The secretary-general of the Organization of American States, a former political prisoner, and the sister of a current political prisoner in Cuba comprised an expert panel in the meeting.
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I am a political prisoner and they won't let me free.
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"If you support the terrorists, it's not political prisoner," he added.
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Alaa was the second political prisoner to disappear from probation recently.
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He always maintained his innocence, even calling himself a political prisoner.
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Ms de Lima strongly denies the charges, calling herself a "political prisoner".
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Don't then come like a sissy saying that you're a political prisoner.
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The Russian human rights group Memorial declared Ms. Sharina a political prisoner.
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Seeing himself as a political prisoner, he also refused to renounce violence.
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Arrest orders had different columns; one for 'political prisoner' and so on.
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I'm not going to be a political prisoner in the state of Oregon.
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When I put it on, they thought I was a French political prisoner.
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Proud of having been a political prisoner, he feared jail for financial crimes.
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In a tweet it later erased, the PT called Lula a "political prisoner".
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Mutinous security forces supporting him had released the country's most famed political prisoner.
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NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt said defining who was a political prisoner was "complicated".
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Donald Trump called for the release of a prominent political prisoner on February 15th.
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NLD stalwarts such as Aung Shin, a former political prisoner, have welcomed China's hospitality.
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Simonovis was a political prisoner under former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and under Maduro.
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"They say that she's a political prisoner, but she's guaranteed due process," he fumes.
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Mr. Entezam was believed to have been the longest-serving political prisoner in Iran.
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Nelson Mandela two days after his release after 29 years as a political prisoner.
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Forty years ago, my father, the journalist Jacobo Timerman, was also a political prisoner.
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Now, he is serving a 12-year sentence and considers himself a political prisoner.
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"I don't think they've looked carefully because I am a political prisoner," he said.
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He wasn't in Kotelnich as a criminal or political prisoner, he was just there.
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"He was a political prisoner, so, by definition, he was a hero," Kwaśniewski recalled.
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He now sits locked in a jail cell, a political prisoner, rights activists say.
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Blankenship had portrayed himself as a "political prisoner" victimized by overzealous prosecutors of Barack Obama.
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"I'm not going to be a political prisoner in the state of Oregon," he added.
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"I am returning home today from a long exile, a freed political prisoner," Blagojevich said.
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Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese political prisoner and Nobel peace laureate, died at the age of 61.
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Banksy posted a letter written to him by Turkish-Kurdish artist and political prisoner, Zehra Doğan.
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Leopoldo López, the country's most prominent political prisoner, had been transferred to house arrest in July.
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Not since Soviet times has a case of a political prisoner in Russia caused such furore.
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At 15, he became a "political prisoner" in Buchenwald concentration camp and was threatened with sterilization.
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He is a retired lieutenant colonel from the Venezuelan Army and former political prisoner (2014-2015).
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Former mid-level Yukos manager Alexei Pichugin, jailed since 2003, remains Russia's longest serving political prisoner.
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Take the case of Alexey Pichugin, identified in the report as Russia's longest-serving political prisoner.
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Those appeals are particularly poignant given Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's history as a political prisoner.
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He remains the longest serving Russian political prisoner -- a forgotten pawn in the Yukos chess match.
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"This is the closest thing I've seen to a true political prisoner in America," Rech said.
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Saudi Arabia The person thought to be Saudi Arabia's youngest political prisoner is just 18 years old.
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You know, you get a political prisoner in exchange you get the visit of a former president.
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You know, you get a political prisoner -- in exchange you get the visit of a former president.
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Gupta said his father was a political prisoner during India's fight for independence from colonial ruler Britain.
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Opposition leaders called his arrest an effort to quash dissent and describe Ceballos as a political prisoner.
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Russian rights activists regard Dadin, an outspoken critic of Putin and his policies, as a political prisoner.
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Since then, he has become the most prominent political prisoner in Latin America, if not the world.
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" In 2013, Getachew Reda, Desalegn's spokesman repeated, "We don't have any single political prisoner in the country.
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And yet he had spent six weeks as a political prisoner, an experience that seemed utterly senseless.
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"Calling for his release is not just about letting another political prisoner out of jail," he said.
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Lopez Rivera had been championed as a political prisoner by "Hamilton" playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda and other celebrities.
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General Asamnew was a former political prisoner sentenced in 2009 for his alleged role in another failed coup.
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The White House called Liu a "political prisoner" in a statement on his death, released after Trump's remarks.
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"I would describe it as a common sense explanation that I was a political prisoner," he added. Sen.
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And a famed political prisoner, Leopoldo López, took refuge in the Chilean Embassy just hours after being freed.
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Ali Moezzi, a political prisoner in Iran, a man subjected to torture and medical neglect, has gone missing.
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This saved my life because it doesn't show the number of a Jew, but of a French political prisoner.
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Russian rights activists regard Dadin, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and his policies, as a political prisoner.
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When the Turkish government refused to hand over a political prisoner, he imposed sanctions that wrecked the Turkish currency.
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As a revolutionary guerrilla leader, Mugabe fought white-minority rule and spent years in jail as a political prisoner.
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Peterson has a way of making even the mildest pronouncement sound like the dying declaration of a political prisoner.
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Aung San Suu Kyi knows better than anyone what it is like to be a political prisoner in Myanmar.
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Gary Tyler, an African-American inmate in C.C.R., said that the teachings made him consider himself a political prisoner.
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Aya Hijazi, a US citizen formerly held as political prisoner in Egypt, said it was a nightmare come true.
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"We continue demanding the liberation of every single political prisoner," the grouping of opposition organizations said in a statement.
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He described the beauty of the Moscow subway system, built by slave labor from Joseph Stalin's political prisoner archipelago.
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The police say Ms de Lima took bribes from drug-traffickers; Ms de Lima says she is a political prisoner.
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Then in 2008 he allowed democratic elections, which were won, to general surprise, by Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner.
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Grimm's insisting that he was a political prisoner and his candidacy could hobble Donovan, and not just in the primary.
