Cuba Hospitalizes Dissident After Wife's Protest
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Cuban authorities transferred a jailed  dissident suffering from a herniated disc to a military  hospital on Thursday after his wife staged an unprecedented  protest in Havana's Revolution Square.
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A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday Â the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.
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HAVANA -- At least three dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown by the Cuban government last year were released Monday, according to friends, relatives and human rights activists.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Former Argentine   President Carlos Menem was hospitalized late on Tuesday after   appearing dizzy and clutching his chest during a political   rally.
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At least three political dissidents have been released in Cuba after being jailed in a crackdown last year.
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HAVANA Â· Cuba&#39;s most prominent political prisoner, poet and journalist, Raul Rivero, woke from a fitful sleep before dawn on Tuesday expecting to be transferred from a Havana military hospital back to his jail cell 260 miles away.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, is in hospital, the government and sources close to the family said Tuesday.
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Cuba&#39;s communist government freed dissident writer Raul Rivero from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island&#39;s human rights record.
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Cuba has freed one of the country&#39;s best-known dissidents, the acclaimed poet and journalist Raul Rivero. The 59-year-old was among 75 people arrested in a huge government crackdown last year and given long prison terms.
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As doctors fought to save his life 18 months ago, Cuban leader Fidel Castro's main concern was to dictate final changes to his memoirs.
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Cuba's communist government freed two  more dissidents on Tuesday including its most prominent jailed  critic, poet and journalist Raul Rivero, after 20 months behind  bars.
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A prominent Cuban doctor who was denied permission to travel to Buenos Aires to visit relatives was staying at the Argentine Embassy on Thursday, but her son said she does not plan to seek asylum in a case that has raised tensions between the two nations.
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A prominent Cuban doctor who was denied permission to travel to Buenos Aires to visit relatives was staying at the Argentine Embassy on Thursday, but her son said she does plan to seek asylum in a case that has raised tensions between the two nations.
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Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the best known of a dozen political prisoners released over the past few days in a move widely seen as intended to court favor with the European Union.
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The wife of a Boston-based democracy activist jailed in China said on Thursday she plans to seek medical parole for her husband after seeing him for the first time since he was detained in 2002.
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A Belarusian opposition leader imprisoned since last spring's protests has entered the 50th day of a hunger strike and is in critical condition, his wife said Friday.
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Former Argentine great Diego Maradona has returned to Cuba to continue his treatment for his drug addiction. Maradona&#39;s confinement to a psychiactric hospital in Argentina after a relapse sparked bitter court battles with his family.