Hacker attack shuts website of Russian opposition newspaper By: AFP, February 3, 2010 Russia's most outspoken opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, said on Monday it had complained to officials about a hacker attack which has kept its website offline for the past six days. "We filed our complaint with the interior ministry, the investigative committee, the prosecutor general and the FSB security service and we are waiting for their replies," said newspaper spokeswoman Nadezhda Prusenkova. http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/tech-times/10767-hacker-attack-shuts-website-of-russian-opposition-newspaper
Russia bids to limit protest damage By: World News Australia, February 2, 2010 Russian officials have scrambled to contain the damage after thousands of people took part in the country's biggest anti-government protest since the start of the economic crisis. The governing United Russia party led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dispatched a delegation to Kaliningrad, a western exclave bordering the EU, where protesters called for economic and political change over the weekend. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1185817/Russia-bids-to-limit-protest-damage
Analysts see notable differences between Ukrainian, Russian elections By: Peter Fedynsky, VOA, February 1, 2010 Political observers have praised the recent Ukrainian elections, saying the outcome of Sunday's second round contest between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and one of her predecessors, Viktor Yanukovych, is not predetermined. That's in stark contrast to neighboring Russia, where the 2008 election of President Dmitri Medvedev was a forgone conclusion. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky contrasts presidential elections in two former Soviet republics. http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Notable-Differences-Seen-Between-Ukrainian-Russian-Elections-83271577.html
Russia: European Parliament head condemns opposition arrests in Moscow By: Monsters and Critics, February 1, 2010 Russia should stop harassing peaceful demonstrators, the European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek said on Monday, condemning the arrest in Moscow of tens of human rights activists on Sunday. Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial human rights Centre, an NGO that received the parliament's Sakharov Prize for human rights in 2009, was among those arrested. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1530168.php/European-Parliament-head-condemns-opposition-arrests-in-Moscow
Russian activists make demands after largest anti-Putin rally By: Lucian Kim, Business Week, February 1, 2010 Russian opposition activists published a list of demands after organizing the largest anti- government protest since Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took power a decade ago. Putin should lower taxes, restore direct gubernatorial elections and fire the regional governor, according to a resolution made at a Jan. 30 protest in Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost city. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-01/russian-activists-make-demands-after-largest-anti-putin-rally.html
Riot police complain of corruption as demonstrations rock Russia By: RFE, February 1, 2010 Just as a wave of demonstrations is sweeping Russia, an elite battalion of OMON riot police in Moscow has appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev, complaining of rampant abuse among police commanders. The letter was published by the independent "Novoye vremya" magazine. http://www.rferl.org/content/Riot_Police_Complain_Of_Corruption_As_Demonstrations_Rock_Russia/1945465.html
Senior Russian opposition leaders arrested at demonstrations By: Deutsche Welle, January 31, 2010 Russian police have arrested hundreds of protesters who had gathered in Moscow and St Petersburg to protest Kremlin policies. Several opposition leaders were reportedly among the detained. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5197889,00.html
Russia: Moscow police block property owners' protest By: RFE, January 29, 2010 Dozens of Rechnik protesters drove their cars to block traffic near the busy Tverskaya Street where the mayor's office is located. Police and special OMON units eventually forced the cars to turn back and leave the street. http://www.rferl.org/content/Moscow_Police_Block_Property_Owners_Protest/1943618.html
MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA
Mousavi says he will fight for Iranians' rights By: Reuters, February 2, 2010 Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Tuesday his fight for the nation's rights will continue despite pressure by hardliners to end anti-government protests, his website reported. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6111ET20100202
