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The sentences from Nov. 25 come amid a rise in what Human Rights Watch said in November was a "flurry of new death sentences" in recent weeks. ... Iran dissident group says six members sentenced ...
One of the leaders of the 1970 Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair, Kuznetsov's case drew international attention following his death sentence. As a result of global protests, his sentence was commuted to fifteen years' imprisonment. Kuznetsov was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States.
A judge in Tunisia handed down lengthy sentences to prominent politicians and at least one leading journalist in a move criticized by a media union and leading opposition parties as the latest ...
Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi had his death sentence overturned by the Iranian Supreme Court this week in what his lawyers have deemed a victory for human rights in Iran.. Salehi had ...
The sentence was the longest given to an opposition figure since the start of the war in Ukraine. [12] By comparison, the maximum term for murder and rape in Russia is 15 years. Kara-Murza's conviction is the longest sentence for political activity since the fall of the Soviet Union , and the length of the sentence is comparable only to Stalin ...
A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. [1] In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 20th century, coinciding with the rise of authoritarian governments in countries such as Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Francoist ...
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court upheld a life sentence on Wednesday for a prominent dissident convicted of "inciting inter-ethnic hatred" in the former Soviet republic, quashing hopes for his release ...
Cheng Jianping (Chinese: 程建萍; pinyin: Chéng Jiànpíng) also known as Wang Yi (Chinese: 王译) is a Chinese political dissident and human rights activist who was sentenced in November 2010, when she was 46 years old, [1] to a year of re-education through labor after she posted comments to her Twitter account saying, "Charge, angry youth!"