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Le Chi Quang
18. October, 2008By Julia Scheeres |  04:00 PM Apr. 18, 2002 PT A free speech advocacy group is calling for the release of three Vietnamese dissidents who were recently arrested after they criticized the communist regime on the Internet. “These are just more examples of how the Vietnamese authorities are censuring freedom of expression,” said Vincent Brossell,
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Son Hong Pham
18. October, 2008By Julia Scheeres |  04:00 PM Apr. 18, 2002 PT A free speech advocacy group is calling for the release of three Vietnamese dissidents who were recently arrested after they criticized the communist regime on the Internet. “These are just more examples of how the Vietnamese authorities are censuring freedom of expression,” said Vincent Brossell,
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Zouhair Yahyaoui
18. October, 2008PARIS –- Tunisia’s recent crackdown on cyber-dissidents has taken an ominous turn with the arrest and detention of journalist Zouhair Yahyaoui, founder and editor of the online news site TUNeZINE. Better known under the pseudonym Ettounsi (“The Tunisian”), Yahyaoui was charged Thursday under clause 2 of Article 306b of the Tunisian criminal code for “knowingly
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Yan Jun
18. October, 2008Beijing – Internet dissident Yan Jun, 32, has been sentenced to two years in prison on a subversion charge for posting essays online calling for change, including a free press and free expression, his family said on Monday. The Xian Intermediate People’s Court sentenced him on Monday morning on a charge of “inciting subversion,” his
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Zhang Shengqi
18. October, 2008Beijing – A Paris-based rights group called on China on Wednesday to release a 23-year old religious dissident arrested for using the internet to support unauthorised Christian activities. Reporters Without Borders called on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to order the release of Zhang Shengqi, who was arrested on November 26 for publishing internet articles supporting
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Yuan Hongbing
18. October, 2008Chinese Dissident Defects to Australia A Chinese dissident and former head of the Beijing University criminal law department, who was previously jailed for promoting democracy, has fled to Australia and is seeking asylum. Professor Yuan Hongbing, a law professor formerly at Beijing University and labour organizer, who was involved with a ‘Peace Charter’ reportedly modelled
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Geoffrey Sampson
18. October, 2008How the British Government classed me as a dissident A councillor unseated In May 2002 my life was turned upside down. I had been living quietly as a computer science professor in a provincial British university. For decades I had had a strong side interest in politics and current affairs. In the years when socialism
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Zhang Lin
18. October, 2008CONTROVERSIAL CHINESE WRITER Zhang Lin has been thrown in jail for five years over essays he posted on the internet, cited as a supposed threat to Chinese national security. Lin’s wife Fang Caofang reckons authorities are taking revenge for her husband’s controversial essays, which looked at such issues as protests by unemployed workers and jailed
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Wang Dan
18. October, 2008Chinese dissident hopes to appeal 11-year sentence Wang Dan convicted after short trial October 30, 1996 Web posted at: 10:45 a.m. EST (1545 GMT) In this story: Entire trial took four hours Active in 1989 pro-democracy movement Almost no dissidents left Related stories and sites From Beijing Bureau Chief Andrea Koppel BEIJING (CNN) — Prominent
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Mordechai Vanunu
18. October, 2008Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician, completed his entire 18-year sentence in Israel’s Ashkelon Prison on April 21, 2004, for blowing the whistle on his government’s secret nuclear weapons program. Captured by Israeli agents on September 30, 1986, he spent more than 11 1/2 years in solitary confinement. One of 11 children of Moroccan
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