Dictatorship exists in Iran despite revolution: Mousavi By: AFP, February 2, 2010 Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said Tuesday the 1979 Islamic revolution had failed to achieve its goals as the "roots of tyranny and dictatorship" that marked the shah's era still exist. The ex-premier, once rated as a key pillar of the Islamic revolution, added in a strongly worded interview posted on his website Kaleme.org that present day Iran showed the "attitude of a historic tyrant regime everywhere." http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iNKse_f0Jrah-NH1hEAaZjahAtsg
Jordan criticized for stripping Palestinian rights By: Dale Gavlak, AP, February 1, 2010 A U.S.-based human rights group criticized Jordan Monday for stripping the citizenship of nearly 3,000 Jordanians of Palestinian origin in recent years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020101901.html
Iran, with opposition protests continuing, executes more prisoners By: Nazila Fathi, NY Times, February 1, 2010 Iran experts have said that the government hastily ordered the executions of Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, 37, another political prisoner, to intimidate the opposition and to silence the protests that have persisted since the disputed June 12 presidential elections. With the government’s opponents planning another large demonstration on Feb. 11, the country is bracing for another wave of executions. At least nine other prisoners have been charged with the capital crime of moharebeh, which means waging war against God. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/world/middleeast/02iran.html
Iran opposition leaders call for protests By: CNN, February 1, 2010 Two top Iranian opposition leaders have called on supporters to protest on February 11, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, an opposition Web site reported. According to The Green Way Web site, a meeting took place Saturday between opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi at Karroubi's home. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/31/iran.protests/index.html
Iran: Shadow of extra-judicial executions looms large over dissidents By: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, January 31, 2010 Sixteen defendants currently facing a “show trial” in Tehran have been selected to intimidate specific groups of dissidents and pave the way for applying the charge of Mohareb, or “enemy of God,” to large numbers of dissidents and protestors, charges that can lead to their execution, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/01/dissident-executions/
Iran: Tehran staging of 'Galileo' reflects a nation's struggle against 'ignorance,' 'ancientness' By: LA Times, January 31, 2010 Will the truth triumph over superstition and dogma? That was the question hovering in a Tehran theater Sunday afternoon as 14 men and women in black clothes circled around the astronomer Galileo Galilei in director Dariush Farhang's sometimes nightmarish, politically loaded rendition of the 1943 play "The Life of Galileo" by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/01/iran-tehran-staging-of-galileo-reflects-a-nations-struggle-against-ignorance-ancientness.html
Iran dissidents pay a high price By: Global Post, January 31, 2010 Iran hanged two opposition protesters on Thursday and sentenced nine more to death for taking part in widespread rallies against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following last June's presidential election. It is a stark reminder to members of the Iranian political opposition and social activists of the risks of voicing dissent in the Islamic Republic. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/100125/iran-academic-dissident
Why 'active neutrality' can hasten Iran's revolution By: Mahmood Delkhasteh, Huffington Post, January 31, 2010 The democratic revolutionary uprising in Iran has not surprised most experts. Since the late nineteenth century, almost every generation of Iranians has seen at least one major upheaval or revolution. Alongside the demand for democracy in Iran, however, has always been the demand for independence. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mahmood-delkhasteh/why-active-neutrality-can_b_443853.html
Iran: Morality policy absent as more protests loom By: Jafar Farshian, IPS, January 31, 2010 Iran’s once-feared morality police, who used to crack down on un-Islamic dress, entertainment and sexual practice, have become much less visible as the oppressive regime makes tentative concessions in the face of a wave of dissent. http://www.humanrights-geneva.info/Iran-Morality-policy-absent-as,7317
Tutu presses Libya on jailed activist By: Mail & Guardian, January 31, 2010 Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Archbishop of Cape Town, has called on Moammar Gadaffi's regime to "urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Jaballa Matar, a prominent political dissident". In a statement to be issued on Monday, Tutu notes that it is almost 20 years since Matar was abducted from Cairo and sent back to Libya. http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-01-31-tutu-presses-libya-on-jailed-activist
