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World News tagged with suppression

Protests as Sudan 'Tight Pants' Trial Delayed
World  (tags: human rights, women, Sudan, suppression )

Rosemary
- 119 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- Scores of protesters gathered outside a Sudanese courtroom Tuesday as the trial of a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes deemed indecent was postponed. Lubna al-Hussein
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Take Action: Join the Ladies in White in Calling for Human Rights in Cuba
World  (tags: world, cuba, freedom, human rights, civil liberties, ladies in white, suppression, arrests, prison, government, corruption, castro )

Tom
- 242 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
In 2003, activists throughout Cuba were arrested by the government and summarily tried and sentenced to as many as 28 years in prison. Today, 54 of them remain in jail, many with severe illnesses they've developed from poor prison conditions.
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Take Action: Demand Release of Detained Colombian Activists, Victims of Baseless Prosecutions
World  (tags: world, columbia, prosecutions, prison, suppression, government, crime, corruption, politics, injustice, mine workers, activists, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', violence )

Tom
- 242 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
Colombian prosecutors accuse human rights defenders of membership in a guerrilla organization and rely heavily on false testimony and inadmissible intelligence reports. Baseless prosecutions are attempts to silence and discredit human rights activists.
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Take Action: Kenyan Human Rights Defenders Killed in Cold Blood
World  (tags: world, violence, africa, killing, investigation, justice, suppression, kenya, humanrights, freedoms, government, corruption, police, murder, assassination, King'ara, Oulu )

Tom
- 242 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
Oscar Kamau King'ara and John Paul Oulu have been at the forefront of the fight against killings by police in Kenya. On March 5, they were driving to the National Human Rights Commission. According to reports, they were shot dead at point-blank range.
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Burma: Media Warned Not to Cover Protests
World  (tags: protest, media, suppression, burma, journalist )

Rabbit
- 780 days ago - worldpress.org
As the Burmese military dictatorship cracked down on protesters, killing a number of people including monks, it warned journalists not to cover or participate in the street protests that spread across the tightly controlled Southeast Asian country.
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Already It Begins: The Chinese Media Crackdown
World  (tags: censorship, media censorship, China, Yahoo, Chinese censorship, suppression )

RC
- 839 days ago - nytimes.com
The NY Times covers how China is implementing a news censorship program timed to coincide with the Communist Party convention. Yahoo implicated in giving Beijing police leads to a dissenter who tried to open the news of the world to China.
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