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 | | ISS Recommendation: Vote FOR the election of the dissident nominees with the exception of Selim Zilkha; WITHHOLD votes from Mr. | | | Dissident's plan: The dissident proxy states that its nominees have not formulated specific strategies that they intend to pursue in order to enhance stockholder value. | | | The dissident recommends a bylaw amendment to reduce the voting requirements to call special meetings to 10 from 50 percent. |
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| | News on Yang Jianli |
| | Dissident's wife seeks to raise his case (200312.10) | | | EVAN M. Prominent Chinese dissident Yang refuses to appeal sentence (2004.5.25) | | | VOA: US Diplomats Barred From Chinese Dissident's Trial (2003.8.2) |
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| | The Last Exit: Song List |
| | Dissident - Vs Dissident (live) - American, Germany I, United Kingdom II, Japan Dissident single | | | Indifference - Vs Indifference (live) - Germany III Dissident single | | | Rats - Vs Rats (live) - Germany III Dissident single |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rock/noise/pearljam/pjsongs.html
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| | China Gives Prison Term To Dissident Based in U.S. (washingtonpost.com) |
| | HONG KONG, May 13 -- China sentenced a prominent dissident and longtime U.S. resident to five years in prison on Thursday despite repeated appeals for his release by Congress, the Bush administration and human rights groups. | | | Yang Jianli, 40, who runs a foundation in Boston that advocates democratic reform in China, received the sentence immediately after being convicted by a Beijing court of spying for Taiwan and entering China on a false passport, the official New China News Agency reported. | | | China Gives Prison Term To Dissident Based in U.S. Five-Year Sentence Comes Despite American Urgings |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Iran dissident sent back to jail |
| | Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji has been sent back to jail after leaving hospital, where he was recovering from a hunger strike. | | | Iran's Justice Minister Jamal Karimirad said Ganji was well enough to return to jail, state news agency Irna reports. | | | In July, he went to hospital as his health worsened. |
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| | Vietnam: Leading elderly dissident to be freed - Amnesty International |
| | On 9 July a fellow dissident, Professor Tran Khue, 69, who had been arrested at the same time as Pham Que Duong, was given a similar sentence - "time served" for a conviction on identical charges. | | | Vietnam: Leading elderly dissident to be freed - Amnesty International | | | He was convicted of "abusing democratic rights to jeopardize the interests of the State, and the legitimate rights and interests of social organisations and citizens." |
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| | U.S. government moves to muzzle dissident voices |
| | Our "Declaration of Independence" and the "Consitution of the United States" were dissident writtings, yet they are the fundamental back-bone of our government and our way of life. | | | "Historically, the United States has served as a megaphone for dissidents from other countries," said Ed Davis of New York, a lawyer leading the PEN legal challenge. | | | Kmiec, who is not part of the legal challenge, said the First Amendment -- and subsequent court rulings -- generally preclude the government from restricting publications before they are made. |
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| | The state securing my monopoly on the blogosphere, and this blog being a public service as a consequence, I shall demand to be granted a minimum wage to maintain the dissident frogman (time to take sides). | | | This mailing list is managed by the Dissident Frogman alone. | | | We've all heard how Bush, 'that idiot' and Blair 'his lap dog' managed to get themselves and their countries isolated, ostracized, and set the whole world against them by bumping into the French's inalienable support for Saddam Hussein opposition to the liberation war in Iraq. |
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| | The Body: South Africa "AIDS Dissident" Dispute: Time to Stop and Think |
| | That decision has been made, and it is hardly reassuring for a head of state to simply bypass the process. | | | AIDS Panel Leaves Experts Out in the Cold: Shock Greets Government Decision to Include 'Dissidents', by Ranjeni Munusamy, Sunday Times, South Africa, April 2, 2000. | | | But we have to recognize that the decision belongs to each government, that we cannot make it for them. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Police dissident terror warning |
| | Anti-terrorism police have warned that dissident Irish republicans may be planning attacks in Britain in the run-up to a general election. | | | Reporting indicates that dissident Irish republican terrorists are currently planning to mount attacks on the UK mainland | | | The BBC's home affairs correspondent, Margaret Gilmore, said MI5 had received new intelligence that dissident republican groups had a new will to carry out mainland attacks. |
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| | CNN - Chinese activists push human rights issue - Oct. 24, 1995 |
| | Wei was released in 1993 after serving most of his 15-year prison sentence but was picked up again a year later. | | | Dissidents in two Chinese provinces also wrote to Jiang on Chen's behalf. | | | Hoping to bring her husband's case to international attention, Wang wrote to world leaders, timing her letters to coincide with this week's 50th anniversary of the United Nations and the visit to New York by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. |