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It's not in the interest of either country for Mr. Namazi, or any other political prisoner, to die in jail.
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In June 2012, political prisoner and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsy, became Egypt's first democratically-elected President.
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In June 2012, Mohammed Morsy, political prisoner and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, became Egypt's first democratically elected president.
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In June 2012, political prisoner and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsy, became Egypt's first democratically elected President.
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"I believe in Mother Suu forever," said Zaw Htet, a former political prisoner who joined the trip to The Hague.
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Rights groups have urged the former political prisoner to prioritize the issue of prisoner releases when the new government is formed.
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Many Rohingya rooted for Suu Kyi, who had been a political prisoner, believing she would put an end to their persecution.
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López was a high value political prisoner, so footage of him walking free powerfully undermined Maduro's credibility as commander in chief.
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In his speech, Selahattin Demirtas on Wednesday described himself as a "political prisoner," devoid of the right to a fair trial.
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In 1974, Solzhenitsyn, the novelist, dissident, and former political prisoner, was deported from the Soviet Union and stripped of his citizenship.
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Thein Than Oo, a lawyer and former political prisoner, said he had been imprisoned twice under the "harsh and unjust" law.
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Here's what you need to know: • Liu Xiaobo, China's most famous political prisoner, is in critical condition, according to his doctors.
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Dostoevsky — socialist, political prisoner, addicted gambler, epileptic, reactionary thinker and visionary artist — did plenty abyss-gazing and his testimony is overwhelming.
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At the time of arrest, Qureiris was considered by lawyers and activists to be the youngest known political prisoner in Saudi Arabia.
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It was the only mainland media mention of Miao, 51, the last political prisoner arrested over the 1989 protests to be freed.
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It was Pence who ushered the wife of a Venezuelan political prisoner into the Oval Office for a historic meeting with Trump.
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"Venezuela should allow Leopoldo Lopez, a political prisoner & husband of @liliantintori (just met w/ @marcorubio) out of prison immediately," the president tweeted.
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Russian officials have said they view her as a political prisoner who did nothing wrong and had been targeted for political motivations.
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Molina, played by William Hurt, is a gay man jailed for soliciting minors; Valentin, played by Raul Julia, is a political prisoner.
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Guo was a "veteran political prisoner" whose voice had been silenced for demanding reforms, said Zhang, who lives in the United States.
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Rima, a former political prisoner from Madaya, arrived in Idlib divorced with no local family ties or male relatives to protect her.
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I have a wife whom I love and who now has to carry the burden of being married to a political prisoner.
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Joining the performance on screen, live from Sweden, was Antoine Vumilia Muhindo, a Congolese actor, writer, stage director and former political prisoner.
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A decade later war turned her city to rubble and her husband was hauled to a concentration camp as a political prisoner.
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Morsi may be the most high-profile political prisoner, but human rights groups have said there's widespread abuse and torture within Egypt's prisons.
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"Vyshka", one of the university's student news outlets, ran their first story about Zhukov's arrest with the headline "The first Vyshka political prisoner".
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also spoke twice to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about her incarceration, calling her a political prisoner.
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The White House called Liu a "political prisoner," and offered "heartfelt condolences" to Liu Xiaobo's wife, Liu Xia, and his family and friends.
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That's why it's more important than ever for the United States and the international community to get behind Pashinyan, a former political prisoner.
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Haddad has struggled to both stand by Lula, whom the PT considers an unjustly convicted political prisoner, and also acknowledge the party's errors.
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I think because I am also the daughter of an ex–political prisoner, they [felt they] could open up straight away to me.
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Former political prisoner Wei Jingsheng, who spent about 18 years in jail, was released at the request of former US president Bill Clinton.
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Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent political prisoner and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died, still silenced and under guard at a government hospital.
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Daniel Bekele, a former political prisoner and Africa director at New York-based Human Rights Watch, now heads the government's human rights commission.
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Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent political prisoner and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died under guard at a state hospital today at 61.
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Relations between Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner, and the military are seen as crucial to the success of her government.
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The U.S. embassy in Nicaragua condemned the use of lethal force against Montes, calling him a political prisoner in a post on social media.
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"Political Prisoner" (1971), one of her bronze sculptures on view at the gallery, depicts a woman with arms bound by cuffs behind her back.
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And Kim Song Hye, who was in charge of the working-level discussion with Kim Hyok Chol, was sent to a political prisoner camp.
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"If the government is going to postpone the general election ... it will anger the public," former political prisoner Merera Gudina told Reuters by phone.
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Since then, he has cast himself as a "political prisoner" and the victim of vindictive labor unions, the federal government and the court system.
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The political-prisoner-turned-NLD-politician is a founding father of one of the most popular forces in the country today—Burmese hip-hop.
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"There were 52 political prisoners among those released today," said Bo Kyi, joint secretary of political prisoner watchdog Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
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In fact, the regime consistently brings him cases when it seeks to make an example of a political prisoner it regards as especially dangerous.
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Mr. Chen's case was rare in that the authorities released a political prisoner after a lengthy detention and allowed him to leave the country.
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But Michael Tamba, a former Congolese political prisoner, came closest to death only after he had supposedly found sanctuary at Europe's biggest refugee camp.
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" Shortly after the judge's decision, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Mr. Timerman in which he called himself a "political prisoner.
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Robert Mugabe, the former political prisoner, first black leader of an independent Zimbabwe, and unrepentant strongman, has died, the nation's current president announced Friday.
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As a former political prisoner herself, Richardson felt Suu Kyi should have a greater understanding for the men's plight and that of their families.
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Suu Kyi is a former political prisoner who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 but her reputation has suffered badly in recent years.
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Cliven himself was arrested in February and remains in federal custody, where he claims he's being held as a "political prisoner" by President Barack Obama.
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"Venezuela should allow Leopoldo Lopez, a political prisoner & husband of @liliantintori (just met w/ @marcorubio) out of prison immediately," Trump said in a Twitter post.
