen up against oppressive rulers over the decades, and they don't need external forces to tell them what to do. There are numerous movements in Iran that have been organizing for years.
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Reformists seized in Iran crackdown
By: Hadeel Al-Shalchi, AP, June 18, 2009
International human rights organizations said Wednesday that many prominent activists and politicians have been arrested in Iran in response to protests over the country's disputed presidential election. Hadi Ghaemi, director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights, said he had spoken with family members and colleagues of people who have been arrested or disappeared and was told that there were at least 200 across the country.
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Would a President Mousavi bring reform to Iran?
By: Arthur Bright, CS Monitor, June 18, 2009
As opposition protests continue in Iran over the disputed election between incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hussein Mousavi, speculation has turned toward how a presidency led by Mr. Mousavi might change Iran. US President Barack Obama expressed reservations about how different a Mousavi presidency might be in a Tuesday interview with CNBC.
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Iran: From the rooftops of Tehran, cries of protest stir a student
By: Devorah Lauter, LA Times, June 18, 2009
Every night at 9, Golaleh goes to the top of her five-story apartment in northern Tehran, where she has a view of the whole city. "It's like a date," she said of the nightly rendezvous, because like clockwork voices of opposition protesters start calling out from rooftops in all directions. One man usually starts. God is great, he will shout. Then hundreds respond.
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Photos: Protests build as Iran continues media crackdown
By: The New York Times, June 18, 2009
Tens of thousands of Iranian opposition supporters held a silent protest in the streets of Tehran on Wednesday. The protest was described as calm and orderly as demonstrators walked in silence from Hafte-Tir Circle to toward the University of Tehran. Some protesters held photographs of the opposition leader, Mir Hussein Moussavi. Others lifted their hands in the air, signifying their support for Mr. Moussavi with green ribbons.
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Iranians flex the power of nonviolence
By: Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, June 17, 2009
What we're witnessing in Iran over the last several days is the power of nonviolence. Unarmed Iranians by the hundreds of thousands, and across all ages and classes, have flocked to the streets of Tehran, defying bans and brutal paramilitary squads, to demand one simple thing: that their votes be counted fairly. The democratic longing, and the democratic thronging, shows no signs of letting up.
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Iran and the woman question
By: Francesca Donner, Forbes, June 17, 2009
Against the backdrop of Iran's political turmoil, Iranian-American journalist Roya Hakakian sat down with ForbesWoman to discuss her native country's current climate and the situation facing women--and men--in Iran today. She left Iran in 1984 at the age of 18. She has not returned nor has she been permitted to return.
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Mideast hanging on every text and tweet from Iran
By: Jeffrey Fleishman, LA Times, June 17, 2009
Footage of burning cars, masked boys and bloodied protesters in Iran is playing across the Middle East, captivating Arab countries where repressive regimes have for years been arresting political bloggers and cyberspace dissidents. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni nations have tense relations with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Shiite-led theocracy ruling Iran. But they don't want protests in Tehran to inspire similar democratic fervor in their countries.
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Iran players don protest colours
By: Iran Focus, June 17, 2009
Six members of the Iranian football team have worn green armbands during a World Cup qualifying match against South Korea in Seoul. The players wore the colour adopted by the opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in an apparent show of support. Protesters in Iran who accuse the government of widespread fraud have been wearing similar green wristbands.
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In Iran, a struggle over cyberspace
By: Daniel Schorr, NPR, June 17, 2009
The "Twitter Revolution," some call it. In Iran, tyranny has run afoul of technology in the form of the Internet, turning a protest into a movement. Iran has now become the latest arena in the struggle for control in cyberspace. The Internet has effectively defeated the regime's efforts to isolate marchers from each other and from the outside world.
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Relatives: Iranian activist pulled from hospital bed, arrested
By: Ashley Broughton, CNN, June 17, 2009
A former Iranian deputy prime minister who headed a group supporting increased freedom and democracy was pulled from his hospital bed and arrested Wednesday in Tehran, his granddaughter told CNN. Ibrahim Yazdi, who is about 76 years old, is secretary-general of the Freedom Movement of Iran, said Atefeh Yazdi of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has suffered from prostate cancer, and his condition must be closely monitored, she said.
