Vietnam releases 'cyber' dissident
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Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
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Vietnam frees dissident Pham Hong Son, jailed four years ago for posting a US article on democracy.
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Palestinian militants yesterday released an Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN a day after abducting him at gunpoint in the
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Cuba's communist government freed writer Raul Rivero and another dissident from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island's human rights record.
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HAVANA -- The Cuban government freed another jailed opponent yesterday, the sixth dissident released this week in a move widely seen as an attempt to repair relations with the European Union.
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Weapons-grade uranium was removed from Vietnam's sole nuclear reactor at the weekend under anti-terrorism agreements with the United States and Russia, a Vietnamese government agency said.
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Yangon: Myanmar&#39;s junta has freed the nation&#39;s number two political prisoner as part of a release of 4,000 inmates, as analysts questioned the gesture&#39;s potential impact on democratic reform in the military-ruled state.
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Hanoi trots out Cold War-style denunciations to convince citizens that  one-party rule is the only way forward
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was being   detained on suspicion of plotting to destroy the U.S. Consulate   General and to overthrow the Vietnam government, state-run   media reported on Wednesday.
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China plans to release a prominent imprisoned dissident this week, cutting short his sentence in an apparent "conciliatory gesture" by the government of President Hu Jintao, a human rights group said Tuesday.
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At least two Burmese dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the military government in a third mass release in less than a month.
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Cuba&#39;s most famous political prisoner, the dissident poet RaÃºl Rivero, was yesterday released by Fidel Castro&#39;s regime after serving 18 months of a 20-year sentence.
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An American was released from an Afghan prison and flown out of the country Saturday after serving more than two years for running a private prison as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists, officials said.
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A British national held in detention in Pakistan without charge for more than a year is released, Human Rights Watch says.
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Cuba frees Hector Palacios, a dissident charged with conspiracy during a wave of arrests in 2003.
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Authorities on Saturday released a lawyer who was on a U.S. list of activists detained this year by Vietnam, two days before President Nguyen Minh Triet goes to the United States on a state visit.
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Vietnamese dissidents say a Catholic priest prominent in the democracy movement has been arrested.