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- Four foreigners detained after Olympic Tibet protest: activist group
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- In shadow of Olympics, Myanmar mourns failed '88 uprising
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Bush vows to take 'message of freedom' to Beijing
- WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush, in a move likely to anger China, met with five Chinese dissidents here and told them he would take a "message of freedom" to next month's Olympic Games in Beijing. "President Bush met with five Chinese freedom activists to discuss his...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Top Myanmar activist may go blind: US
- 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,...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- Indian capital locked down for tense torch relay
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-04-16
- Protests overshadow lighting of China's Olympic flame
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Thousands rally in fresh Armenian election protest
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- No amount of experience can prepare person for presidency
- BOSTON -- Much has been made in the Democratic presidential campaign of "experience" -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's versus Barack Obama's. From the biographer's and historian's perspectives, this is an interesting point. Clinton's first political experience was as a Young Republican, then as a student activist alongside her boyfriend...
- Research articles 2008-01-19
- Rep. Tauscher survives by charting centrist path
- Eleven years ago, feisty Democrat and one-time Wall Street financier Ellen Tauscher espoused a moderate blend of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism, narrowly beating a Republican congressman in California's GOP-leaning 10th Congressional District. The district covers much of Contra Costa County and part of Alameda County. ...
- Research articles 2008-01-09
- World leaders call for action on World AIDS Day
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
- Bush 'deeply concerned' at Russia arrests
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-11-26
- Moscow rejects US complaint over break-up of anti-Kremlin protests: report
- 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,...
- Research articles 2007-11-26
- Russian opposition party picks Yeltsin-era reformer for presidency
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-11-23
- Egyptian rights activist facing new charges
- CAIRO AFP — Human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a dual Egyptian-US national, is facing a series of trials over the next two months on charges of harming the national interest, a judicial source said on Thursday. Sayed Abdel Mohsen, prosecutor general for southern Cairo, has set four trial...
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- Groups call for cut in US Iran democracy funding
- WASHINGTON AFP — A coalition spearheaded by an Iranian-American group Thursday urged Congress to cut 75 million dollars in funding for democracy promotion in Iran, saying it did more harm than good. A total of 26 organizations, including the National Iranian American Council NIAC and human rights groups, argued...
- Research articles 2007-10-11
- Iran leader says open to criticism
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's supreme leader said the country's political establishment should be open to criticism, following a rare protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state radio reported on Wednesday. "We should be wary of the day when our young people in universities do not have the motivation to raise...
- Research articles 2007-10-10
- Only surviving founding member quits Nepali Congress Party
- KATHMANDU, Sept. 26 Kyodo Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, a popular politician and the only surviving founding member of the Nepali Congress Party, quit the party Wednesday, citing its decision to abandon its traditional policy of favoring constitutional monarchy. In a letter addressed to NCP President and...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- Protests spread around Myanmar
- YANGON AFP — Pro-democracy supporters expanded their protests against Myanmar's military Tuesday, marching through the streets of the port town of Sittwe while attempting to rally in the main city Yangon. Protesters have for the last 10 days defied a clampdown on dissent by Myanmar's military regime and staged...
- Research articles 2007-08-28
- Myanmar junta arrests 50 after new protest
- YANGON AFP — About 50 pro-democracy activists were arrested Monday outside Yangon, as the Myanmar junta clamped down on dissent following a series of protests last week against a sharp hike in fuel prices. The protest was the latest in a series of bold demonstrations against the military, which...
- Research articles 2007-08-26
- Myanmar activists face legal action over fuel hike protest
- YANGON AFP — Myanmar's junta was interrogating 13 activists arrested for organising a rally against the regime over its massive hike in fuel prices ahead of likely legal action, state media said Saturday. Since first taking to the streets last Sunday, a series of peaceful protests over the fuel...
- Research articles 2007-08-25
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