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...down on activists just as aggressively during the first few weeks of 2010 as it did last year. In the past week, a court in Sichuan sentenced an activist investigating the deaths of children in schools that collapsed in the 2008 earthquake, a court in Beijing confirmed a lengthy jail term for the author of a 2008 pro-democracy manifesto, and the family of a trailblazing defense lawyer marked the one-year anniversary of his disappearance, which was presumably at the hands of state security officers. "This series of repression against dissent and activism ... I don't know...
...presidency, Anoma made few appearances on the stump, but since his arrest, she has come to foreground. A day after his arrest, she tearfully met with the media. "Why is he treated like this?" she asked tearfully. "He is a war hero, and now he is in jail." Fonseka's 40-year career culminated in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May 2009, which brought to an end the bloody separatist war of more than 2½ decades...
...timed to prevent them from organizing other supporters. At least 1,000 people have been arrested in the past two months, according to human-rights groups, under new laws that allow blanket detentions. Iran now has more journalists imprisoned than anywhere in the world, with at least 65 in jail, according to Reporters Without Borders. Last month, the government executed two people it claimed had participated in opposition demonstrations under the charge of waging war against God. At least nine other people accused of being opposition supporters are on death row. "We are closely watching the activities of the sedition...
...entered the New Orleans office of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and posed as telephone repairmen in a ploy to install wiretaps. The accused are charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent to commit a felony. If convicted, they face up to 10 years in jail...
...People are tired of oppression here. We go into the street and get searched and arrested. There is discrimination here," says Om Ahmed, who has two adult sons in jail and two on the run. "The police don't treat our sons the way they treat the Egyptians' sons." (Read "In the Siege of Gaza, Egypt Walks a Delicate Line...