Jail Protests by Militants Win Privileges
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Through hunger strikes and protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks â including use of the conjugal rooms â that make them the envy of the other inmates.
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Scores of protesters have been injured or arrested by police during street demonstrations in Indian-administered Kashmir over the alleged rape of a woman and her minor daughter.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- A court sentenced 35 opposition politicians and activists to life in prison yesterday and denied them the right to vote or run for public office after they were charged with inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government.
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Nadia Chaudhry's hands trembled in the cold night air as she held a candle at a protest against Pakistan's emergency rule, the government's firing of judges and jailing of civil rights activists.
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Burma has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 jail inmates following a shake-up in the military-run regime. A prison source says that all 9,248 prisoners promised freedom have been released, although
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BANGKOK - The authorities in Burma, apparently bowing to bad publicity, released a political prisoner yesterday whose leg was broken when he was arrested in the recent outbreak of antigovernment protests. His case had gained international attention when fellow prisoners staged a hunger strike calling for his freedom.
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More than 6,000 inmates at 24 prisons around Romania took part in hunger strikes and other protests Sunday to demand amnesty and better living conditions.
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The Pentagon begins to formally notify some held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that they have the right to challenge their imprisonment in an American court.
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RAIPUR, India  - Embarrassed authorities in central India have stepped up prison security and suspended five officials after jailed Maoist rebels overpowered guards and freed 299 inmates, authorities said on Monday.
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Rebellion over 42-day detention as threat of legal challenge looms
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Hundreds of South African prisoners, who have been in jail since the apartheid era, are hoping to reclaim their freedom by convincing the government that their crimes were politically motivated.
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More than 1,100 Muslims detained after a riot were freed Saturday, as the government tried to ease anger in Thailand&#39;s restive south over the deaths of dozens of accused
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Police on Wednesday freed seven young people who were detained the day before during protests against a much-criticized referendum that cleared the way for Belarus&#39; authoritarian
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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More than 6,000 inmates at 24 prisons around Romania took part in hunger strikes and other protests Sunday to demand amnesty and better living conditions.Comment
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Police released three rights activists whose detention earlier Friday sparked protests and clashes with police, a defense lawyer said.
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Human rights activists protested outside a top-security jail in London where some foreign nationals have been detained without trial for almost three years under controversial anti-terrorism laws.