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...meantime, Edwards may become a cosmopolitan human rights activist. He told the Brown Daily Herald in an interview that he has already been to Haiti...
Other opposition figures did not have time to avoid arrest or harassment. Just before dawn, two burly policemen hurled bricks at the home of Tahira Abdullah, 50, a women's rights activist. "They damaged my kitchen door - they were breaking in and entering," she said moments after her release from an Islamabad women's police station. "It is a sad day for Pakistan when the people we marched with for democracy against the dictatorships of General [Mohammed] Zia ul-Haq and General Musharraf arrest human-rights activists...
With access denied, pro-Tibet activists have been left with a trickle of information - mostly nebulous or incomplete. "We're hoping, rather ominously, for some news," says Tenzin Tsundue, a prominent writer and Tibet independence activist in Dharamsala, site of the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile. The last piece of news came on February 25, with a phone call from the Aba region, a largely ethnic Tibetan community in China's Sichuan province, that indicated that a monk had set himself on fire.(See pictures of the Dalai Lama's spiritual journey...
...organizers of the protest—including Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky '07, Kelly L. Lee '07, J. Claire Provost '07, and former campus activist Kyle Krahel '08—said in the e-mail that they would continue to rally alongside the Cambridge protesters seeking to put an end to layoffs at what they called "the wealthiest university in the world...
Hinda the activist-investigator also knows what it's like to be betrayed by family and considered human merchandise. Raped at 16, she was disowned by her family and left homeless. In many parts of the Arab world, the stigma of compromised chastity, even if it was stolen, is such that victims are at best outcasts and at worst killed for "dishonoring" their family or community. Desperate and destitute, Hinda turned to prostitution...