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Behind the scenes: A pivotal moment came in early 2017, when Lilian Tintori, the wife of political prisoner Leopoldo Lopez, met Trump in the Oval.
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The Ethiopian government, which had previously detained Nega as a political prisoner for two years in Addis Ababa, now sentenced him to death in absentia.
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Mr. Gilbert began with a crisp, stirring performance of Beethoven's overture to "Fidelio," an opera about a woman who rescues her husband, a political prisoner.
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My friend Jarallah Omar al-Kuhali was a human rights activist, a former political prisoner, and the deputy secretary-general of the Yemeni Socialist Party.
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Blagojevich has defiantly rebuked critics of his commutation -- and even referred to himself as a "political prisoner" in a recent interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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Yet within three weeks, Mr. Pashinyan, a former newspaper editor and political prisoner, had galvanized a civil disobedience movement that transformed the country's political landscape.
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Here's what you need to know: • Rights advocates around the world are mourning Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent political prisoner and a Nobel peace laureate.
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BEIJING — As Liu Xiaobo, China's most famous political prisoner, lay dying under police guard, he struggled to finish what was probably his last written work.
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"...I was dismissed as deputy head of the Catalan government after (Madrid took control)... and because of that I believe I am a political prisoner".
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It's like comparing yourself to a political prisoner when you get arrested for jaywalking Damore intends to sue Google for the way he was fired.
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As the music subsides into searching, suspenseful quiet — the escaped political prisoner Angelotti is fumbling in a shadowy church — de Sabata draws out mournful undercurrents.
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Mr. López is the country's most well-known political prisoner, sentenced to nearly 14 years after having led street protests against Mr. Maduro in 2014.
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Tahir Imin, a Uighur activist in the United States and a former political prisoner, said Uighur American groups are working to raise money for Yusuf's case.
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The opposition has long called Lopez a political prisoner, and leaders around the world, including U.S. President Donald Trump, had been pressing for his full freedom.
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It has also increased repression against the opposition, including imprisoning several leaders of Voluntad Popular, the party of Leopoldo López, a political prisoner since February 13.
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As a political prisoner, he has access to a few amenities: a refrigerator, a television and a stove, according to reports in the local news media.
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His father, Gustavo Gac-Artigas, a writer and playwright from Chile, was arrested as a political prisoner there in 1973 and eventually exiled from his country.
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Rached Jaïdane, 56, a former political prisoner who has faced his torturers in a continuing case in the special court, welcomed the publication of the report.
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The title character of "Fidelio" (1814) is a woman posing as a boy to work for Rocco so she can rescue her husband, a political prisoner.
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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's best known former political prisoner, Amaya Coppens, is calling for international organizations to investigate alleged abuses by the government of President Daniel Ortega.
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That put him at odds with Ms. Mark-Viverito, who continued to lionize Mr. Lopez Rivera, whom she calls a freedom fighter and a political prisoner.
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My father was a political prisoner, but the way they organized the camps, he was mixed in with bandits, murderers and every other type of criminal.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was herself a political prisoner and spent 15 years under house arrest at the hands of the country's former military government.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE 'PRISONER OF THE STATE' "How he mocked me," a villainous official laments, explaining why he locked away the political prisoner he now wants killed.
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Suu Kyi herself spent the best part of 21 years under house arrest for standing up to the military, becoming the world's most famous political prisoner.
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The most compelling work and story in the show is that of Htein Lin, a former student revolutionary and political prisoner turned artist and Theravada Buddhist practitioner.
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As the son of a former Cuban political prisoner, I am eager to see immigration reform, and I am sympathetic to those who feel the political frustration.
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That D'Souza's nearly got himself sent to jail by constantly whining about being a political prisoner—his preening alienated the judge in his case—is not mentioned.
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When Myanmar's military regime released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, in 2010, she had been the world's most famous political prisoner for nearly two decades.
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Board members were particularly moved by a statement they said demonstrated "maturation and insight" and marked a reversal to Bell's previous claims of being a political prisoner.
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Others showed their support by changing their social media profiles to a picture of Suu Kyi, who was a political prisoner for years before coming to power.
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In the process, he helped shed light on the forces to which he himself fell victim in the 1980s as a political prisoner of the Soviet regime.
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His ghostly installation, "A Show of Hands," features hundreds of white plaster casts of raised right hands, each one an index of a political prisoner like himself.
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A scriptwriter for this film, Max Mönch, had an aunt who was a political prisoner, and she told us more about the harrowing experience of women there.
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Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — On July 8, the government of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela delivered its most well-known political prisoner, Leopoldo López, to his home.
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The libretto sets the opera in a prison near Seville, where Florestan, a Spanish nobleman, has been held as a political prisoner by the corrupt prison governor.
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The death on Thursday of China's most prominent political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, set off a frenzied effort by government censors to block online discussion of his legacy.
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El-Salahi is a founding member of the Khartoum School, former Undersecretary in Sudan's Ministry of Culture and Information, and a former political prisoner in his home nation.
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By his side stood Leopoldo López, the country's most famous political prisoner, who had been freed from house arrest by his guards from SEBIN, the feared intelligence service.
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Odinga, a 72-year-old former political prisoner who was running for president for a fourth time, had flatly rejected the preliminary results as "fake" the day before.
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So not only is Barça imploring us to stand in solidarity with criminal activity, but their language veers dangerously into co-opting the language of political prisoner protest.
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"We never expected that Aung San Suu Kyi would get us this far," a former student activist and political prisoner who once served as her bodyguard told me.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said the Russian government views her as a "political prisoner" who did nothing wrong and had been targeted for political motivations.
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Sources close to Savchenko, considered a political prisoner and hero by many in her native Ukraine said she had planned to deliver a speech scathing of the Kremlin.
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Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven's sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state.
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Mr. Guaidó tried to jump-start the drive to remove Mr. Maduro on Tuesday, appearing at a military base alongside Leopoldo López, the country's best-known political prisoner.
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That in itself was striking: one of the activists in attendance was Azamjon Farmonov, a former political prisoner who spent 11 years in a notorious prison camp, Jaslyk.
