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...RELEASED. PHUNTSONG NYIDRON, 37, last of a group of 14 Tibetan "singing nuns" who attracted worldwide attention after recordings of them singing proindependence songs were smuggled out of a Chinese prison; in Lhasa, Tibet. Nyidron was jailed in 1989 for "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement" after participating with other nuns in a public protest...
...time is over,'" says the police sergeant. "'Now it's our time.'" Bound and blindfolded, Mohsen was taken to the Islamic courts of Muqtada al-Sadr, the most militant cleric in the holy city of Najaf, where he was beaten with a police baton and held in an underground prison for 16 days, until his commanding officer negotiated a $200 fee for his release...
...poll, however, 71% agreed that America 's pursuit of its interests is "inconsiderate and egotistical." Al-Qaeda Accused TURKEY Prosecutors charged 69 suspects with involvement in the November suicide bombings in Istanbul that killed 63 people. The indictment called for life imprisonment for five of the accused, and long prison terms for the others. Prosecutors allege that all of the suspects belonged to a Turkish cell of the al-Qaeda terror network. Out with the Old RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin abruptly sacked Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his entire Cabinet, saying he wanted to introduce a new premier ahead...
...concentration camps, modeled on the Soviet Gulag, which holds an estimated 200,000 or more inmates. The documentary’s centerpiece was an interview with Kwon Hyok, a former North Korean intelligence agent who defected to the South in 1999. He was once the head of security at Prison Camp 22—where, he now alleges, chemical weapons were tested on prisoners. “I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber,” he said. “The parents were vomiting and dying...
...North Korean prisoner told the BBC that she’d once been commanded to poison dozens of fellow inmates. “An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,” Sun-ok Lee claimed. “One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women.” She went on: “All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes...