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Delhi Announces Pensions For People Jailed During Emergency
The BJP government in Delhi will provide pensions to those who were political prisoners during the Emergency and felicitate them, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday.
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UP Government Hikes Pension Of Political Prisoners During Emergency
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesdayannounced that the pension of loktantra senani (people who were imprisoned during Emergency under MISA and DIR as political prisoners) from Rs 15,000 per month to Rs 20,000 per month.
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Maldives Ex-President Says Supreme Court Judge Ill-Treated In Prison
The exiled former president of the Maldives on Wednesday accused authorities of ill-treatment of a supreme court judge thrown into prison following the imposition of emergency in the Indian Ocean island nation.
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In Maldives Crisis, Supreme Court U-Turn After Judges' Arrest: 10 Points
Three judges of Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday evening revoked its order to release nine high-profile political prisoners, one of the points in their 1 February verdict that was seen to have prompted President Abdulla Yameen to impose a state of emergency in Maldives and arrest two top judges. President Yameen, who had minutes earlier restored t...
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Gambia's New Leaders Push For Political Prisoners' Release
The Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow held talks with his team Saturday to plot his transition to power, with the release of political prisoners emerging as a top priority for the new administration.
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Prisoner calls 911 to report his escape
In a bizarre incident, a prisoner in the US state of Oklahoma chose honesty over freedom and called up emergency number 911 to politely report his own escape.
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Myanmar's historic polls: Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is poised to win her first elected office in a landmark election Sunday in Myanmar that drew crowds of voters determined to send the country's most famous ex-political prisoner to parliament. A victory for Suu Kyi would mark a new era in her 24-year political career, which was spent mostly under house arrest, and fo...
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Badal's political imprisonment second only to Mandela
Did you know that Parkash Singh Badal, who could be Punjab chief minister for the fifth time, is the longest political prisoner in the world after South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela? Born Dec 8, 1927, Badal spent nearly 17 years of his life in jails as a political prisoner - he was booked for a civil liberty agitation, sent to jail ...
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Delhi Announces Pensions For People Jailed During Emergency
The BJP government in Delhi will provide pensions to those who were political prisoners during the Emergency and felicitate them, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday.
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UP Government Hikes Pension Of Political Prisoners During Emergency
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesdayannounced that the pension of loktantra senani (people who were imprisoned during Emergency under MISA and DIR as political prisoners) from Rs 15,000 per month to Rs 20,000 per month.
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Maldives Ex-President Says Supreme Court Judge Ill-Treated In Prison
The exiled former president of the Maldives on Wednesday accused authorities of ill-treatment of a supreme court judge thrown into prison following the imposition of emergency in the Indian Ocean island nation.
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In Maldives Crisis, Supreme Court U-Turn After Judges' Arrest: 10 Points
Three judges of Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday evening revoked its order to release nine high-profile political prisoners, one of the points in their 1 February verdict that was seen to have prompted President Abdulla Yameen to impose a state of emergency in Maldives and arrest two top judges. President Yameen, who had minutes earlier restored t...
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Gambia's New Leaders Push For Political Prisoners' Release
The Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow held talks with his team Saturday to plot his transition to power, with the release of political prisoners emerging as a top priority for the new administration.
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Prisoner calls 911 to report his escape
In a bizarre incident, a prisoner in the US state of Oklahoma chose honesty over freedom and called up emergency number 911 to politely report his own escape.
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Myanmar's historic polls: Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is poised to win her first elected office in a landmark election Sunday in Myanmar that drew crowds of voters determined to send the country's most famous ex-political prisoner to parliament. A victory for Suu Kyi would mark a new era in her 24-year political career, which was spent mostly under house arrest, and fo...
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Badal's political imprisonment second only to Mandela
Did you know that Parkash Singh Badal, who could be Punjab chief minister for the fifth time, is the longest political prisoner in the world after South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela? Born Dec 8, 1927, Badal spent nearly 17 years of his life in jails as a political prisoner - he was booked for a civil liberty agitation, sent to jail ...