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A former political prisoner and exile, he was up for election for the first time and was voted into parliament, where he may seek the position of speaker.
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BEIJING — The death on Thursday of China's most prominent political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, set off a frenzied effort by government censors to block discussion of his legacy online.
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In the dead of night Leopoldo López, the country's most prominent political prisoner, was transferred from the Ramo Verde military prison to his house, where he will remain confined.
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Joe Manchin, and the victims' families all blame him, but he says he is a political prisoner, a victim of a system that prosecutes based on beliefs, not facts.
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Held for seven months — during which the United States State Department classified him as a "political prisoner" — he was released in February this year and placed under house arrest.
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His untimely death reminded the international community of the appalling treatment experienced by China's political prisoners -- more than 1,400 of which are contained in the CECC's Political Prisoner Database.
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"Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's 'Witch Hunt'" is publicly available on Amazon as an e-book ahead of its publication later this year.
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He even released a book called Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt," giving what he says is an account of what happened.
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Ms. Núñez, a former Sandinista who was held as a political prisoner in 1970s, said the repression Nicaraguans are experiencing today was far worse than anything the Somozas did.
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The latter is led by Fadwa Abbas, a writer and teacher who immigrated to the United States at age 14 from Sudan, where her father was a political prisoner.
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Mr. da Silva has portrayed himself as a political prisoner and has resisted pressure from some in the party to anoint a successor who can be on the ballot.
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Books News During his years as a political prisoner from 1962 to 1990, the future South African president Nelson Mandela didn't know if he would live another day free.
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Cooper challenged Blagojevich's label, noting that Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa who had earlier been imprisoned for 27 years for fighting apartheid, was a political prisoner.
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The former newspaper editor and political prisoner galvanized a civil disobedience movement that transformed the country's political landscape in just three weeks, forcing aside the longtime president, Serzh Sargsyan.
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In 1970, he was detained as a political prisoner; after his release in 1971, he came to the United States and taught at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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"He's a hard worker, he's humble and he can unite us," said Lilian Tintori, whose husband, Leopoldo López, is Venezuela's most well-known political prisoner and Mr. Guaidó's mentor.
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The lower house of the new Parliament elected U Win Myint, a lawyer from Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's political party and a former political prisoner, as its new speaker.
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Sexwale is a former political prisoner jailed alongside Nelson Mandela and served as Premier of Gauteng province, South Africa's economic heartland, and later as a cabinet minister in South Africa.
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Since Mr. da Silva began serving a 12-year sentence in April of last year, they have campaigned at home and abroad for his release, calling him a political prisoner.
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"The South effectively backed the North's system by sending them back," said Jung Gwang-il, a former political prisoner in North Korea who runs a human rights group in Seoul.
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As he sits facing an American flag in a federal courthouse, Ammon Bundy, 41, is choosing to wear blue-and-pink prison scrubs and depict himself as a political prisoner.
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"Congratulations on the progress that has been made," he told Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest as a political prisoner when Mr. Obama was elected president.
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Here was a problem for a psychologist—or, better, for a novelist, one who understood Communism from the inside and knew what it was like to be a political prisoner.
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Still, Cosby maintains his innocence — he's even gone so far as to refer to himself as a "political prisoner," comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela.
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An ethnic Albanian, Xhaka was born in Basel to Kosovar parents who emigrated from the former Yugoslavia after his father Ragip spent three-and-a-half years as a political prisoner.
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Irish rockers U2, who had campaigned for Suu Kyi's release while she was a political prisoner, also voiced disappointment and said her silence was "starting to look a lot like assent".
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Ng's supporters have labeled him Australia's first Chinese political prisoner over the circumstances of his arrest and conviction in China, which followed his successful acquisition of a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
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"Development can only be sustained when people are secure," said Wai Wai Nu, a former political prisoner under Myanmar's military government who is now founder and director of Women Peace Network.
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The former political prisoner has repeatedly come under criticism for her lack of action to help the Rohingya, a stark contrast to her previous image as a champion of human rights.
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The bellwether case of repression in Putin's Russia today is that of the country's longest-serving political prisoner, Alexei Pichugin, who recently marked 85033 years in detention and whom I represent.
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Mr. Wong is among more than 100 people who have been convicted on charges related to the Umbrella Movement, and many of his pro-democracy followers considered him a political prisoner.
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While Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner in 1991, controls the country's civilian government, she has no authority over Myanmar's military.
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In December 2013, that skill resulted in the release of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia's wealthiest man, who had spent a decade as President Vladimir V. Putin's most prominent political prisoner.
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But the Maduro government, which rejects use of the term "political prisoner," has said all politicians and members of the security forces in detention face legitimate criminal charges, including coup-plotting.
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MOSCOW — The Uzbek government, lobbied by rights groups and pressured quietly by the United States to free a high-profile political prisoner, has finally revealed a secret: He died five years ago.
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Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner and champion of democracy in then military-ruled Myanmar, came to power last April after a landslide election win, installing her confidant, Htin Kyaw, as president.
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But "prisoner of the state" does try to revise the story of Beethoven's only opera, "Fidelio," in which a woman disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband, a political prisoner.
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Hector Caraballo, a former political prisoner in Cuba who founded the Miami-Dade Cuban American Democratic Club, said no one familiar with Mr. Sanders's political career could be surprised by his views.
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Hector Caraballo, a former political prisoner in Cuba who founded the Miami-Dade Cuban American Democratic Club, said no one familiar with Mr. Sanders's political career could be surprised by his views.
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TUNIS — Like many of his fellow torture victims, Sami Brahim, a former political prisoner, did not expect much when he testified at the opening of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission in November.
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Here's what you need to know: • Rights advocates around the world are grieving for Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent political prisoner and a Nobel Peace laureate who died of cancer at 210.
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This timeline charts Suu Kyi's journey from political prisoner to leader of her troubled nation: June 19, 1945: Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Myanmar's independence hero General Aung San, is born.
