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...With the release of the men who allegedly abused her, Mai's troubles may be beginning all over again. Says Rehman the human-rights activist: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Several human-rights activists are demanding that the Pakistani government provide Mai and her family with police protection; without it, they say, she may have to flee the village to avoid harm. Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned...
...condemned the ruling: I.A. Rehman, director of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says the trial "brought disgrace to Pakistan's justice system." With the release of the men who allegedly abused her, Mai's troubles may be beginning all over again. Says human-rights activist Rehman: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned. - By Tim McGirk Lessons in Law BRITAIN A 16-year-old Muslim schoolgirl...
Adjah wrote in an e-mail that this section referenced both the remarks of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, which linked grade inflation at Harvard in part to an increase in minority recruiting, and to reparation payments made to freed African-Americans after the Civil War, and was implicitly racist...
...years a political prisoner on South Africa's infamous Robben Island; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Along with Nelson Mandela, Mhlaba was one of four members of the prison's "High Organ," which negotiated with the apartheid government for better conditions and the release of political prisoners. Freed in 1989, he went on to serve as a regional official and as High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda. Upon Mhlaba's death, Mandela called him "one of the real stalwarts of our movement, a person who in his life and work embodied the highest values our struggle stood for and strove...
...Analysts also note that the coming weeks and months will be critical in determining the significance of the change. It remains to be seen whether the opposition political parties and civil society movements will be freed of all existing restraints in challenging for the presidency, particularly in terms of the right to hold rallies and other forms of public campaign activity, as well as access to the media. A major question-mark hangs over the status and intentions of the outlawed but popular Muslim Brotherhood group. Although banned as a political party, its members have run as independents despite many...