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Iran protests: Defying crackdown, Mousavi's supporters march again
By: Ian Black, The Guardian, June 17, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians protesting against the "theft" of last week's presidential election took to the streets for a fifth consecutive day today, defying a ban on rallies as the regime arrested more reformists and enforced a crackdown on media coverage. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the moderate who insists he beat the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for further peaceful protests in mosques to mourn the victims of the worst unrest since the 1979 revolution.
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Iranian protesters mostly unfazed by government warnings
By: CNN, June 17, 2009
Marching in dramatic silence, many with tape over their mouths, hundreds of thousands of Iranians kept alive public support for opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi Wednesday even as the government stepped up efforts to thwart daily protests calling for a new presidential election. Large crowds gathered in Haft-e-Tir Square in central Tehran Wednesday evening for a fifth day of protests, according to witnesses.
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US: The liberal response
By: Michael Walzer, The New Republic, June 17, 2009
Confronting mass protests in Iran, where at least some of the protesters, perhaps many of them, are our political friends, let's help them through our parties, and unions, and religious groups, and magazines. This is an ideological struggle, and that kind of struggle isn't first of all the business of governments. It is the business of politically committed men and women.
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Iran's crisis of legitimacy
By: Ramin Jahanbegloo, Huffington Post, June 17, 2009
The present crisis in Iran following the Iranian presidential elections is rooted in the popular quest for the democratization of the state and society and the conservative reaction and opposition to it. But there is another factor distinguishing the current political crisis from the previous instances of political factionalism and internal power struggles in Iran. This is a crisis over a deep-seated ideological structure inherited from the Iranian revolution.
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How the Iranian election was stolen
By: Jeremy J. Stone, Huffington Post, June 17, 2009
There is, perhaps, no greater potential for evil than the power of priests speaking in the name of God. With this power, one Iranian Ayatollah, Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi -- the spiritual leader of President Ahmadinejad -- seems to have stolen the Iranian election, to have justified the now-ongoing arrests of reformers, and to be trying to eliminate such democracy in Iran as now exists.
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Is revolution brewing in Iran?
By: Nathan Gonzalez, Huffington Post, June 17, 2009
Following the announcement by Iran's Interior Ministry that incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won reelection in an implausible landslide, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets with the kind of unbridled political anger that may have the power to escalate into full-blown revolution.
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Iran: Clerical error
By: Abbas Milain, The New Republic, June 17, 2009
The Iranian regime is currently facing one of the greatest challenges of its 30-year history. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei--whose rule has been absolute and whose words have been the law of the land--is facing the most public challenge to his authority. Khamenei has thrown his caution to the wind by unabashedly favoring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iranians bypass net-censors with high-tech tools
By: Declan McCullagh, CBS News, June 17, 2009
A new generation of Iranians has found ways to bypass the country's notoriously censorial Internet restrictions and disseminate details about Iran's internal turmoil in the wake of the recent election. In technical circles, at least, Iran is well-known for erecting one of the world's most restrictive Internet blockades, second only to China in its scope.
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Iran's human rights activists being arrested, Nobel Prize winner tells NPR
By: Mark Memmot, NPR, June 16, 2009
Security officials posing as clients entered the Tehran offices of one of Iran's leading human rights lawyers today and arrested him, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi just told NPR's Davar Iran Ardalan. That lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, spoke with Davar just yesterday -- telling her that the Iranian government should recount all the votes in last Friday's disputed presidential election.
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Iran: Framing the green revolution in red
By: Cynthia Boaz, Truthout, June 16, 2009
The gap between the mainstream media's frames on the story emerging from Iran and the news being instantaneously communicated in bits and pieces from inside the country is surreal. And here's why we should care. A media "frame" helps form the cognitive structure around our perceptions of reality.
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Iran's top cleric denounces election, rivals take to streets
By: Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, Truthout, June 16, 2009
Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main rival in the disputed presidential election, Mir Hossein Mousavi, massed in competing rallies Tuesday as the country's most senior Islamic cleric threw his weight behind opposition charges that Ahmadinejad's re-election was rigged.
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Iran: "Moussavi himself did not expect a movement of such scope"
By: Sarah Halifa-Legrand, Truthout, June 15, 2009
Moussavi's partisans are going much further than he. It is as though he were being pushed by them to take on a stature that he was not previously known for. The demonstrations surprised everybody: no one, including Moussavi, expected that the movement would take on such scope.
