EU award for freed Kurd activist
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A leading Kurdish activist, Leyla Zana, receives the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights.
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A Finn who helped mediate peace in Indonesia is tipped to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, while bookmakers favor a Turkish novelist for the literature award.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 23 (IPS) - Turkey took a step closer to the European Union  Thursday after EU enlargement commissioner Guenter Verheugen said  he was âsatisfiedâ that a row over Turkey's penal code had  been resolved.
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"The Lives of Others" , a drama about how East Germany's Stasi security police shattered the lives of ordinary people, won top prize at the European Film Awards on Saturday held in Poland's capital.Comment
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WASHINGTON -- Yaser Esam Hamdi, the US citizen and ''enemy combatant&quot; whose imprisonment without charges by the Bush administration for nearly three years led to a historic Supreme Court decision this summer, will be freed under an agreement with the Justice Department.
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A Syrian court has released on bail a human rights activist charged with tarnishing the country's image but considered by advocacy groups to be a prisoner of conscience, one of his attorneys said Monday.
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Speaking at a ceremony in Berlin where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was presented with the Quadriga Bridges of Respect award given by the privately funded Werkstatt Deutschland organisation in recognition of the reforms enacted by his
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A political prisoner who was jailed for 15 years on charges of terrorism in Moldova's separatist state of Trans-Dniester was released Saturday after serving his term.
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BRUSSELS - The EUâs historic deal with Turkey to open entry talks with the vast Muslim country was hailed by supporters as a bridge builder between Europe and the Islamic world.
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Iran has released from jail peace activist Ali Shakeri, the last of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned in recent months after being accused of stirring up a revolution, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD - A 54-year-old Polish-born woman who was taken hostage in Iraq last month has been freed, according to Poland&#39;s prime minister.
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Turkey has been praised for its ongoing reforms but must improve Kurdish minority rights before it can join the EU, an official said.
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Turkey cleared a hurdle on its long path toward European Union membership on Sunday when its parliament approved a new penal code which will boost women&#39;s rights and punish police more severely for torture.
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Online donations do the trick for Nazanin Fatehi Well done to all those Reg readers who donated cash to the campaign to release Iranian teenager Nazanin Fatehi, who secured her freedom on Wednesday.â¦
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AFTER A 10-YEAR campaign for her release, Kurdish politician Leyla Zana finally walked free from an Ankara courtroom in early June.
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ANKARA: Turkey&#39;s bid for membership of the European Union is back on track after the parliament passed far-reaching penal code reforms designed to improve the Muslim nation&#39;s human rights record.
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.