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RELEASED. WAN YANHAI, 38, AIDS activist; by the Chinese government. One of the few voices publicizing China's aidsepidemic, Dr. Wan was imprisoned for posting on the Internet a classified government report about a rural AIDS outbreak...
...principal deputy to the guerrillas' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov. Other money, Mazayev says, came from charities in Turkey, which has been sympathetic to the Chechen cause. If all goes well the film will premiere in Tbilisi in the fall. Vanessa Redgrave, the Oscar-winning actress and political activist, has said that she will try to attend. After that, Mazayev says hopefully, will come one of the big film festivals, perhaps in France or Berlin - places far removed, in every conceivable way, from the harsh, violent place that gave birth to this film...
Last night’s petition, dubbed the “Carlson Petition” after Riverside activist Cob Carlson, is an attempt to circumvent the city planning board’s moderating influence on the neighborhood’s zoning recommendation...
...steamy jungle terrain. In Indonesia the fall of the dictator Suharto in 1998 left the world's most populous Islamic country in a state of turmoil and turned it into a fertile breeding ground for potential al-Qaeda terrorists. Al-Faruq married Mira, the daughter of a former Islamic activist, and linked up with an Indonesian businessman named Agus Dwikarna, who was active in the Indonesian Mujahedin Council (MMI). A purportedly nonviolent political organization, the MMI was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir--the Indonesian cleric also believed to be the spiritual leader of JI, which is run by Ba'asyir...
While members say that the IOP’s reluctance to take sides on issues can be frustrating, Kastner says the campus has room for both the IOP’s intellectual side and the Democrats and Republicans’ activist sides...