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AFRICA
Press release: Ghanian youth condemn political parties behavior
By: Activists Forum for the New Ghana, June 18, 2009
If political parties cannot develop the country for the benefit of Ghanaians like the youth whose future lies in the hands of our current politicians, then they should leave it the way it is now for us to come and develop. If we have the power, these two political parties (NPP and NDC) should be banned from contesting any future elections; or Ghanaians should vote a third party into power to enable these parties to go into hibernation.
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Rights abuses 'rife' in Zimbabwe
By: Al Jazeera, June 18, 2009
Zimbabwe is still suffering "persistent and serious" human rights violations despite the formation of a unity government four months ago, Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary-general, has said. Khan said members of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party still see violence as a way to "crush political opponents". During Khan's visit she met human rights activists, victims of human rights violations and senior government ministers.
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Zimbabwe: ZANU PF youths set up militia 'bases' in schools
By: Violet Gonda, SW Radio Africa, June 17, 2009
ZANU PF youths have set up bases in at least two schools in the Zvimba West constituency in Mashonaland West. The province's MDC chairman Jephat Karemba told SW Radio Africa on Wednesday that up to 20 youths in each school, wearing ZANU PF regalia, have set up base. He said although they have remained peaceful, there are fears among the teachers that violence could flare up at any time.
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Zimbabwe: WOZA members beaten and arrested during peaceful demo
By: Alex Bell, SW Radio Africa, June 17, 2009
A peaceful march by members of pressure group Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) ended in chaos in Bulawayo on Wednesday afternoon, after the group came under attack by police officials. The WOZA march, organised to commemorate International Refugee Day on Friday, consisted of four different groups marching simultaneously from different points across Bulawayo.
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South Africa: Rights activist cleared over 'Mugabe go home' poster charges
By: Lance Guma, SW Radio Africa, June 17, 2009
Efforts by police in South Africa to have a human rights activist charged for putting up 'Mugabe Go Home' posters at the venue of Jacob Zuma's inauguration, fell through this week. Kallie Kriel, who leads the civil rights initiative Afri-Forum, told Newsreel he put the posters on lampposts at the government Union Buildings last month, to protest the presence of Robert Mugabe in the country.
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Secret papers 'show how Shell targeted Nigeria oil protests'
By: Andy Rowell, The Independent, June 14, 2009
Serious questions over Shell Oil's alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Nigeria emerged last night after confidential internal documents and court statements revealed how the energy giant enlisted the help of the country's brutal former military government to deal with protesters. The documents, seen by the IoS, support allegations that Shell helped to provide Nigerian police and military with logistical support.
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AMERICAS
Peru: Images reveal full horror of "Amazon's Tiananmen"
By: Guy Adams, Truthout, June 19, 2009
First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given an extended beating by eight policemen in black body-armour and helmets. The events of Friday, 5 June, when armed police went to clear 2,000 Aguaruna and Wampi Indians from a secluded highway near the town of Bagua Grande, are the subject of a heated political debate.
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Peru Congress revokes land laws
By: BBC News, June 18, 2009
Peru's Congress has overturned two controversial land ownership laws that sparked deadly clashes between police and Amazon tribal groups. At least 34 people were killed in the clashes earlier this month. The laws were passed under powers Congress had granted President Alan Garcia to implement a free trade agreement with the US.
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Interview: Grassroots lessons from Latin America
By: Michael Fox, Toward Freedom, June 16, 2009
Michael Fox is a Brazil-based independent journalist and co-producer of the new documentary "Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas." In this interview, he talks about what lessons US activists might consider from social movements throughout Latin America, and the challenges of applying Latin American activist strategies in the US under an Obama administration.
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Change in Cuba "inevitable", says acclaimed blogger
By: Tom Brown, Cuba Study Group, June 15, 2009
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez says the island is headed for "inevitable" change since former leader Fidel Castro retired, and Cubans have become more outspoken than ever in their criticism of the government. "Change is coming, it's as inevitable as rain in the summer and cold in the winter," Sanchez told Reuters in an interview.
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It's time for a second American revolution in the spirit of perestroika
By: Mikhail Gorbachev, Transcend Media Services, June 10, 2009
Years ago, as the Cold War was coming to an end, I said to my fellow leaders around the globe: the world is on the cusp of great events, and in the face of new challenges all of us will have to change, you as well as we. For the most part, the reaction was polite but sceptical silence. In recent years, I have often told listeners that I feel Americans need their own change - a perestroika, not like the one in my country, but an American perestroika - and the reaction has been markedly different. Halls filled with thousands of people have responded with applause.
