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Ikea Accused of Using Prisoners to Manufacture Furniture
May 04, 2012 | Newsy.com

'Women in White' protest in Cuba
March 26, 2012 | Agence France-Presse

US to exchange ambassadors with Myanmar
January 13, 2012 | Agence France-Presse

Political Prisoners Wikipedia Information

A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. It may be a prisoner of conscience, deprived of freedom of speech.In many cases, political prisoners are imprisoned with no legal veneer directly through extrajudicial processes...

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France: Candidates Pledge to Address Human Rights Issues
May 01, 2012
PARIS, May 1, 2012 - A survey of candidates for the upcoming French presidential election, which both candidates still in the race completed, reveals differences...

Caution urged in rush to embrace Myanmar
April 27, 2012
Zipporah Sein, general-secretary of the KNU. Photo: Contributor/IRIN CHIANG MAI, 27 April 2012 (IRIN) - Ethnic minority grou...

Burma: Reforms Yet to Reach Kachin State
March 20, 2012
BANGKOK, March 20, 2012 - The Burmese government has committed serious abuses and blocked humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced civilians since June...

Myanmar political prisoners held in dog cells and denied water
November 04, 2011
Nov. 4, 2011 - The Myanmar authorities must act immediately to end the ill-treatment of some15 political prisoners in Yangon's Insein Prison, where they have...

Saudi Arabia detains women protesters
July 05, 2011
July 4, 2011 - Two women remain in detention after being arrested in Riyadh on Sunday during a protest to demand fair trials for their relatives, sources told...

CECC roundtable on the Dalai Lama’s significance to Tibetans
July 15, 2011
July 14, 2011 - US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Maria Otero participated in a roundtable...

From around the web

E- mail of the day: Speaking with State Farm
April 26, 2012 | michellemalkin.com
We've stood in line to vote next to political prisoners from Cuba that were in tears because they knew what was coming. They, like my parents, have seen it with their own eyes...

' Two Rooms' tells a story of political prisoners and love
January 05, 2012 | indystar.com
Lee Blessing's drama'' Two Rooms'' addresses the phenomenon of taking hostages for political reasons, and finds a love story in it. This is what the new Acting Up Productions...

Florida Republicans to ask for the release of Cuban political prisoners
September 29, 2011 | Naked Politics
South Florida Republican U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and David Rivera will ask today for the unconditional release of several political prisoners held in...

Guest columnist: Xi's visit will be a missed opportunity if no questions are asked...
February 16, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
These are just two of thousands of political prisoners in China. The highest ranking member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China, Xi is almost certain of to take...

Praise for Myanmar release of political prisoners
January 14, 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area News -- -- SFGate
(01 - 14) 14: 02 PST YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's release of political prisoners drew praise from longtime critics of its once-authoritarian government, with...

Myanmar Frees Prominent Political Prisoners
January 12, 2012 | New York Times
Myanmar on Friday freed a number of prominent activists, including leaders of the country's 1988 pro-democracy uprising, in a step toward meeting the demands of Western nations...

Political Prisoners on twitter

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	RT @RazanSpeaks: Political prisoners in #Homs have been on a hunger strike and the regime reacted by attacking them. #Syria 2 Twitter: @ToastAndBanana
	RT @RazanSpeaks: Yday UN observers visited C. Prison of #Homs -they were misled into secondary wards to ignore demos in political prisoners’ section #Syria 1 Twitter: @ToastAndBanana
	Should political prisoners' records be scrubbed to end jobs discrimination against former inmates? http://t.co/9sqOqr6a #tweetni Twitter: @BrandonHamber
	Proud host of #Eurovision2012 #Azerbaijan by @IndexCensorship - http://t.co/BXsYLRay corruption, sleaze and political prisoners Twitter: @axialbis
	Political prisoners would be freed at once--. Twitter: @pijatuhiwexi

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Londresen ere Plazara! to the square! Bring Basque political prisoners and exiles home!
May 20, 2012

Iran Tribunal for 1980's Mass Execution of Political Prisoners
May 21, 2012

Dr. Berhanu vilifying Oromo political prisoners as "bitter," "hateful," and "racist"
May 13, 2012

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