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| | The World’s Leading Dissident |
| | Bush has read Sharansky’s The Case for Democracy, as have several of his Cabinet members, including incoming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. | | | Shortly after his re-election, President Bush met with former Soviet dissident and now Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky. | | | For his part, Sharansky called President Bush, “The world’s leading dissident.” |
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http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4108.html
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| | US says concerned about jailed Tajik dissident - Boston.com |
| | The United States said on Friday it was concerned about the imprisonment of a Tajik opposition leader and urged the authorities not to clamp down on dissent before next year's presidential elections. | | | Any copying, republication, or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. | | | US says concerned about jailed Tajik dissident - Boston.com |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/07/us_says_concerned_about_jailed_tajik_dissident
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| | CNN - Chinese dissident hopes to appeal 11-year sentence - Oct. 30, 1996 |
| | CNN - Chinese dissident hopes to appeal 11-year sentence - Oct. 30, 1996 | | | BEIJING (CNN) -- Prominent dissident and former student leader Wang Dan was convicted Wednesday of plotting to overthrow the Chinese government and sentenced to 11 years in prison. | | | The verdict and sentence were denounced by human rights activists, and the 27-year-old pro-democracy activist told family members he wanted to appeal. |
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| | Chinese Pressure Dissident Physician (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Though Chinese police routinely jail dissidents, the decision to detain Jiang appears to have been made by the Central Military Commission, the nation's supreme military body, with the consent of the party's most senior leaders, including President Hu Jintao and his influential predecessor, Jiang Zemin, according to a source familiar with the decision-making process. | | | Based on relevant regulations, the military has been helping and educating him." | | | The move represents a high-risk gamble by the leadership because of Jiang Yanyong's public stature at home and abroad. |
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| | the dissident frogman Up Yours • A La Vôtre |
| | I then had the unconcealed pleasure to learn that a much impressive panel of bloggers chose to add the dissident frogman to the prestigious company of Tim Blair, Samizdata and Merde in France, in the best non-American blogs category. | | | Consequently, I wish to thank Right Wing News for putting together the 2nd Annual Warblogger Awards and the judges who participated: | | | J'ai alors eu le plaisir non dissimulé d'apprendre qu'un très impressionnant panel de bloggers avaient choisi d'ajouter le dissident frogman à la prestigieuse compagnie de Tim Blair, Samizdata et Merde in France, dans la catégorie des meilleurs blogs non-americains. |
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| | Babalu Blog |
| | He was put on trial within days of his arrest and sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of “collaborating” with the United States. | | | One of 75 journalists and dissidents accused of "spreading enemy propaganda" and jailed in a sudden crackdown in the spring of 2003, Rivero arrives in Miami on Sunday, his first trip to the United States. | | | But using diplomatic connections, foreign visitors and foreign press, Rivero began to get his dispatches out, reporting on the dissident movement, on the shortages, on government actions. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports UK backs sanctions against Saudi dissident |
| | Britain is supporting the action against Saad al-Fagih, head of the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, even though he has not been accused of any offence under British law. | | | A London-based Saudi dissident who has been declared a "specially designated global terrorist" by the US is expected to have all his assets frozen today by the UN security council. | | | Britain 'agreed in secret' to expel Saudis during £40bn arms talks |
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| | The 'mouse' that caused an uproar in China csmonitor.com |
| | There may be exceptions, as when the daughter or son of a high party member or rich family gets in trouble; or when there are excesses of youth. | | | The rest - labor activists, upstart college students, journalists, writers, intellectuals, professors, dissidents, religious believers with too much spunk, those who stand out in a too-public fashion or attract too much attention - are warned, or arrested. | | | Admirers cite her originality and humor: In one essay Liu ironically suggests all club members go to the streets to sell Marxist literature and preach Lenin's theory, like "real Communists." In another, she suggests everyone tell no lies for 24 hours. |
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| | Arab Dissident Movements 1905-1955 Archive Editions |
| | See below for an index of the individuals and movements mentioned in the documentation. | | | Important and timely study, based on British Government Records, of activist groups and personalities. | | | The coverage in the 4 volumes includes the major categories of Arab nationalists and pan-Arabists with aspirations to arab unity, as well as activists with specific territorial demands and other anti-régime dissidents - who sometimes became the rulers. |