Iran: Green tune to support protest movement By: Hamid Tehrani, Global Voices, January 29, 2010 The Green Movement (Iranian opposition) uses different ways to protest against the Iranian regime. Some Iranian bloggers proposed that people change their mobile tone into ‘Ey Iran' song, a famous and popular anthem in Iran to show their solidarity with the protest movement. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/29/iran-green-tune-to-support-protest-movement/
Middle East activists nostalgic for Freedom Agenda? By: Michael Allen, Democracy Digest, January 28, 2010 The tentative reforms and opening of political space that accompanied the Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda proved short-lived after electoral gains made by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood prompted a marked dampening of enthusiasm for reform. But the Obama administration has become even more timid, analysts suggest. http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/middle-east-activists-nostalgic-for-freedom-agenda.html
Egypt: Blogger sentenced to jail, another still in prison By: Noha Atef, Global Voices, January 23, 2010 The prominent Egypt blogger Wael Abbas has been sentenced 6 months in jail and LE 500 pounds (92 USD) as a judiciary bail, as a lawsuit was filed against him by a citizen and his police officer brother on charges of damaging an internet cable! http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/23/egypt-blogger-wael-abbas-sentenced-to-jail-another-still-in-prison-despite-judicial-release-order/
ASIA: CENTRAL ASIA
Kazakhstan under pressure to free rights defender By: Reuters, February 2, 2010 A private foundation set up by billionaire financier George Soros Tuesday urged Kazakhstan to free a jailed human rights defender, saying he was imprisoned in "an unfair trial." The ex-Soviet nation is under scrutiny from the West this year after it assumed the 2010 rotating chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on promises to bring more democracy. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/02/world/international-uk-kazakhstan-rights.html?_r=1
Kyrgyz protesters seek protection for migrants in Kazakhstan By: RFE, February 1, 2010 About 100 protesters in downtown Bishkek today demanded that the government do more to protect Kyrgyz migrant workers' rights in neighboring Kazakhstan. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Protesters_Seek_Protection_For_Migrants_In_Kazakhstan/1945436.html
Uzbekistan: Arrest of popular Uzbek commentator sparks vigorous public outcry By: Bruce Pannier, RFE, January 29, 2010 Jailings of activists are all too frequent in Uzbekistan. To the chagrin of democracy advocates, they often receive little public attention. Not so with this month's arrest of journalist Khairullo Khamidov, whose case has sparked an unusually strong wave of protest. http://www.rferl.org/content/Arrest_Of_Popular_Uzbek_Commentator_Sparks_Vigorous_Public_Outcry/1943312.html
Kyrgyzstan: Officials ban rally by supporters of jailed opposition leader By: RFE, January 29, 2010 Supporters of jailed former Kyrgyz Defense Minister Ismail Isakov have been banned from holding a rally for him in the Alay district of the southern Osh region http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Officials_Ban_Rally_By_Supporters_Of_Jailed_Opposition_Leader/1943426.html
ASIA: SOUTH ASIA
Sri Lanka: Rights of Tamil suspects violated, rights group says By: Fisnik Abrashi, AP, February 2, 2010 Sri Lanka should end the indefinite detention of some of the 11,000 people held in its custody for suspected links with the Tamil Tiger rebels, a leading rights group said Tuesday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020200110.html
Sri Lanka opposition complains of government pressure By: Fisnik Abrashi, AP, February 1, 2010 Sri Lanka's opposition accused the government Monday of hounding and detaining its activists following the country's acrimonious presidential election. http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11912347
Sri Lankan government 'settling scores' in media crackdown By: Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, February 1, 2010 The newly re-elected government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has been accused of orchestrating a fresh crackdown on the media after a series of websites were blocked and at least one reporter detained after raising questions about the conduct of the election. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sri-lankan-government-settling-scores-in-media-crackdown-1885174.html
ASIA: SOUTHEAST ASIA