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ASIA/SOUTH ASIA
Vietnam arrests three democracy activists
By: ABC News, June 18, 2009
Authorities in Vietnam have arrested three pro-democracy activists, accusing them of colluding with a prominent civil rights attorney to sabotage the communist government, state media reported Thursday. The three allegedly violated Article 88 of the Penal Code, which bans spreading false propaganda about the state, the official Vietnam News Agency said. It said they plotted with the civil rights lawyer, Le Cong Dinh, who was arrested last week on the same charge.
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Afghan gypsies demand their rights
By: Najibullah Frotan, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, June 17, 2009
Afghan Jogi, sometimes known as gypsies, have few legal rights, despite having been in Afghanistan for hundreds of years. The Jogi say they have been in Afghanistan for 150 years, migrating from Azerbaijan, Bukhara, and other areas. But they are still living without civil rights - they are denied even the basic privilege of Afghan citizenship, the tazkira, or identity card.
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Why the case for China's lawyers doesn't look good
By: Austin Ramzy, TIME, June 17, 2009
On May 13, Beijing lawyer Li Chunfu went to the southwestern city of Chongqing with a colleague to meet with the family of a man who died in a labor camp. While meeting with the family, Li and lawyer Zhang Kai were detained by police. Li was chained to a chair and punched, while Zhang, also roughed up during their arrest, was locked in a cage. Their transgression? They were representing the family of Jiang Xiqing, a man who belonged to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
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Vietnam: Lawyer's family 'shocked'
By: Radio Free Asia, June 17, 2009
The wife of a Vietnamese lawyer arrested for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government said Wednesday that his relatives are shocked and surprised that the authorities would move against him. "To tell the truth, I have to say that so far our family is so surprised, so shocked at what has happened," Le Cong Dinh's wife, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Khanh, 33, said in a telephone interview from Ho Chi Minh City.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil Tiger leader announces 'new government' to pursue autonomy
By: Huma Yusuf, CS Monitor, June 16, 2009
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE), the rebel group recently defeated by the Sri Lankan military, have announced the formation of a "provisional transnational government" to pursue an autonomous homeland for the Tamil population. The announcement indicates that the separatist group, which was defeated last month after 26 years of conflict with the Sri Lankan Army, has not given up its struggle and is now urging the Tamil diaspora to participate in the future of the movement.
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US urges Vietnam to free lawyer
By: BBC News, June 16, 2009
The US government has said it was "deeply concerned" by the arrest in Vietnam of activist lawyer Le Cong Dinh and has called for his release. Mr Dinh was arrested on 13 June on charges of "distributing propaganda against the state." Officials said he was arrested over his defence of pro-democracy activists.
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Vietnam: Free prominent rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh
By: Human Rights Watch, June 16, 2009
The Vietnamese government should immediately free respected human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh and repeal national security laws that criminalize peaceful expression and association, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 13, 2009, police from the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Security Agency arrested Dinh on national security charges and raided his Ho Chi Minh City law office.
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Burma: Political prisoners put in solitary confinement
By: Democratic Voice of Burma, June 15, 2009
Five political prisoners in Burma's Insein prison have been put in solitary confinement after prison authorities suspected them of planning to demonstrate against the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi. Three of the detainees are reportedly in bad health. Nine Nine, a 1990 elected people's parliamentary representative who is serving 21 years, has been suffering from stomach problems for nearly 15 years, according to his wife.
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China: Christian bookstore owner sentenced to three years in prison
By: Jeremy Reynalds, Radio Free Asia, June 14, 2009
A Beijing court recently found Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan guilty of "illegal business operation" (printing Bibles for free distribution) and sentenced him to three years in prison and a 150,000 yuan (US$21,975) fine. According to a story by Compass Direct News, sources said Shi's store operated legally and sold only books for which he had obtained government permission, and that his company printed Bibles and Christian literature only for free distribution to local house churches.