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| | Outcry as Chinese Net dissident arrested The Register |
| | Video iPod plus Front Row: Media Center killer, or shoulder-shrug? | | | A Chinese dissident has been arrested by police after being accused of posting subversive messages on the Internet. | | | According to official state media, 40-year-old Du Daobin was arrested for "inciting subversion of China's state power and [the] overthrow of China's socialist system" after posting 28 articles on the Net since 2001. |
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| | Advice for dissident scholars, by Brian Martin |
| | In the case between Clyde Manwell and the University of Adelaide, the university attacked by claiming that Manwell had allowed his wife, who worked in the same department, to work too many hours according to an addendum at the bottom of a carbon copy of a contract, produced in court by the university. | | | Historically, there are cases of prominent dissidents who, after being attacked, spent years trying to become acceptable to the establishment. | | | A whistleblower is like a lone dissident up against a repressive regime. |
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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation |
| | The state party chief’s post, which has fallen vacant with Singh’s resignation, is also expected to go to Dikshit’s dissidents with the AICC leaders upping the ante. | | | This, compounded by the resurrection of her dissidents such as Union minister Jagdish Tytler, is likely to put her on the defensive. | | | The inclusion of bitter critic Parvez Hashmi into the Congress Working Committee will only add to her woes. |
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| | Cuba News - by CubaNet News Inc. |
| | Dissident Carlos Camilo Valdés Figueroa was detained by agents of the political police in Minas, Camagüey province on Wednesday and accused of possessing enemy propaganda. | | | Members of the police accused of confiscating dissident's property | | | Mario Echevarria Driggs, committee president of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba, says two members of the Communist Party came to his home last weekend and told him meetings could not be held there. |
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| | dissident: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Political dissidents usually use non-violent means of political dissent, including voicing criticism of the government, but dissidents can also attempt to displace or overthrow the established government by achieving popular support and sparking a revolution or rebellion. | | | In democratic societies political and social dissidents are supposed to be free from government pressure, but there have been notable instances of persecution, such as during the Palmer Raids. | | | A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure. |
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| | BBC News AMERICAS US politicians support Chinese dissident |
| | The United States House of Representatives has called on China to free a prominent Uighur dissident, along with her secretary and son, who were arrested a year ago. | | | She was sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged separatist activity. | | | The House, on a voice vote, called on the Chinese authorities to allow the dissident, Rebiya Kadeer, to go to the United States if she wished. |
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| | Dissident - Lee Congdon |
| | The Oxford English Dictionary defines dissident as "one who disagrees," or "one who dissents from the established or dominant form of religion." In East Central Europe, that religion goes by the name of communism, and those who dissent must therefore set themselves against the formidable power of the state. | | | While still a young man, the tough Montenegrin threw in his lot with the communists, fought in World War II with Marshal Tito's Partisans, and took his place as a prominent member of postwar Yugoslavia's ruling elite. | | | In the long years since the book first appeared, he has lived the life of a dissident, one who cannot publish in his own country and who must be prepared to endure surveillance, harassment, prison, and public... |
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| | A string of dissident detentions in the central city of Xian ahead of the president's arrival there last Thursday caused Clinton to order his ambassador to make an official protest to the authorities. | | | A second group of Chinese dissidents said Saturday they had also lodged an application to establish an opposition political party -- the Chinese Democracy and Justice Party. | | | US officials travelling with Clinton said they were unaware of Wang's detention but said the US government and official delegation would "continue to raise these issues with the authorities." |
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| | This was shown clearly in November last year when a conference on Independent Czech Literature and its situation, five years after the 1989 November Revolution, was organised. | | | The dissident community in Czechoslovakia coalesced in 1977, into the human rights movement, Charter 77. | | | Let us try to return to personal dignity, says Zdenek Urbánek. |
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| | AEGiS-BAR: AIDS dissident's deadly offer |
| | However, Mbeki's withdrawal from the scientific debate on HIV/AIDS did not impress his critics, particularly the Treatment Action Campaign who accused the president of acting childish and confused. | | | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. | | | Gazi, who had spent more than two decades working in Britain's public health system during South Africa's apartheid years, described Rasnick's challenge as absurd. |
