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• Sarkozy praise for Tunisian rights 'progress' sparks outrage

  - 2008-04-29

  PARIS AFP — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's remark that "the sphere of liberties" in Tunisia is improving sparked outrage Tuesday among human rights groups and the Socialist opposition in France who accuse the North African state of torturing dissidents and blocking press freedoms. "His unacceptable declaration has led him...

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• Japanese whaling ship returns to port

  - 2008-04-14

  TOKYO AFP — Japan's whaling fleet returned to port on Tuesday as authorities prepared to launch an investigation into forceful harassment by activists in the Antarctic. Escorted by patrol boats, the 8,044-tonne Nisshin Maru mother ship with 143 crew on board docked at a heavily guarded Tokyo port early...

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• We won't stop, activists tell Japanese whalers

  - 2008-01-15

  SYDNEY AFP — A militant anti-whaling group chasing Japanese whalers refused Wednesday to abandon their high-seas harassment in return for the release of two of its activists detained on board one of the ships. The standoff in the icy waters off the Antarctic has forced the government in Australia...

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• China crackdown flouts Olympic rights vow: activists

  - 2008-01-07

  BEIJING AFP — China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing. The arrest of Hu Jia, who was taken from his Beijing home on...

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• Vietnam releases US couple accused of carrying handgun

  - 2007-12-11

  WASHINGTON AFP — Vietnam has released a US couple accused of carrying a handgun and bullets after being held at the Ho Chi Minh city's airport, the State Department and US lawmakers who pushed for their release said Tuesday. The Vietnamese-Americans, Le Van Phan and his wife Nguyen Thi...

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• Belarus security forces thwart opposition rally

  - 2007-03-25

  MINSK AFP — Belarussian security forces beat back dozens of opposition activists protesting against President Alexander Lukashenko on the first anniversary of unprecedented rallies in this former Soviet republic. Hundreds of protesters were attempting to enter the vast Oktyabrskaya Square in central Minsk, site of a four-day rally following...

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• Russian riot police break up anti-Kremlin rally

  - 2007-03-24

  NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia AFP — Russian riot police arrested dozens of protestors trying to hold an anti-Kremlin rally in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday, months ahead of key national elections. Hundreds of police bundled the marchers, who were defying a ban on protests to demonstrate against the...

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• China closes down HIV/AIDS group

  - 2006-10-19

  BEIJING AFP — A non-government organization in China dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS and other health problems said it had been shut down because local authorities wanted to silence it. Chang Kun, a volunteer and organizer of the Xuelianhua AIDS project based in the western region of Xinjiang, said he was...

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• US slams China for jailing blind activist

  - 2006-08-25

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States slammed Beijing for jailing a blind activist who exposed forced abortions and other abuses of the nation's one-child policy, saying it was part of a larger attempt to curb individual rights. A court in east China's Shandong province on Thursday sentenced Chen Guangcheng, 34,...

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• US condemns Nepal crackdown on dissent

  - 2006-04-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States condemned Nepal's ban on public gatherings and detention of politicians and activists as a general strike got underway in the Himalayan kingdom against King Gyanendra's direct rule. "We're seriously concerned about the government's ongoing curbs on civil liberties and human rights, which has...

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