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Former Kennedy School of Government student and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli, imprisoned in China on espionage charges since April 2002, was found guilty and sentenced yesterday to five years in prison...
...arrest of a Palestinian activist and suspected terrorist in Harvard Square just a week before Commencement—along with concerns surrounding the “American Jihad” speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02, a World Bank protest at MIT planned for the day after and post-Sept. 11 concerns—led the University to use metal detectors and search bags that year...
...committee took a break from comedians in 2001, when it hosted Bono, the lead singer of U2 and an AIDS activist...
...longtime activist and academic, Ashrawi served as minister of higher education under the Palestinian Authority until 1998, when she resigned in protest of corruption. She then founded the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, in which she has since served as secretary-general...
...human rights--for example, the status of women in society. He believes the religion was meant not to be static but to be adapted to the times. "We cannot use a historical interpretation of religion in the modern world," he says. Although Kadivar does not consider himself a political activist, he admits that he is driven by a desire to undo religious despots who have hijacked the Islamic revolution. "What the people wanted was something different," he says. "Who were [the mullahs] to destroy it?" Iran's clerical court recently threatened to defrock Kadivar if he persists in voicing such...