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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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• Egypt jails Facebook activists for 'threatening national security'

  - 2008-07-24

  CAIRO AFP — Police have arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria, and 14 of them were jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official said on Thursday. Around 30 young Egyptians who belong to the so-called "6 April" group on social...

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• S.Korea activists launch US beef boycott

  - 2008-07-03

  SEOUL AFP — South Korean activists on Thursday launched a nationwide campaign to boycott US beef as President Lee Myung-Bak issued a fresh warning against violent protests. At least four protest groups including two national women's associations denounced the government for allowing the distribution of US beef despite unabated...

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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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• Protests disrupt Olympic flame relay in Paris

  - 2008-04-07

  PARIS AFP — Pro-Tibet activists disrupted the Paris relay of the Beijing Olympic torch Monday, clashing with police and three times forcing torchbearers to extinguish the flame and take refuge on a bus. French athlete Stephane Diagana had carried the torch just 200 metres yards from the start of...

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• New arrests as Yemen government and socialists trade charges

  - 2008-04-03

  SANAA AFP — Yemeni authorities arrested more activists in the south on Thursday as they traded charges with the southern-based Yemen Socialist Party YSP over protests that led to deadly clashes with security forces. Two security men and a civilian were injured during arrests in the province of Lahj,...

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• Dozens arrested in Yemen after protests: relatives

  - 2008-04-01

  SANAA AFP — Dozens of people were arrested on Tuesday in southern Yemen, including opposition politicians, after two days of protests by local residents refused entry into the army, relatives said. They said three politicians from the Yemen Socialist Party YSP, the ruling party in former south Yemen, were...

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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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• China sees 'life or death struggle' in Tibet

  - 2008-03-18

  BEIJING AFP — China said Wednesday it was engaged in a "life or death struggle" over Tibet as dramatic footage emerged of Tibetan protesters rampaging on horseback and hoisting their national flag. With China deploying a massive security force to quash the uprising and sealing off the hotbed areas...

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