Burma army frees boy after mother pleads through media By: BBC News, February 1, 2010 The army in Burma has released a 14-year-old boy it had forcibly recruited, after his mother appealed for his return on international media. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8491376.stm
Burmese still demand return of democracy By: Dayanath Singh, Assam Times, February 1, 2010 Burma’s largest political party, National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 392 seats out of total 492 parliamentary seats, in the country’s general elections of 1990, could not form its government even after its landslide victory, as the military junta regime ignored the verdict of the people and refused to hand over the power to NLD. http://www.assamtimes.org/Neighbours-World/3705.html
Burma: Palaung community women expose opium fields in junta strongholds By: Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS, January 31, 2010 A report exposing the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled Burma has brought to light an equally revealing story. It was produced by a team of ethnic women who risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50170
Arrest of Burmese journalist condemned By: RSF, January 29, 2010 Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association condemn the 13-year jail sentence passed on journalist Ngwe Soe Lin by a special court inside Rangoon’s Insein prison on 27 January. He is the second video reporter for a Burmese exile radio and TV station based in Oslo to be convicted in the space of a month. http://www.rsf.org/Another-video-reporter-gets-long.html
ASIA: EAST ASIA
China refuses to compromise over Tibet By: Gillian Wong, Huffington Post, February 1, 2010 China stuck to its hard line in its first talks with Tibetan envoys in 15 months, refusing to discuss changes to the Himalayan region's status and thus dashing hopes of a breakthrough. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/china-refuses-to-compromi_n_444211.html
Chinese dissident stranded at Tokyo airport set to return home By: Justin McCurry, The Guardian, February 1, 2010 A Chinese dissident who has spent the past three months living in limbo at Tokyo's main airport said today he would return home after apparently reaching an agreement with Beijing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/01/chinese-dissident-tokyo-airport-return
Press group slams Chinese censorship By: CNN, January 31, 2010 There are more than 60 restrictions the Chinese government slapped on the media in 2009, often secretly, according to the International Federation of Journalists. The press freedom group said it obtained written media-related orders which are published in its report, "China Clings to Control: Press Freedoms in 2009." http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/china.censorship/index.html
Hong Kong: Lawmakers resign, call for suffrage By: RFA, January 28, 2010 A group of pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong resigned Tuesday to press Beijing for the right to universal suffrage for residents of the territory. The five legislators from the Civic League and the League of Social Democrats handed in their resignations to Hong Kong's Legislative Council on Tuesday. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawmakers-01282010162045.html
AFRICA
Moroccan independent magazine faces closure By: Bikya Masr Staff, CPJ, January 31, 2010 Moroccan authorities continue to stifle free press and freedom of speech in the country, the press watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a report published January 29. According to the New York-based rights group, the independent Le Journal Hebdomadaire is under threat from the government, who has been upset at the recent articles being published. http://bikyamasr.com/?p=8133
Morocco loses a beacon of freedom By: Issandr El Amrani, The Guardian, January 30, 2010 The closure of the daring magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire is a sign of renewed authoritarianism in Morocco. Le Journal first hit the newsstands in 1997 and very quickly became one of the most daring publications in the country. It uncovered and publicised human rights abuses, taking the regime to task on its claims that it had broken with its bad old ways. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/30/morocco-le-journal-closed
Gandhi's ashes scattered off South Africa coast By: Huffington Post, January 30, 2010 Six decades after his death, some of Mohandas K. Gandhi's ashes have been scattered off the coast of South Africa, where he was confronted by racial discrimination and developed some of his philosophies of peaceful resistance. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/30/gandhis-ashes-scattered-o_n_443064.html
AMERICAS: NORTH AMERICA
