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...Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent her birthday on Sunday under house arrest in Rangoon. Over the past 16 years she has been detained for a total of nine years and eight months 1,350 Number of political prisoners in Burma, according to Amnesty International...
...DIED. RUI XINGWEN, 78, former aide to ousted Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who died under house arrest earlier this year; in Beijing. As a senior propaganda official under Zhao in the late 1980s, Rui helped usher in a brief period of loosened media controls and a freer environment for ideas that gave rise to 1989's democracy demonstrations. When Zhao was purged in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Rui was demoted and never regained his earlier stature. His death has not been reported by mainland Chinese media...
...arrest of Palestinian activist and suspected terrorist Jaoudat Abouazza in Harvard Square triggered a “lock-down” on Commencement Day 2002. Police had considered heightening security in anticipation of the “American Jihad” speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02 and a World Bank protest in Cambridge scheduled for the next day. But it was the arrest of Abouazza that led to the metal detectors, bomb technicians, and National Guard presence at Commencement...
Geremias Cruz Ramos, a Harvard custodial worker arrested in January 2004, admitted to groping about 100 women over several months—many of the gropings remained unreported. But even after Ramos’ arrest, the assaults—particularly by bicycle-riding assailants—continued...
Protest leader and PETA Vice President Dan Mathews was fined $300 for disturbing the peace. Mathews was scheduled to speak that day in the popular class Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” but could not guest lecture due to his arrest...