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"The prescience of protest" by Natan Sharansky
The West should listen to the dissidents in Iran craving freedom -- they can feel the future.
"Soviet refusenik documents available online" JTA
A new Internet device allows scholars and the public to search an index of the comprehensive archive of the American Soviet Jewry movement.
"Egypt frees dissident from prison after 3 years" The Associated Press
Ayman Nour, one of Egypt's most prominent dissidents who was jailed after challenging the country's longtime president in the 2005 elections, was unexpectedly freed Wednesday after years of pressure from the United States.
"Whatever happened to glasnost?" BBC News
"The new Russian journalism first lost its modesty, then its innocence." The words of Alexei Simonov, a Russian media freedom campaigner, sound like an epitaph for "glasnost", the spirit of openness encouraged by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s, which accelerated the collapse of communism.
Syria convicts 12 pro-democracy activists « My blog news
A Syrian criminal court on Wednesday convicted 12 dissidents of fomenting sectarian strife and sentenced them to two-and-a-half years in prison,
local human rights group said. Ammar Qurabi of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said the defendants are all members of a pro-democracy group known as the Damascus Declaration who were
arrested last December.
"Beijing strikes at Charter 08 dissidents" The Observer
China has launched a tough countrywide crackdown on a new network of political activists, writers and lawyers who have supported a bold new manifesto that presses for the end of one-party rule. The group of 300 or so people had all signed Charter 08, which called for democracy and the rule of law in China and was named after the famous Charter 77 dissident group formed in cold war Czechoslovakia.
"Aid the Iranian Dissidents" Discovery Blog
The U.S. must aid Iranian dissidents just as it did in the former Soviet Union.
"China's Human-Rights Activists Need Support," Wall Street Journal
Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic, calls to support jailed Chinese dissidents' cries for freedom of speech and human rights.
Remembrance in Spacetime: § Presidents Lincoln (16), Bush (43), and Obama (44)
“That Barack Obama is the antithesis of George W. Bush is by now axiomatic. The President-elect is expected to change everything, from the prevailing ideology to the government's order of priorities to the partisan atmosphere in Washington to even the mood in America. Amid all these differences, however, there could be an important point of convergence between Bush and Obama: supporting democracy by personally meeting with and acting on behalf of democratic dissidents.
Democrats in China - WSJ.com
This week more than 400 Chinese citizens living in China published "Charter 08" on the Internet. The document calls for a new constitution that would establish multiparty democracy and issued a scathing account of Communist Party rule. It describes in detail its goal of a political system where the military, courts, schools and churches are all accountable to the constitution rather than to a single political party.
Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
The Jewish "refusenik" Natan Sharansky became a symbol of Soviet human rights violation, and president Ronald Reagan's personal support for the dissidents - often over objections of his diplomats - introduced hairline fractures into Soviet Power.
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The Jewish "refusenik" Natan Sharansky became a symbol of Soviet human rights
violation, and president Ronald Reagan's personal support for the dissidents -
often over objections of his diplomats - introduced hairline fractures into
Soviet Power.
Chinese dissidents emulate anti-Soviet heroes with Charter 08 - Telegraph
Chinese intellectuals have challenged the country's Communist leaders to end one-party rule with the launch of Charter 08, a throw-back to the Charter 77 declaration of Soviet-era Czechoslovakian dissidents.
Desson’s Blog » Blog Archive » Refusenik
It is fascinating to learn about dissidents such as Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, Vladimir and Maria Slepak, Ephraim Kholmyansky, who weathered extensive harassment, abuse and heartbreak for having the temerity to request emigration visas to the state of Israel.
U.N. chief: 'Growing frustration' with Myanmar - CNN.com
Myanmar's military, which has ruled since 1962, tolerates no dissent and crushed pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks in September 2007. It holds more than 2,100 political prisoners, human rights groups say.
The Defenestrators: The European War on Free Speech
Americans of a certain generation remember Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky, and Vladimir Bukovsky—Soviet-era dissidents who faced criminal charges simply for speaking out against a tyrannical system. Today in Europe, there still are dissidents who are persecuted and even jailed for speaking out.
AFP: Bush to meet with dissidents on UN margins
US President George W. Bush will meet with critics of the governments of Russia, China, Venezuela, North Korea, Myanmar and other countries in New York on Tuesday, the White House has said.
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