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Sexwale is a former political prisoner who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela and served as Premier of Gauteng province, South Africa's economic heartland, and later as a cabinet minister in South Africa.
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Five years later, when An's father Khoa Bui—who had been a political prisoner in Vietnam—and wife came to the States, they found their children working odd jobs all over the city.
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But others seethed, saying that the 72-year-old former president, who is the front-runner in the presidential election set to take place in October, was about to become a political prisoner.
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Within a few weeks, she received a phone call of congratulation from another former political prisoner— Václav Havel, the dissident Czech playwright who, in 1989, had become his country's first post-Communist leader.
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The story is told through characters representing different aspects of Soviet life, from the ex-political prisoner who survived years in the brutal gulags to the Soviet official who ratted out non-communists.
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Even when you work on behalf of a family in the case of a political prisoner, if you become too arrogant and think you are "the" channel, you're setting yourself up for surprises.
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Rod Blagojevich on Friday declared himself a "political prisoner" in a contentious interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper over the substantial evidence prosecutors used to convict him on a host of public corruption charges.
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"I am so happy because Castro destroyed my family in more than one way," said Jose Gutierrez-Solana, 75, who had been a political prisoner for 10 years and is the group's secretary.
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Ferrer's partner, Nelva Ismarays Ortega, said that during a visit Ferrer told her police threatened to charge him with a fabricated common crime so he would not be heralded as a political prisoner.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said on Thursday he was a political prisoner and insisted his region had the right to secede from Spain.
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Mr. Liu is China's most famous political prisoner, and now what is likely to be his short time still alive has become a source of contention with human rights advocates and Western governments.
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By day's end, news spread of another blow to the opposition: Leopoldo López, the political prisoner who heads Mr. Guaidó's party, had fled into the Chilean Embassy, along with his wife, Lilian Tintori.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam on Thursday defended its decision to revoke the citizenship of French-Vietnamese dissident Pham Minh Hoang, a former political prisoner who is accused of breaking the law and threatening state security.
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Some of these, like in the town of Hormigueros were dedicated to Oscar López Rivera, the Puerto Rican freedom fighter who was held as a political prisoner by the United States for 35 years.
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At the time Tintori was on her way to visit Lopez in a jail where he'd previously been held for three years as a political prisoner, and where police are now holding him again.
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He's a Black Briton who can't get the English teaching job he's more than qualified for because interviewers see him as a "troublemaker"; she's an India-born nurse whose father is a political prisoner.
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"President Donald J. Trump was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement.
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The President's solution, he said, was to imprison the more confrontational Leopoldo López, which had made him an international symbol of the "martyred political prisoner" and, by contrast, made Capriles look like an accommodationist.
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The White House and members of Washington's political class paid their respects Thursday to the Nobel-winning Chinese political prisoner and human rights activist Dr. Liu Xiaobo after he died Thursday from liver cancer.
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Mr. Liao, a former political prisoner who fled China in 2011, had a list of six names and a request for Mr. Gauck: Raise the plight of political prisoners when you meet Chinese leaders.
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Rodriguez Aguilera, who served as a member of the Doral City Council and is the daughter of a Cuban political prisoner, runs a business that helps women in other countries run for public office.
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I offered to read Li Po or Du Fu or any of the ancient poets I had grown up memorizing, but instead it was arranged for me to read poetry by a political prisoner.
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When Odinga, a 0003-year-old former political prisoner, called a news conference after days of public silence, crowds clustered around televisions and radios in the slums, falling silent as he began to speak.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear programme should be accompanied by talks to address alleged human rights violations there including torture and political prisoner camps, the United Nations said on Monday.
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Then, when a stint as a political prisoner led to him fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship, he went to the UK as a refugee and settled there, where he found a job in a steel mill.
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Sessions denies colluding with Russian officials; Senate Republicans remain mum on their health care bill; North Korea releases a US political prisoner who it says has been in a coma for more than a year.
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MADRID, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said on Thursday he was a political prisoner and insisted his region had the right to secede from Spain.
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The US embassy in Venezuela expressed concern over the incident, after an American political prisoner Joshua Holt, a former Mormon missionary from Utah, posted a video on social media saying he feared for his life.
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Phyo Min Thein, 47, a former political prisoner and rising star of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, has rejected the allegations as being intended to defame him.
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The scene in question is the first appearance of Florestan, a political prisoner wasting away in a dungeon when his brave wife, Leonore, takes a job at his prison in hopes of getting him out.
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A survivor in Ukraine's often treacherous politics, Mr. Lutsenko had spent time in jail as a political prisoner, won a seat in Ukraine's Parliament and served as interior minister, holding senior positions under three presidents.
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"Aya and I -- again, under two different administrations -- are living testaments that the United States government has leverage it simply chooses not to use or uses at its will," former political prisoner Mohamed Soltan said.
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"I don't think criminal prosecution alone is going to solve what has happened in my country," said Mohammad Al Abdallah, a two-time political prisoner who directs the Syria Justice and Accountability Center in Washington.
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Odinga, 72, a former political prisoner and self-described leftist, described the reported hack as an attack on Kenya's democracy and published 50 pages of computer logs on his Facebook page to support his claims.
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A former guerrilla and longtime political prisoner during the era of white supremacy that ended with independence under Mr Mugabe in 1980, for the next two decades he was minister of state security and of justice.
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In particular, the country's de facto leader Aung San Su Kyi — who herself was a political prisoner for many years — was criticized by human rights organizations and Western governments for defending the jailing of both journalists.
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The position would cement her influence over the executive and legislative branches, which are already controlled by her allies, and would cap a remarkable rise for a woman who was a political prisoner for 15 years.
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In detention, Bakr found that it was difficult to undergo interrogation as a political prisoner when he had committed no act of protest, belonged to no political organization, and in fact held no strong political opinions.
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Government investigators concluded the blast was caused by Blankenship's company's failure to clean up coal dust sufficiently, while Blankenship, who called himself a "political prisoner," contends that he was targeted by the Obama administration and Manchin.
