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Neda, a victim in Iran

as a woman and as a symbol of freedom

The Iranian theocratic dictatorship denies the funeral to the young girl shot by a sniper while demonstrating for civil rights in Teheran.

Golnaz Esfandiari on Radio Free Europe
Women At Forefront Of Iranian Protests

Salil Tripathi on Wall Street Journal's blog Livemint
The revolution's children

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Israel inaugurates Open Doors

in memory of the Israeli refugees to the Philippines

Israel remembers the hospitality offered by the Philippines to the Jews in the 30es. In Tel Aviv a monument is there to remember an unknown page of the Holocaust.

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Appeal for Aung San Suu Kyi

let's free her on her birthday

Update
Worry for the impending verdict in the trial tu Suu Kyi.
On the occasion of her birthday, on 19th June, the Euro-Burma Office in Bruxelles launches an appeal to set her free.

Aung San Suu Kyi jailed
The Nobel prize leading the opposition to the Burmese regime
Arrested and tried with closed doors Aung San Suu Kyi, 63 years old, winner of the Sacharov Prize and of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
On the charge of violating the house arrest which she has been subject to for 13 years and bound to expire on 27th May, the icon of the resistance against the Burmese generals' regime now runs the risk of a new sentence to serve in the very harsh security prison.

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20th anniversary of Tienanmen

the repression in China goes on

4th June 1989
The tanks enter Beijing in Tienanmen Square and shoot at the students and workers demonstrating for freedom and democracy for weeks. Deng Xiaoping's Communist regime chooses the hard line and causes hundreds of casualties.

4th June 2009
The Chinese government persecutes the dissidents asking for freedom of expression. Web censorship to block the blogs. Threats to the Tienanmen Mothers.
Commemoration watch in Hong Kong.

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Beyond the Wall: 1989 - 2009

special 20th anniversary of the end of Communism

On 9th November 1989 the Berlin Wall collapsed.
In the year of the twentieth anniversary, debate on the end of Communism in the Centre-European Countries: the causes, the timeline of the fall, the analyses of the events.

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