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• Four foreigners detained after Olympic Tibet protest: activist group

  - 2008-08-20

  BEIJING AFP — China detained four more foreign pro-Tibet campaigners after a protest early Thursday near Beijing's main Olympic venue amid a "dramatic" increase in police surveillance, an activist group said. The four were taken away in a police vehicle after three of them unfurled a Tibetan flag and...

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• In shadow of Olympics, Myanmar mourns failed '88 uprising

  - 2008-08-05

  BANGKOK AFP — As China celebrates the start of the Olympics on Friday with much fanfare, activists in neighbouring Myanmar will silently mourn the bloody end of an uprising that crushed their dreams of democracy 20 years ago. In August 1988, cities and villages across the country then known...

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• Top Myanmar activist may go blind: US

  - 2008-04-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — Military-ruled Myanmar's imprisoned pro-democracy activist Min Ko Naing may go blind after failing to receive medical treatment, the US State Department charged Tuesday. The de facto number two opposition leader after democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi "has not received care for an eye infection that,...

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• Indian capital locked down for tense torch relay

  - 2008-04-16

  NEW DELHI AFP — India's capital was barricaded and flooded with police and soldiers on Thursday for the latest and most sensitive leg of the protest-hit Beijing Olympic torch relay. With India home to more than 100,000 Tibetan refugees, including exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and radical youth...

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• Protests overshadow lighting of China's Olympic flame

  - 2008-03-24

  ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece AFP — Protests against China's human rights record and crackdown in Tibet disrupted ceremonies on Monday to light the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games. Three men from a media rights group breached tight security around Ancient Olympia to unfurl a flag demanding a boycott of...

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• Thousands rally in fresh Armenian election protest

  - 2008-02-21

  YEREVAN AFP — Tens of thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated in Armenia's capital Yerevan for a third day Friday vowing to keep protesting until the results of a presidential election are overturned. Opposition leader and former president Levon Ter-Petrosian sought to encourage a crowd of about 30,000 in the...

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• World leaders call for action on World AIDS Day

  - 2007-11-30

  PARIS AFP — Activists and global leaders used World AIDS Day Saturday to warn against complacency in fighting the disease and called on governments to fill a multi-billion-dollar funding gap. "We have made tangible and remarkable progress on all these fronts. But we must do more," United Nations Secretary...

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• Bush 'deeply concerned' at Russia arrests

  - 2007-11-26

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush said Monday he was "deeply concerned" at a crackdown on opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections, and called for their release from detention. "I am deeply concerned about the detention of numerous human rights activists and political leaders...

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• Moscow rejects US complaint over break-up of anti-Kremlin protests: report

  - 2007-11-26

  MOSCOW AFP — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday rejected US complaints about the break-up of anti-Kremlin protests over the weekend, Interfax news agency reported. "When they call on us to ensure free speech and freedom of assembly in line with our international obligations, it's a superfluous demand,...

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• Russian opposition party picks Yeltsin-era reformer for presidency

  - 2007-11-23

  MOSCOW AFP — Leaders of Russia's liberal opposition party, the Union of Right Forces SPS, on Friday nominated an architect of post-Soviet economic reform, Boris Nemtsov, as their presidential candidate. The decision comes after President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday dubbed his political opponents Western-funded "jackals," amid an increasingly tense...

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