Word: dissents
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...latest crackdown demonstrates that the split between Iranian clerical leadership is only deepening, and how, despite the government's tight controls over public demonstrations, it remains wary of further dissent. The government has canceled or downsized celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan lest they become a platform for opposition protests. On Sept. 6, reformist former President Mohammed Khatami decried these and other "fascist" methods being deployed by the government. Just how much longer the government will allow opposition leaders to make such comments remains to be seen...
...five years back, when the party lost the elections then by a thin margin. But those days seem long gone. The humbled BJP is now faced with serious questions over its leadership, seen to be out of sync with a fast-changing India as well as unable to control dissent within its ranks. Since the electoral defeat,there has been a string of high-profile resignations and infighting between party members has dominated headlines in recent weeks...
...official determination that the Constitution forbids the execution of an innocent prisoner, a seemingly obvious assumption that has never been formally declared? If so, what new filters of trial procedure and judicial review will have to be installed to reach that level of certainty and perfection? In his dissent, Scalia wrote, "This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent...
...wind at his back. At the entrance to al-Mahalla al-Kubra, one of Egypt's largest industrial towns, the tall, bearded "independent" Member of Parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood - whose members are regularly arrested and tortured by the state - hops into a car, buoyed by signs of local dissent. "There are two strikes in Mahalla today," he says, cheerfully. "We will show...
...city of Mahalla demanding that Mubarak will be overthrown, and then people say that these workers are not political?" Even so, says Beinin, most of Egypt's strike leaders don't belong to political parties, and doubts that Egypt's opposition groups will be able to channel workers' dissent into a unified push for political change...