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Resources like the Lantos Human Rights Commission's Defending Freedoms Project or the Congressional-Executive Commission on China's Political Prisoner Database include the names of hundreds of individuals from across China who are worthy of congressional support.
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Cover image: Activist Le Dinh Luong listens to the court verdict in Nghe An province on August 16, 2018 after he was arrested in July last year when he was visiting a family of political prisoner.
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China's warning seems to have gone unheeded, with even the US President -- not known as a public champion of human rights activists -- expressing his sorrow over Liu's death and calling him a "political prisoner" in a statement.
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My grandfather, Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim, a doctor and at the time a political prisoner, had recently been transferred there from a Gestapo prison in Hamburg, where he was interrogated about what authorities suspected were subversive views.
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"If our American partners think they can comment on the detention of people who violated Russia's state border, they should start by commenting [on] the situation around the political prisoner held in their country," the embassy said.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate and former political prisoner, became the leader of Myanmar this year, part of a political sea-change that began in 2011 with the reopening of the country's Parliament.
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U Aung Than Wai, a politician from the ethnic Rakhine minority, which is embroiled in its own insurgency with the state of Myanmar, was in jail with the seven soldiers back when he was a political prisoner.
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China cremated its most prominent political prisoner and only Nobel Peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and dropped his ashes into the sea, ensuring that there would be no grave to serve as a magnet for pro-democracy protesters.
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On April 30th the interim president appeared on a motorway in Caracas at dawn flanked by a few dozen rebel national guardsmen and by Venezuela's best-known political prisoner, Leopoldo López, who had escaped house arrest that morning.
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Her admiration has since passed to Kenyatta's 55-year-old son, Uhuru, who is running for re-election against his veteran rival Raila Odinga, a 72-year-old former political prisoner and son of Kenya's first vice-president.
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Directed by Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando, the documentary explores Shakur's journey from activist with leftist political group Black Panthers to political prisoner, but also specifically zeroes in on how black women are negatively impacted by the justice system.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher With the prominent opposition leader Leopoldo López under house arrest, Venezuela thought its loudest political prisoner had been silenced.
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When a friend and I met up with the wife of a political prisoner, who has been in solitary confinement for months without trial, she put on a brave face and said her husband was reading a lot.
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Since Mr. López is Venezuela's most prominent political prisoner, the government may want to present his "release" as evidence that the country's situation is improving, that international criticism is unwarranted and that the demands of protesters are illegitimate.
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Suu Kyi was long feted in the West as a champion of human rights and democracy, and was a high-profile political prisoner during 15 years of house arrest for her opposition to Myanmar's then ruling military junta.
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That figure is "alarming, but it's nowhere close to a problematic area of a failed state or a failed economy," said the former political prisoner, who leads the People's Justice Party, the largest faction in the coalition government.
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Officials broadcast a taped phone call between Mr. Caro and Ms. Tintori — the wife of the political prisoner photographed with Mr. Trump in February — in which they said the two had planned chaotic protests to undermine the government.
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Maduro also noted that Trump's comments came in the wake of Venezuelan opposition leaders visiting the White House, likely a reference to Trump's February meeting with Lilian Tintori, wife of Leopoldo López, the country's most prominent political prisoner.
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What the book really needs is a Uighur illustrator who understands the culture, Abduweli said, but because of his status as a former political prisoner, all the really good artists are too afraid to be publicly associated with him.
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Highlighting Loujain's conditions as a political prisoner is vital; however, the media ought to also showcase her peaceful activism over the years -- activism that ignited one of the biggest social reforms ever seen in the ultra-conservative absolute monarchy.
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Shrouded in fears of violence, the vote pitted President Uhuru Kenyatta, a wealthy 220-year-old businessman and the son of Kenya's founding president, against Raila Odinga, 22, a former political prisoner and son of Kenya's first vice-president.
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With the 6900-year-old daughter of a fellow political prisoner, he made it across the border minefields to an Austrian refugee camp and thence to the United Kingdom, where they married and I would be born and raised.
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Sexwale, an apartheid-era political prisoner who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, recognized that possibility when he said in a radio interview last week that he would like to see FIFA's next president be "an African or an Asian".
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Ms. Sotoudeh is one of at least seven human rights lawyers arrested in Iran over the past year, in what amounts to a declaration by the Islamist state that representing a political prisoner is in itself a political crime.
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Someone who can document they were held as a political prisoner in Venezuela should be able to successfully obtain asylum, says Henríquez, who also works for a Venezuelan NGO that helps victims of arbitrary detention and human rights violations.
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He was arrested again in 2011, seven months after his latest release, because he had attended the funeral of a fellow political prisoner, another MEK activist who had died because authorities denied him access to life-saving medical treatment.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Leopoldo López, Venezuela's most prominent political prisoner, was released from a military prison on Saturday morning and transferred to house arrest in a surprise move that could invigorate the protest movement against President Nicolás Maduro's government.
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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Hama Amadou, a major opposition figure in Niger and a presidential candidate, has declared himself a political prisoner, his lawyer said on Wednesday, meaning he is now likely to spend time leading up to the February polls in jail.
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Suu Kyi met Obama at the White House on Wednesday on her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year's election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader.
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Rights groups were hopeful there would be further gains in press freedoms after Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi came to power last year amid a transition from full military rule that had propelled her from political prisoner to elected leader.
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Since taking power in April, former political prisoner Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has released scores of detainees and is making a big push to revise some of the most repressive measures from the long years of military rule.
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The artist, who performs under the name of Valtonyc, said he would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, saying he was being made "a political prisoner," a notion not easily dismissed in a country whose history includes fascist dictatorship.
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One of the walls on his street bore a poem written by former political prisoner and blogger Nay Phone Latt, now a member of Yangon's regional parliament, to commemorate the day the cleaned up alley was re-opened two years ago.
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BEIJING — China cremated its only Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, on Saturday, but watchful officials allowed only his widow and a few other mourners to bid farewell to the man who was also the country's most famous political prisoner.
