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Article: 'Castro wants to release all...
Article: The Hague is Bahrami’s last hope
Article: "I slept on human bones"
Article: Deported from his own Mauritania
Article: Political prisoners in Indonesia, a brief history
The history of political prisoners in the Tropic of Emerald (a Dutch nickname for Indonesia) is centuries old. As far back as the days of the Dutch East India Company, unacceptable opinions were harshly suppressed. Overly critical...
Article: Mohamed El Sharkawi: 15 years caught up in a detention loophole
After fifteen years in administrative detention and a similar number of release orders, Mohamed El Sharkawi is still imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities with no charge against him.
Article: Journalist held in Eritrea gets trial after eight years
Dawit Isaak, a journalist who has been held without trial in Eritrea for over eight years, is to have a fair trial, Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson said on Wednesday after a meeting with an Eritrean official in Brussels.
Article: Political prisoners: instruments of oppression
The political prisoner comes from nowhere. Before he is imprisoned, he is tried. The regime, which may be openly tyrannical, has long since decided he is a suspicious person. On the street, friends and neighbours avoid him so that...
Article: Prisoners of conscience: violence as a touchstone
Was Nelson Mandela a political prisoner or a prisoner of conscience? He was held captive for 26 years on Robben Island for opposing South Africa’s apartheid regime: that makes him sound like a prisoner of conscience.
Article: RNW opens dossier on political prisoners
Radio Netherlands Worldwide is opening a dossier on political prisoners in cooperation with IDTV. The dossier initially focuses on eight stories of human rights activists and their families. All have been incarcerated or 'disappeared...
Article: US prison system sued for isolating Muslims
The US Bureau of Prisons is being sued for allegedly discriminating against Muslims by placing them in secret prisons where communication is severely restricted. The so-called "State-side Guantanamo" facilities are the targets of...
Radio Show: French left turn: Sarkozy is humiliated at regional polls
Network Europe Week - 27 March 2010 French left turn: Sarkozy is humiliated at regional polls. EU foreign policy goes federal. Freedom of a kind: Guantanamo inmates find refuge in Georgia. Pink prosecution: the general who blamed gays for...
Radio Show: Myanmar aims new election law at Suu Kyi
Newsline 11 March 2010: Myanmar changes its election law to target Aung San Suu Kyi, a UN organization alleges that World Food Programme aid to Somalia is being diverted, and was there funny business at the polls in the Netherlands’...
Article: Myanmar's empty promise to free Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar's (Burma) military junta says it will release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of this year. But there's reason to believe these words are hollow and that the 64 year-old Nobel Laureate will remain in detention.
