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What's life like for Russia's political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment

February 27, 2024 1:33 pm

Former inmates, their relatives and human rights advocates paint a bleak picture of a prison system that descended from the USSR's gulag, documented by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “The Gulag Archipelago.”

From the discomfort Zone: Colonial supremacy

January 19, 2014 12:07 am

British colonisation actually spread bacteria that infected everybody in our country to unwittingly become slaves to a culture alien to us.

New Iranian president wants 'empty prisons'

September 27, 2013 9:36 am

Iran has already taken steps in letting political prisoners go.

Myanmar frees 73 prisoners

July 24, 2013 1:54 am

Myanmars government release another 73 political prisoners and more could be freed in coming months

Twitter gives Saudi Arabia a revolution of its own

October 22, 2012 1:10 am

Saudi Arabia did not have an Arab Spring. But it has had a revolution of sorts.

As Myanmar changes,so does its leader

April 10, 2012 3:37 am

He is sometimes called the Mikhail Gorbachev of Myanmar,a once-loyal apparatchik of one of the worlds most brutal military dictatorships

22 groups to stage protest against Didi

April 02, 2012 2:50 am

Twenty-two organisations,led by the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights,have decided to launch a protest here alleging that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has backtracked from her pre-poll promise to release all political prisoners

Chhatradhar writes letters to intellectuals on political prisoners

March 19, 2012 2:05 am

Chhatradhar Mahato,who is currently behind bars and facing charges under UAPA,has written letters to the intellectuals asking them to explain why are not they raising voice against the pathetic condition of political prisoners in so called correctional homes in West Bengal and torture in police lock-up.

From jail,Chhatradhar jibe at Mamata: What happened to promise?

March 19, 2012 12:05 am

Jailed architect of the Lalgarh revolt,Chhatradhar Mahato,has written a letter to intellectuals,asking them to explain why they were not raising voice against the pathetic condition of political prisoners in so-called correctional homes in West Bengal and torture in police lock up

First in over 50 yrs,US state secy in Myanmar

December 01, 2011 1:06 am

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived to measure the depth of the political and economic opening the countrys new government has unexpectedly begun