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CENTRAL ASIA
Azerbaijan: NGO amendments put civil society at risk
By: Jessica Powley Hayden, EurasiaNet, June 17, 2009
Controversial amendments that would impose new restrictions on non-governmental organizations could force numerous local and international NGOs in Azerbaijan to cease operations. Some activists go so far as to say the amendments, if passed, would throttle civil society development in the country.
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EUROPE
Northern Ireland: Loyalist groups 'destroy weapons'
By: BBC News, June 18, 2009
Three loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have decommissioned weapons. It is understood the most comprehensive move was by the UVF, but the UDA and Red Hand Commando are also believed to have put some of their guns beyond use. The moves follow months of increasing pressure from the government, and secret talks amongst loyalist groups.
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Serbia: Ten years later
By: Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 17, 2009
Since the end of the U.S.-led war against Serbia, the country is slowly emerging from the wars of the 1990s. Despite lingering problems, Serbs appear to be more optimistic about their country's future than they have for decades. The United States deserves little credit for the positive developments, however, and a fair amount of blame for the country's remaining problems.
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UK: Tamil protest ends after 73 days
By: BBC News, June 17, 2009
A 73-day protest involving thousands of people demonstrating over the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka has ended. The protest featured hunger strikes, mass sit-ins blocking central London roads and people throwing themselves into the River Thames. One of those involved, Ambi Seevaratnam said: "After 73 days, nothing has worked. The Tamils have been betrayed by the international community."
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Russia: RIA Novosti draws caricatures of Lukashenka
By: Charter '97, June 17, 2009
Mass media of the neighbouring country began to use caricatures in the information war between Russia and Belarus. Russian pro-governmental information agency Novosti posted some caricatures of Alyaksandr Lukashenka on its website. One of them has the title "Rat-a-rat, this's me, cheerful dairyman", another one is titled "Milk brawler".
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Belarus: Minsk riot militia dispersed picket of solidarity with political prisoners
By: Charter '97, June 17, 2009
Youth leaders Yauhen Afnahel, Maksim Vinyarski, and other oppositionists were arrested. On June 16, activists of the civil campaign "European Belarus" came to cinema "Belarus" holding a poster "Freedom to Political Prisoners!" and portraits of Mikalai Autukhovich, Uladzimir Asipenka, and Yury Lyavonau.
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MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
"Illegal" travel bans imposed on Syrian dissidents
By: Institute for War and Peace Reporting, June 19, 2009
Mazen Darwish is not exactly a political prisoner. But for more than two years, this human rights activist has been confined within the borders of his country. Darwish, who heads the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, discovered he was banned from leaving Syria when he tried to board a plane to Morocco in April 2007.
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Israel: Beating and torturing of children
By: Jonathan Cook, Dissident Voice, June 17, 2009
The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel's security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits. The findings by Defense for Children International (DCI) come in the wake of revelations from Israeli soldiers and senior commanders that it is "normal procedure" in the West Bank to terrorise Palestinian civilians, including children.
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ARTICLE OF INTEREST
Steganography 2.0: Digital resistance against repressive regimes
By: Patrick Meier, iRevolution, June 5, 2009
A team of Polish steganographers at the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw are doing some neat work that should be of interest to digital activists. Steganography is is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity.
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NEWS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Iran: Récit des violations de la liberté de la presse en temps réel
By: Reporters Sans Frontieres, June 16, 2009
SOS Presse, la hotline pour les journalistes en difficulté. Disponible 7 jours sur 7, 24 heures sur 24 : (00 33) 1 47 77 74 14. Grâce au soutien d'American Express, cette hotline permet, en cas d'urgence, de joindre rapidement un responsable de Reporters sans frontières.
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NOTICES
Global week of action against gun violence: Disarming domestic violence
By: Communidade Segura, June 15, 2009
This week is the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence, and events are being held in 85 countries to draw attention to the human toll of small arms proliferation and misuse. In particular, women around the world are taking action through the Disarming Domestic Violence campaign led by the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). Disarming Domestic Violence is the first international campaign to protect women from gun violence in the home.
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IN PAST NEWS
China: Tibetan monk behind YouTube clip released from jail
By: WA Today, May 8, 2009
A Tibetan Buddhist monk detained for six months without charges after posting a video alleging rights abuse on YouTube has been released, two of his lawyers and an international rights group said on Thursday. The senior monk, Jigme, who like many Tibetans uses just one name, was detained after putting an account on YouTube about being abused when he was detained.
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