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Nothing Can Be Achieved By Killing Political Activists: Mehbooba Mufti
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday asserted that nothing can be achieved by killing political activists like BJP councillor Rakesh Pandita and said such incidents only defame the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Belarus Activist Stabs Himself In Neck In Court: Rights Group
A Belarusian political activist stabbed himself in the neck on the first day of his trial Tuesday and was rushed to hospital, a rights group said.
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Activists At Syria Peace Talks Call For 'Comprehensive Change'
A group of Syrian political activists invited to take part in the Geneva peace process presented a submission to the media on Wednesday after meeting UN mediator Staffan de Mistura, who has said he wants to meet representatives of all sides in the conflict.
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Writer Arundhati Roy Returns National Award
Writer Arundhati Roy has said that she feels "proud" to return her national award as part of the political movement against "ideological visciousness" and threats to free speech.
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Paid Holidays for Chinese Dissidents -- With Minders
As top Communist leaders gathered in Beijing, veteran Chinese political activist He Depu was obliged to leave town -- for an all-expenses-paid holiday to the tropical island of Hainan, complete with police escorts.
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China Detains Journalist on Charges of Leaking State Secrets
Chinese authorities have detained an outspoken journalist and political activist accused of providing state secrets to foreign contacts, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday, and state television aired images of her making a confession.
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PKV Award for P Govinda Pillai
Eminent Marxist thinker, writer, social and political activist P Govinda Pillai has been chosen for the PKV Award for the year 2011.
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Nothing Can Be Achieved By Killing Political Activists: Mehbooba Mufti
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday asserted that nothing can be achieved by killing political activists like BJP councillor Rakesh Pandita and said such incidents only defame the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Belarus Activist Stabs Himself In Neck In Court: Rights Group
A Belarusian political activist stabbed himself in the neck on the first day of his trial Tuesday and was rushed to hospital, a rights group said.
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Activists At Syria Peace Talks Call For 'Comprehensive Change'
A group of Syrian political activists invited to take part in the Geneva peace process presented a submission to the media on Wednesday after meeting UN mediator Staffan de Mistura, who has said he wants to meet representatives of all sides in the conflict.
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Writer Arundhati Roy Returns National Award
Writer Arundhati Roy has said that she feels "proud" to return her national award as part of the political movement against "ideological visciousness" and threats to free speech.
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Paid Holidays for Chinese Dissidents -- With Minders
As top Communist leaders gathered in Beijing, veteran Chinese political activist He Depu was obliged to leave town -- for an all-expenses-paid holiday to the tropical island of Hainan, complete with police escorts.
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China Detains Journalist on Charges of Leaking State Secrets
Chinese authorities have detained an outspoken journalist and political activist accused of providing state secrets to foreign contacts, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday, and state television aired images of her making a confession.
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PKV Award for P Govinda Pillai
Eminent Marxist thinker, writer, social and political activist P Govinda Pillai has been chosen for the PKV Award for the year 2011.