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Liu Xiaobo, a political prisoner and Nobel laureate who is on medical parole in a Chinese hospital to receive treatment for late-stage liver cancer, was declared fit to travel abroad for medical care by American and German doctors on Sunday.
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Aung San Suu Kyi was, at that point, still in the process of transitioning from a Nobel Peace Prize–winning political prisoner of Myanmar's military government — she was kept under house arrest until 2010 — to the country's de facto leader.
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His predecessors were all personally burdened by its history: Konrad Adenauer was a political prisoner under Hitler; Ludwig Erhard risked persecution; Kurt Kiesinger was a Nazi Party member; Willy Brandt was in Swedish exile, and Helmut Schmidt fought on the eastern front.
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According to Lincoln Secco, a historian at the University of São Paulo who has studied the evolution of the Workers' Party, Mr. da Silva will ultimately select and support a replacement candidate, and can rally support by presenting himself as a political prisoner.
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Brunson, who had been living in Turkey for more than 20 years doing missionary work and ran a small church in the coastal city of Izmir, is largely thought to be a mere political prisoner and bargaining tool for the Turkish government.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, a political prisoner turned election-winner, is widely seen to have failed with her muted response to the current crisis, which erupted after an army response to a series of attacks on Myanmar police stations on 9 October.
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Even after the conviction of Mr. da Silva, a leftist lion who was president from 2003 to 2010, he remained beloved among a significant share of the population; "Free Lula" remains a rallying cry among supporters, who regard him as a political prisoner.
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"This is a happy moment in the long fight for justice that has been going on for decades," said Victor Basterra, 73, a former political prisoner held at the notorious naval base in Buenos Aires that was at the heart of the case.
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The director, Oleg Sentsov, is seen in much of the Western world as a political prisoner convicted on spurious charges of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism as a result of his outspoken criticism of the 2014 annexation of his native Crimea.
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After 27 years as a political prisoner, Mr. Mandela did not understand South Africa's political economy and agreed to a settlement that failed to secure black South Africans' economic independence, said Mamphela Ramphele, an anti-apartheid activist who became close to Mr. Mandela.
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BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the political prisoner and Nobel laureate who is on medical parole in a Chinese hospital to treat late-stage liver cancer, is fit to travel abroad to receive medical care, doctors from the United States and Germany said on Sunday.
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Being accused of scheming to whisk away a would-be political prisoner in the dead of night would dramatically raise the stakes, however, and could make it easier for Mueller to lean on Flynn in hopes he might flip on the president who hired him.
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Malaysia might have made a worthy winner, except that the new prime minister, the nonagenarian Mahathir Mohamad, seems reluctant either to relax the country's divisive racial preferences or to hand over power as agreed to his more liberal partner, Anwar Ibrahim, a former political prisoner.
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But in a televised news conference on Wednesday morning, Odinga, a 72-year-old former political prisoner, flatly rejected the preliminary results as "fictitious" and "fake" while arguing that the election authority's systems had been "hacked" to manipulate the results in his rival's favor.
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Two prominent ones among them, the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who now lives in New York, and the former oil tycoon and political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who now lives in London, have started organizations that set their sights on the political after.
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"The election of Moon Jae-in, a human rights activist and former political prisoner, as president has been a breath of fresh air after a bad decade in which South Korea fell more than 30 places in RSF's World Press Freedom Index," the group said.
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First, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who while a political prisoner once asked foreign tourists to boycott her country, is now the civilian leader of a government whose ruthless military campaign against the Rohingya has broad popular support from Myanmar's ethnic Bamar Buddhist majority.
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He was like a political prisoner, denied due process, cruelly kept from talking to his wife, at times confined to a spartan jail cell, later prohibited from accessing the internet anywhere but at his lawyers&apos office, his cellphones confiscated along with his passports.
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It was a telling sign of the waning momentum of China's human rights movement: the name of China's most famous political prisoner was not even officially brought up as Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel instead bonded over pandas and soccer.
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The other election candidates are Bahrain's Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, ex-FIFA executive committee member Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne and South African Tokyo Sexwale, a former political prisoner who was jailed along with Nelson Mandela.
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And no clue that inside was Leopoldo López, formerly Venezuela's best-known political prisoner, who has been a "guest" of Spain since he escaped from his captors in the early hours of April 30th, the day it briefly appeared the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro might fall.
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"Under the dictatorship that was going on, there was censorship and a propaganda machine, and I think the only intellectuals who could cross the boundary of censorship and propaganda were writers," the author Ma Thida, a former political prisoner and president of PEN Myanmar, told me.
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"It's crazy that Julian is still being held as a political prisoner — after the UN has stated (and recently for a second time) that there is no reason for his detention and has ordered that the UK and Sweden release him," she said in the statement.
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And their arrest, like the ethnic conflict they were covering, was a turning point in the West's perception of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former political prisoner who had once been seen as an international force for democracy and tolerance.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former political prisoner who spent 15 years under house arrest, took on the newly created post of state counselor this week in a move to get around a ban on her serving as the country's president.
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"Overthrowing Saddam's regime was a dream that came true thanks to the U.S. and Britain - and all those who say otherwise are liars," said former political prisoner Faris Mohammed, 46, who was serving a life sentence in the southern Shi'ite city of Basra when the invasion took place.
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"The political prisoner Vahid Sayyadi Nasiri, on hunger strike since October 13, 2018 to protest the denial of his right to counsel and inhumane prison conditions..., has died at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom," the U.S.-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said on its website.
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Suleyman Guengueng, a political prisoner during the Habré years who documented the abuses he saw while in detention, was in the courtroom on Monday to hear the verdict and said he hoped the trial would send a message to dictators around the world, as well as to their victims.
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But when Mx. Cession described Jesus as "a radical brown-skinned Palestinian man who was a political prisoner, who was about fighting the authorities," I heard an echo of the late 1960s: the black liberation theologians who fused a Marxist analysis of white imperialism with the prophetic tradition.