US: Civil rights pioneer brings nonviolent message to Dallas By: Wendy Hundley, Dallas News, February 1, 2010 One of the key architects of the nonviolent civil rights struggle is bringing his message of faith and peace to North Texas. Violence "is the No. 1 enemy of the human race," the Rev. James Lawson told the congregation at St. Luke Community United Methodist Church on Sunday after he was introduced as a "living legend." http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-nulawson_01met.ART0.State.Edition1.4b79ce6.html
US: How the news media of the 1960s reported the civil rights revolution By: Howell Raines, NY Times, January 31, 2010 On the morning of Feb. 1, 50 years ago today, four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University seated themselves at the all-white lunch counter in a Woolworth’s dime store in Greensboro. Within hours, news of this bold act by the Greensboro Four, as they would come to be called, had grapevined its way from A&T to the campuses of historically black colleges in Atlanta and Nashville. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/opinion/01greensboro.html
Google, China and U.S. foreign policy By: Ernest J. Wilson, Huffington Post, January 31, 2010 Sitting in the lobby of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, reading the front page of the local Economic Times, I was hit with a one-two-punch: the news that Google may quit the huge Chinese market in a dispute over serious cyber attacks to its facilities in the PRC, and the feeling that I was watching the opening salvo of a new, major trend in American foreign policy that has been quietly building for several years. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernest-j-wilson/google-china-and-us-forei_b_443741.html
Obama asked why US doesn't condemn Israeli human rights abuses By: Nicholas Graham, Huffington Post, January 28, 2010 During President Obama's town hall this afternoon in Tampa, Florida, a young woman asked a pointed question about Israel and human rights that stirred up the crowd and prompted a long answer from Obama. Watch the video... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/obama-asked-why-us-doesnt_n_440816.html
AMERICAS: CENTRAL AMERICA/ CARIBBEAN
Honduras in limbo, awaits foreign aid resumption By: EU News Network, February 1, 2010 Honduras is eagerly awaiting the resumption of international aid that should have been restored after the November presidential elections but still remains blocked, officials said. The United States and other donors suspended assistance programs in Honduras after President Jose Manuel Zelaya was removed from power on June 28, 2009. http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=89689
Honduras: Zelaya supporters allege harassment By: Al Jazeera, February 1, 2010 Supporters of Manuela Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president, say they continue to be harassed by national security forces even though his term of office has ended. Some even claim police have opened fire on opposition protests while journalists allege they have been threatened with years in prison for questioning the country's constitution. Watch the video... http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/02/201021113720947588.html
Cuba: Much more frightened than me By: Yoani Sanchez, Cuba Study Group, February 1, 2010 We had a little party at our house after the classes to celebrate the first anniversary of Voces Cubanas, which in its brief life now has 26 sites. I remember that in the middle of the hugs and smiles, someone told me to be careful. “In the system as it is today, there is no way to protect yourself from attacks from the State,” I told him, with the intent to scare away my own fear. http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=6785&Month=2&Year=2010
Ex-Honduran leader leaves for exile, vows return By: Juan Carlos Llorca and Alexandria Olson, AP, January 28, 2010 Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya left his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy and flew into exile after his successor took office Wednesday, ending months of turmoil during his failed quest to be restored to power after a coup. Before boarding the plane to leave Honduras, Zelaya shouted: "We'll be back! We'll be back!" http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1449411.html
Honduras' new government finds nation 'bankrupt' after diplomatic isolation over coup By: AP, January 28, 2010 Honduras' new administration began its term Thursday saying the nation is bankrupt and will likely need international financial assistance to recover from months of diplomatic isolation over its June coup. http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-lt-honduras-new-government,0,3007183.story
AMERICAS: SOUTH AMERICA
Brazil: 'Changing lives but still machista' By: Mario Osava, Al Jazeera, January 31, 2010 There was just one woman for every seven men on the Brazilian committee that organised the first World Social Forum (WSF) meeting in Porto Alegre, the southern Brazilian city where this annual gathering of social organisations from around the world was born ten years ago. http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/2010131123719322460.html
Gruma sinks after Chavez orders Venezuela unit seized By: Nathan Gill and Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg News, January 29, 2010 Mexico’s largest maker of corn flour for tortillas, fell to a three-week low after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said last night his government will seize one of the company’s local units. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a6gfSSyHYlgU
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Why are they no Arab democracies? By: Journal of Democracy, January 2010 By the time the Journal of Democracy began publishing in 1990, there were 76 electoral democracies (accounting for slightly less than half the world’s independent states). By 1995, that number had shot up to 117—three in every five states. By then, a critical mass of democracies existed in every major world region save one—the Middle East. Fifteen years later, this exception still stands. http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/gratis/Diamond-21-1.pdf
Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' resonated behind Iron Curtain as well By: Nikola Krastev, RFE, January 29, 2010 "The Catcher in the Rye" with its immortal teenage protagonist -- the anguished, rebellious Holden Caulfield -- came out in 1951 during a time of anxious, Cold War conformity. The book struck a chord with American teenagers who identified with the novel's themes of alienation, innocence, and rebellion. But when the novel was translated into Russian during the "Khrushchev thaw," its anti-hero's tormented soul-searching also reverberated among admirers throughout the Soviet Bloc. http://www.rferl.org/content/Salingers_Catcher_In_The_Rye_Resonated_Behind_Iron_Curtain_As_Well/1943025.html
Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In lieu of flowers, organize By: Al Giordano, The Field, January 28, 2010 This segment of a Bill Moyers interview with Howard Zinn came after the production of last month's History Channel special, The People Speak: Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport, based on the works of Howard Zinn. Almost everyone who lived and organized in New England during the past many decades found yourself on a picket line or in a rambunctious assembly hall with Howard, who passed away yesterday at the age of 87 after a long life that anyone should consider successful. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3759/howard-zinn-1922-2010-lieu-flowers-organize
BOOK & FILM REVIEWS
Book dismantles female stereotypes By: Times of India, February 1, 2010 These were voices that spoke in a babel of tongues, their stories drawing from cultures as diverse and far-flung as Cambodia and Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka and Mongolia. But bound between two covers, the tales were strung together by a common theme Asian women and their fight against stereotypes and repression. The book, Speaking for Myself: An Anthology of Asian Women's Writing, was released by filmmaker Mrinal Sen at a glittering ceremony in Kolkata on Sunday evening. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Book-dismantles-female-stereotypes/articleshow/5521758.cms
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Honduras: Enorme despedida al compañero Manuel Zelaya By: Habla Honduras, January 2010 Más de 350,000 miembros de la Resistencia marchamos el día de ayer en Tegucigalpa hasta desembocar al final de la pista del Aeropuerto Toncontín, el mismo lugar donde nuestro primer mártir,Isis Obed Murillo, muriera aquel fatídico 5 de julio del 2009. http://hablahonduras.com/2010/01/28/honduras-enorme-despedida-al-companero-manuel-zelaya/
Le journaliste Alexandre Podrabinek, condamné à payer une amende et à publier un démenti sur la disparition de l’Union soviétique By: RSF, January 29, 2010 “La ‘phase judiciaire’ du combat entre le journaliste et ancien dissident russe Alexandre Podrabinek, et des mouvements réactionnaires nostalgiques de la période soviétique, a commencé à produire ses premiers résultats. Et ceux-ci sont très inquiétants. D’autant plus que le journaliste a fait savoir aujourd’hui, sur la radio Ekho Moskvy que ses proches avaient reçu des menaces”, a déclaré Reporters sans frontières, deux jours après de la condamnation du journaliste par un tribunal de Moscou. http://www.rsf.org/Le-journaliste-Alexandre.html
IN PAST NEWS
Brazil: Survival celebrates 40 years of success in campaign for tribal peoples’ rights By: Survival International, December 15, 2010 The human rights organization Survival International celebrates its 40th birthday this month, and is highlighting the huge advances in tribal peoples’ rights since 1969. Survival focuses on supporting tribes under threat, and its campaigns alongside tribal people and local organizations have achieved many remarkable successes. http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5360