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Saturday, 21 February 2009

Russia: Anna Politkovskaya trial - four accused found not guilty
By: Luke Harding, The Guardian, February 19, 2009
Four men accused of helping to organise the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya were today acquitted by a court in Moscow, amid claims by human rights activists that those responsible for her death are still at large. Two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, together with a former Moscow policeman, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, were cleared of offering her killer operational support.
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General strike hits France's Caribbean possessions
By: Abayomi Azikiwe, Workers World, February 18, 2009
Trade union actions starting in January have brought Guadeloupe, a French colony in the Caribbean, to a standstill. The underlying reasons for the work stoppage stem from the global economic crisis and the total political control of Guadeloupe by the French imperialist state under the leadership of the rightist president, Nicholas Sarkozy.
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France: La grève - Republican spirit
By: Hugh Cleary, Open Democracy, February 18, 2009
When over a million French people, with the support of a vast majority in public opinion, downed telephones and keyboards on 29 January to march through town centres across the country, they were continuing the tradition of what is seen across the world as little more than a charming national idiosyncrasy.
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10 thousand in Brussels for self-determination
By: European Free Alliance, February 17, 2009
10 Thousand in Brussels for Self-determination", this is the name of the manifestation organized by Catalan organisations, that will take place in Brussels on the 7th of March. The initiative came from a spontaneous reaction of catalan people to the article "Bewildered, I?" in which the author Enric Canela highlights the current political situation in Catalunya and asks himself if it would be possible to bring thousands of people in Madrid to defend the right of Catalans to self-determination, as the American people led by Martin Luther King did in 1963, when 200.000 people met in Washington to defend the rights of black people.
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Russian activists petition to stop destructive dam
By: One World, February 16, 2009
The proposed construction of a massive hydropower station in Siberia would endanger 1 million hectacres of ecologically important forest and displace 2,000 indigenous people, warn activists.
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Council of Europe HELP Belarusian web-page
By: Belarusian Legal Portal, February 14, 2009
The Council of Europe's Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) program provides various online resources in the field of human rights, that can be used by human rights teachers communities across Europe, legal professionals, along with ordinary people interested in the protection of human rights.
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