Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation
Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his ...
Iran president campaign ending before Friday vote
Candidates for president of Iran wrapped up their final full day of campaigning on Wednesday, reacting to a last-minute surge for a moderate cleric ...
Thousands of anti-Putin protesters march in Moscow
Thousands of Russian opposition activists marched through Moscow on Wednesday, decrying President Vladimir Putin's authoritarian rule and calling for ...
Crackdown filling NKorean prisons with defectors
North Korea's prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, ...
Ethiopia: Thousands protest political repression
Thousands of Ethiopian demonstrators took to the streets of the capital Sunday demanding the immediate release of jailed journalists and activists in ...
Correction: Argentina-Obit-Videla story
In a May 17 story about the death of jailed former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, The Associated Press, relying on an initial prison service ...
Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation ...
Obama vows US support as Myanmar leader visits
President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to ...
Myanmar pardons 93, including political prisoners
Myanmar's president pardoned 93 prisoners, including at least 59 political detainees, a day after the European Union lifted sanctions against the ...
Cuban dissidents pick up EU prize, 8 years later
Eight years after winning Europe's top human rights prize, members of a Cuban opposition group on Tuesday finally picked it up after securing ...
Myanmar communal unrest threatens reforms
Few imagined Myanmar would embrace democracy when the U.S. began its historic engagement with the military regime. The country's rapid changes were ...
Syrian forces pound rebel-held areas of Damascus
Syrian warplanes and artillery pounded opposition strongholds in Damascus and its suburbs Tuesday, as rebels in the northern city of Aleppo launched ...
Sudan releases 7 prisoners as part of amnesty
Sudanese officials say the government has released seven political prisoners, including a female politician, under an amnesty declared by President ...
Piece of Berlin Wall used in Albanian memorial
A memorial containing a 2.6-ton piece of the Berlin Wall was unveiled in Albania on Tuesday to honor former political prisoners who suffered under the ...
About 10 detained at protest march in Belarus
Rights activists in Belarus say about 10 opposition supporters and independent journalists were detained during a protest march in the capital.
Myanmar holds off on press law following criticism
Myanmar journalists just getting used to their new era of freedom howled when the government announced plans for a media law that could lock many old ...
Bahrain overturns acquittal of opposition figure
A senior Bahrain prosecutor says an appeals court has overturned the acquittal and sentenced the daughter of a jailed opposition leader to three ...
Islamic summit backs Syria dialogue
Leaders at an Islamic summit on Thursday urged a dialogue between the Syrian opposition and regime just as a new initiative for talks proposed by an ...
Russian wardens throw party for Stalin's gulag
Millions of people died in Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's gulag, but the 75th anniversary of the founding of one of the notorious forced-labor camps ...
Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers
Poet Saw Wai parked himself on the lawn, unfurled a map of Myanmar with a blob of blood-red paint dripping down from a spot up north and invited ...
Cuba dissidents approved, denied for passports
Two Cuban dissidents who applied for passports to go overseas under recently enacted travel reform reported mixed results Wednesday, as one former ...
Philippine dictatorship victims to be compensated
Almost four decades after he was arrested and tortured and his sister disappeared into a maze of Philippine police cells and military houses, ...
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