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...labeled the country's "No. 1 Capitalist Roader," while the sophisticated, well-educated Wang was accused of being an American spy by the jealous Jiang Qing, Mao's wife. Publicly humiliated by the Red Guards and imprisoned in 1967, Wang was freed in 1979 to find herself a widow-Liu had died in prison 10 years earlier. Rehabilitated in 1980, she remained a faithful Party member and later founded a charity to aid impoverished mothers. "The country led by our Communist Party," she said of her work, "cannot let families be this destitute...
...Today, Pearl's widow, Marriane Pearl, is raising the couple's son, Adam, who was born four and a half months after his father's death. A non-profit foundation set up by the Pearl family in Daniel Pearl's name promotes interfaith dialogue and attempts to combat the mind-set that led to his murder...
...came because they believe that Politkovskaya was one of the remaining few who stood by values and principles for which they had fought. "That is the problem that so many dissidents have become bosses now," said Maria Rosanova, a living legend of the erstwhile Soviet dissident movement, colleague and widow of late writer and thinker Andrei Sinyavsky. Sinyavsky's trial, along with Yuri Daniel back in 1966, had marked the beginning of the dissident era of the Soviet history...
...year sentence for forging papers to get on Munir's flight. His release "could be a chance for us to determine who was really behind Munir's death and what role the intelligence services played," says Usman Hamid, coordinator of Kontras, the rights group Munir founded. Munir's widow, Suciwati, wants President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to launch a new investigation to go after those suspected of plotting the killing. "How come the government is able to roll up the terrorist networks and make so many arrests and convictions?" she asks. "This case is far less complicated and yet the government...
Both his performance and choice of repertoire caught the attention of Yun’s widow as well as Siegfried Palm, the cellist for whom the concerto was originally written. Sooja Yun, who currently resides in North Korea, was so impressed that she personally recommended that Koh be the soloist in the upcoming festival...