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...government's tightening grip has manifested itself in every area of Chinese life. One prominent activist was detained and many others interrogated by police after some 300 people signed the "Charter 08," a document published last year calling for more democracy and respect for human rights. China's best know activist lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been in and out of detention for several years and whose latest five-year sentence for "subversion" had been suspended, disappeared once again in early February after what was apparently a first-hand account of his jailing and torture by security forces appeared...
...away its previous conditions of democracy and human rights," says Valery Karbalevich, a Belarusian political analyst. "They still talk about them, but they don't mean it." And Lukashenka seems less than committed to living up to the initiative's "shared values, including democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights." Just last week he said, "It's wrong [for the E.U.] to disturb us over minor points," and called the opposition "enemies of the Belarusian people...
...seems more personable, approachable. He doesn't seem arrogant - yet - and I have respect for him." -Marcelle Freiman, an Australian voter, who backed Rudd in the country's 2007 election. (The New York Times, November...
...decision to move the event out of India," BCCI president Shashank Manohar told the media in Mumbai on Sunday. Bollywood superstar actor Shah Rukh Khan, who owns Team Kolkata and was part of the IPL governing council meeting where the decision was taken, was more magnanimous: "We need to respect the general elections, they are much bigger than our issue. This is an attempt to resolve our problems [rather] than create more." (See pictures of cricket...
...message, Obama professed a commitment "to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues before us, and to pursuing constructive ties among the United States, Iran and the international community" and called for an era of "engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect." By placing his overture in the call for a "grand bargain" that addresses all areas of conflict, and speaking of integrating Iran's current regime into a responsible role in the international community, the President expressed an openness to accommodating some of Tehran's key concerns. But Obama also emphasized that "terror and arms...