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It was also odd to learn that I was categorized by Facebook (for advertisers) as someone who was "interested in" topics like "choir" (I'm not a singer), "complex number" (what?), "life" (true, I guess) and "political prisoner" (I had no idea this could be an interest, per se
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To me, for example, it is obvious that my passage through different social, political, cultural and economic backgrounds — as an artist in China, as a political prisoner and now as an expatriate — has obliged me several times to alter and adjust my understandings of what a human being is.
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The publisher's focus at the NYABF will be If I Ruled the World, which asked Baltimore creatives and activists to present their most positive visions of the world (falling, we hope, somewhere between Nas's "If coke was cooked without the garbage" and "Political prisoner set free, stress free").
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Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former political prisoner who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar, has conceded "disproportionate force" may have been used, but has framed it as part of a campaign to root out insurgents or terrorists.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed a former political prisoner in July as head of the state-funded human rights commission, supporters hailed it as a sign the country might finally tackle abuses by security forces and move to break a cycle of bloody ethnic feuds.
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"Lula has become a political prisoner, victim of relentless persecution by adversaries who resorted to the judiciary to silence him, destroy him, in an effort to discredit his role before history and the Brazilian people," the former President Dilma Rousseff, Mr. da Silva's handpicked successor, said in a statement Monday.
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Several of the drawings, collages and canvases included in his exhibition, "Then and Now" at Nara Roesler, however, show a very different side of Mr. Sister: bright, graphic images he made in the late 1960s and early '70s while he was a political prisoner in São Paulo under Brazil's military dictatorship.
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After his sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in January, Mr. López Rivera was moved from a federal penitentiary in Indiana to house arrest in Puerto Rico, until his release on Wednesday to the cheers of supporters on the island, where many consider him to have been a political prisoner.
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The general perception is that the counterterrorism law — passed, ironically, during the administration of Ms. Rousseff, who was a political prisoner during the dictatorship for having been involved in a guerrilla group labeled terrorist — came about as a result of international pressure, and mainly because Brazil had been chosen to host the Olympics.
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Thinking of himself as a political prisoner provides Woodfox with the template both to assume responsibility for and to disavow the criminal he has been while allowing him to develop an analysis of the ways in which his race and class have consistently precluded the possibility of receiving just treatment for his acts.
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Set in the 1950s and based on two stories by the Hungarian writer Tibor Dery, "Love" is about a bedridden elderly woman whose daughter-in-law shields her from knowing that her son is a political prisoner by telling her outrageous lies about his successful life in the United States as a filmmaker.
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I thought we were the land of opportunity and a welcoming nation... It made me feel like all of the sacrifices that my grandfather went through, after spendings years as a political prisoner in Cuba, to come to this country and give his children a better life was undone in that stupid hate filled tweet.
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Mr. Assange and his team of lawyers say that criminal inquiry is a pretext for prosecution, and that Mr. Assange is essentially a political prisoner, targeted by the United States and its allies because of WikiLeaks' role in publishing more than 250,000 leaked State Department diplomatic cables — a deep embarrassment for the Obama administration — starting in 2010.
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Lorenzo FB continues to be the world's best cybersecurity reporter, getting scoop after scoop, put together the Guide to Not Getting Hacked, and published features about iPhone jailbreaking, Apple's bug bounty program, Equifax's horrible security, a political prisoner of a spyware deal gone wrong, and a "hacker" who was on the run from Mexico's most dangerous cartel.
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Only in the chapter where he offhandedly describes the all-encompassing Federer fanaticism of his friend Mike, who tries to time his child's conception to produce a delivery on Federer's birthday, and of Marcia, a former political prisoner in Brazil who now travels the world to follow Federer, do we find characters worthy of book-length attention.
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U Swe Win, a veteran journalist and former political prisoner who is himself facing defamation charges that could return him to jail, noted that the news media, which had been muzzled during military rule, enjoyed a renaissance during a period of transitional governance from 2011-15, when U Thein Sein, a former junta general, led the country.
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Written by a young Iranian political activist and former political prisoner, the piece decried the regime's efforts "to force Iranians to forget 1988," the "summer of blood," when approximately 30,000 political prisoners, primarily activists of the main Iranian opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were massacred in just a few months.
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"It is the right thing to do in order to ensure that the people of Burma see rewards from a new way of doing business and a new government," he said, sitting in the Oval Office beside Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner and Nobel laureate who is now Myanmar's de facto leader.
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The Chinese artist, activist, and former political prisoner Ai Weiwei , whose work is also on view at the Guggenheim, débuts the most expansive outdoor project of his career, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors," a meditation on boundaries that alludes to both the global refugee crisis and President Trump's plan to build a wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Each of the novel's chapters focusses on a person affected by his short life: the high-school student who grows up to be an editor tasked with censoring the facts of the massacre; the undergraduate turned political prisoner who ultimately commits suicide; the factory girl who becomes a labor activist; Dong-ho's mother, who remains haunted, every day, by her son's death.
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Seven artists from Myanmar are currently participating in Silent for a While, a group exhibition at 103 Chancery Lane Gallery in Soho, Hong Kong: the husband and wife team of Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu; Htein Lin, a former political prisoner; poet Maung Day; paper artist Zun Ei Phyu; sculptor Aung Myat Htay; and Moe Satt, a 210 Hugo Boss Asia Art award finalist and also the show's curator.
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The American defenders of Robinson have typically framed his case as a freedom of speech issue, and the activist as a political prisoner who faces the threat of violence from Muslim inmates — rather than as a clear-cut case of contempt of court as it is widely viewed in the U.K. One analysis by Hope not Hate found that more than a third of the #FreeTommy tweets came from the United States, along with about 10 percent of signatures on a Change.
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I can now only imagine how surreal it must have felt for Havel as he stood before the entire Congress, the president's cabinet, the diplomatic corps, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff assembled before him in the House chamber in our Capitol Building, with the vice president and the Speaker of the House behind him, all standing in a sustained ovation, a deep show of respect from the oldest democracy on earth to the newest, whose leader had been a political prisoner just a season earlier.
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