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...seat nearby, and Munir drifted off to sleep. Hakim subsequently returned to business class, slept, and ate breakfast. A few hours before the plane was scheduled to land in Amsterdam, the purser asked Hakim to check on Munir, who didn't appear to be breathing. The human-rights activist was dead...
...Munir had been an activist since his law school days, concentrating on labor rights, a sensitive field during the rule of President Suharto. After Suharto's ouster in 1998, two NGOs?an Islamic student organization and the Association of Independent Journalists?set up Kontras, which stands for the Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence, and which examines alleged human-rights abuses during the Suharto era. Three years later, he co-founded Imparsial, a human-rights monitoring group. His highest profile campaign of late was lobbying against a bill for an expanded intelligence agency. Munir's fellow activists wonder...
...gave its presidential nomination to Mahmoud Abbas, favored by Israel and the West to succeed Arafat. But the signs of progress are still fragile. Palestinian officials are concerned about supporters of imprisoned Palestinian activist Marwan Barghouti, who lost his bid to be Fatah's presidential nominee. Senior Fatah officials told TIME that as many as 40% of the party's members may now boycott the election. The absence of a credible alternative to Abbas could also embolden the militant group Hamas to attempt to derail his election by attacking Israel. "There is a real sense that this is a moment...
...PHYSICAL EXAMINATION STANDARDS, to allow HIV-positive citizens to qualify for government jobs; in a draft posted on Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Health websites last week; in Beijing. Earlier versions barred those with HIV or AIDS from public service, and were denounced as unconstitutional by Chinese AIDS activists and human-rights attorneys. The new guidelines still don't cover those with full-blown AIDS, but Shanghai-based lawyer-activist Zhou Dan says the reform will help "ensure that the government isn't in the position of legalizing discrimination...
...wins a seat on the council when he or she receives “quota,” defined as one-tenth of the votes cast plus one extra vote. The system is problematic because it allowed the defeat this spring of MIT alum and students’ rights activist Matt S. DeBergalis—despite the fact that he received more first-place votes than two of the re-elected incumbents...