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...Woman Rebel,” which Deol said is one of the few independently produced film on the shortlist, follows Silu, a former political prisoner who escaped from prison to join up with the People’s Liberation Army, a communist group founded in 1996 during Nepal’s civil...
...article also may have initially implied that Silu first joined the People’s Liberation Army only after escapaing from prison. In fact, Silu was a member while in prison and joined up with the group after escaping, according to Deol...
...past couple of months, the severe restrictions on reporting that have accompanied the government's post-election crackdown have again turned Ebadi into a key source of information on mass detentions and prison abuse. The journalists who would ordinarily report on such violations for the Iranian and Western media have largely been banned from reporting or intimidated into leaving the country. In such an environment, Ebadi's voice was newly critical. In early November, she urged the international community to support a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Iran for human-rights abuses. Though the U.N. has passed similar resolutions each...
...Luciferina ... dirty in her soul," who is "beautiful in her looks but also sly and intelligent. Is she the good-looking, charming, clean white face we see here today? Keep in mind that the girl we see is a girl that has been changed by two years in prison." (See the tough women behind the Amanda Knox case...
...spoke, Knox, whose compulsive journal-writing in the early days of her incarceration inadvertently provided authorities and media 300 pages of a "prison diary" to examine for clues to her mentality, scribbled on a legal pad, "In prison, you do not become a beautiful person unless you have an inner light that guides you." Italian photographers captured her note-to-self. (Read about Amanda Knox's testimony in court...