By: ABC News Online, November 4, 2005
The crisis in the Zimbabwe Opposition has worsened with its leader Morgan Tsvangirai publicly accused by his own party of violence and intimidation. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is accusing Mr Tsvangirai of conscripting youths to commit violence, attempting to bribe party members and ignoring his party's own constitution.
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By: Voice of America, November 3, 2005
The main opposition party in Zanzibar says it will not accept the official results of this week's election and will not cooperate with the government.
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By: Voice of America, November 3, 2005
U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell had some more blunt comments for the Harare government on Wednesday when the envoy told an audience in the eastern city of Mutare that "gross mismanagement of the economy and…corrupt rule" brought on the prolonged economic crisis which has intensified over the past year.
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By: The Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 2005
BUENOS AIRES - In the birthplace of Ernesto "Che" Guevara - one of the 20th century's great icons of liberation - and in a nation where most adults remember life under a brutal military dictatorship, you might think there would be greater appreciation for a world leader who champions freedom through prosperity and democracy. But no.
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The psychiatric report on Wang Wanxing said he was obedient and stable, except for one thing: a condition that the Chinese doctors called "litigation mania." It was an odd diagnosis, not used anywhere except China. It meant that Mr. Wang was considered crazy because he was persistently petitioning for justice.
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By: Pakistan Daily Times, November 3, 2005
Experts say if Uighurs were allowed to control and enjoy their own culture there would be far less little support for secession and Beijing's heavy hand might not be necessary.
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By: Zin Linn, Asian Tribune, November 3, 2005
Military junta's censorship and self-censorship are commonplace in Burma and these have severely restricted political rights and civil liberties. For the people, free speech and free press are something to be read in the books smuggled into the country or free speech and not something that could be experienced like their forefathers.
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By: EU Observer, November 4, 2005
EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (7 November) are set to fire a shot across the bows to Belarus on human rights ahead of the July 2006 presidential vote.
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By: For-Um Online, November 3, 2005
Despite the demands of taxi-driver, President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has not yet responded to them.
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By: Russian News and Information Agency, November 3, 2005
MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - The penitentiary department of the Smolensk Region in Northwest Russia said Thursday that 26 inmates at a local penal colony had gone on a hunger strike. Some of the inmates deliberately slit their wrists, department head Igor Konovalov said. "The inmates wanted to [cause] disorder [in] the penitentiary and make the administration weaken the regime," he said.
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By: US State Department Info, November 2, 2005
The United States on November 2 condemned the recent arrest, detention and conviction of Belarusian citizens from the nongovernmental organization (NGO) known as Partnership, which seeks to train Belarusians as election observers and to educate them on their rights under Belarusian law as voters.
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By:JASPER MORTIMER, November 4, 2005
CAIRO, Egypt -- Libya has sent to prison for 18 months a blogger who criticized the government on the Internet, Human Rights Watch says in a report that inspired a series of Web tributes to the dissident Friday.
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By: Reuters, November 3, 2005
Uzbekistan has again came under international criticism over the arrest of an opposition leader who was found naked and delirious in a prison cell by his lawyer, following the release of another prominent rights activist and opposition member from a psychiatric hospital.
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By: The Moscow News, November 3, 2005
The situation in Azerbaijan is increasingly reminiscent of a cliff-hanging thriller. Its last pages are to be written on the night of November 6. According to the tradition that has evolved in the post-Soviet states, presidential or parliamentary elections are an excellent opportunity for regime change. This tradition has been followed by Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. Azerbaijan seems poised to be next, as the local opposition is dreaming about a "velvet" revolution. According to the leaders of major opposition parties, which formed the Azadlyg (Freedom) electoral bloc, the people are tired of corruption and poverty and want to see the progressive part of society - i.e., democrats and opposition intellectuals - come to power.
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