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...face stiff penalties for exercising their right to free speech. Since April 2000, nearly 100 newspapers have been shut down because bold journalists dared to challenge the regime. One of the most prominent among them, Akbar Ganji, is currently serving his sixth year in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. He was thrown in jail for publishing articles implicating the regime in a series of murders, but his resolute defiance has made him the most famous political prisoner in the country. Last May, Ganji went on a hunger strike to protest his incarceration. In deteriorating health, he released...
...hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. So instead of waiting for agents to knock on her door, she told her husband and two children that she was going away to visit a friend. To avoid a traumatic scene, Ebadi slipped off to an Islamic court and turned herself in to a magistrate. She was taken...
Doctors around the world certainly did. Thousands of physicians had convened that month at a medical congress in Rio de Janeiro, and most of them signed a petition demanding that the French government reverse Roussel's decision. Within 48 hours, Health Minister Claude Evin declared that once government approval had been granted, "RU 486 became the moral property of women," and he ordered Roussel to resume distribution. In 1989 RU 486 was made available to all licensed abortion clinics and hospitals in France. The results proved encouraging, save for a freak incident in 1991 when a woman...
...blow to women's rights. More than 1,000 physicians attending a meeting in Rio de Janeiro signed petitions urging that the company, Roussel Uclaf, reinstate the pill. The outcry apparently worked. By week's end, under an unprecedented order from French Minister of Health Claude Evin, the drug company, which is partly owned by the government, abruptly reversed its decision...
...Quincy House Leslie Levin '90 said a clandestine Claus led her roommate on elaborate scavenger hunts. One of these chases took her roommate to Lamont Library, where she followed instructions to read an obscure newspaper, and at once received flowers from a fellow student. On another hunt I evin's roommate found her gift behind a book in the depths of Quincy House Library...