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| | the dissident frogman, time to take sides! :: art against europpression |
| | The dissident frogman was born and grown in a post 1968 France. | | | «At least you're a dissident, which can only be good for your homeland. | | | Anyway, to make sure the outstanding professionals from the mightiest and most rightful armies in History won't end up rejoining France, the UN and the Internationalist Leftists in the Terrible Quagmire of Inaction, the Merciless Merde in France came up with a new task and your devoted Dissident Frogman took care of the mission's order. |
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| | Wired News: Net Dissident Ends Hunger Strike |
| | Hanoi's Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Nguyen Vu Binh, 35, who was charged with espionage for communicating with pro-democracy websites, publishing online essays urging political reform and e-mailing written testimony to the U.S. Congress detailing human rights abuses in the Asian country, according to Reporters Without Borders. | | | "With nine persons behind bars, Vietnam is the second-largest jail for cyber dissidents," said Julien Pain, chief of Reporters Without Borders' Internet Desk. | | | 02:00 AM May. 26, 2004 PT A Vietnamese dissident sentenced to seven years in prison for criticizing the communist regime on the Internet ended a three-week hunger strike Tuesday after authorities announced they would reconsider his verdict. |
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| | What's an AIDS dissident?? |
| | Winfrey had some powerful attorneys to fight for her rights, but few small groups or individuals are able to sustain a fight against multinational industry. | | | The "AIDS dissident" movement is a huge community and there are many of us who post in online bulletin boards. | | | Why haven't I heard about this stuff before? |
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| | Online NewsHour: Wang Dan -- April 27, 1998 |
| | The State Department criticizes China's crackdown on dissidents. | | | I know that New York does not represent the whole United States, and democracy may not be represented by everything that I see. | | | PHIL PONCE: Some of your fellow dissidents in exile have gotten very involved in the free market system here in the United States. |
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| | The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his | | | Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. |
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| | Police searched his house and confiscated his mobile phone and articles written by another jailed religious dissident, Liu Fenggang. | | | "Zhang's is the first case of a cyber dissident jailed for expressing support for the banned Christian Church," Robert Medard, head of the media advocacy group said in a statement. | | | Reporters Without Borders called on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to order the release of Zhang Shengqi, who was arrested on November 26 for publishing internet articles supporting China& banned Christian church. |
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| | Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Al-Kirmani’s writings, which were widely circulated, were to some extent successful in checking the spread of the extremist doctrines associated with the initiation of the Druze movement. | | | As part of the official Fatimid campaign against the dissident da‘is, who had also proclaimed al-Hakim’s divinity, al-Kirmani was summoned in 1014 or shortly earlier to Cairo where he produced several works in refutation of the extremist doctrines. | | | It was in that capacity that al-Kirmani played an important role in refuting the extremist ideas of some dissident da‘is, who were then founding what was to become known as the Druze movement and religion. |
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| | Roberto Giraldo, papers |
| | AIDS Dissident Conferences in Four States in Mexico, October 2003 | | | The AIDS Dissident Movement is Growing in Mexico, May 2004 | | | AIDS Dissident Tour in Baja California, March 2004 |
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| | Support Democracy in China Home Page |
| | Chinese dissident Wang Dan recently had his appeal denied after a perfunctory 10-minute hearing. | | | Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiabo has been sentenced to three years in prison by the Chinese authorities. | | | For most of the last 16 years, one of China's most ardent supporters of democracy has been in prison. |
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| | Dissident Unions Form Coalition |
| | Sweeney is virtually assured of reelection, and he has more than enough votes to defeat the dissidents' proposals when the AFL-CIO meets in Chicago at the end of July. | | | The five dissident unions -- the Service Employees International Union, the Teamsters, Unite Here, the Food and Commercial Workers and the Laborers -- have tried to persuade the central labor federation to shift resources into organizing and to strengthen the AFL-CIO's authority over its 58 member unions. | | | The dissident unions have repeatedly been thwarted because they represent only 35 percent of the AFL-CIO membership and have been unable to win over other supporters. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061502352.html
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| | The Official DISSIDENT VIEW Web Site - Main Page |
| | Dissident View has disbanded on March 21st, 2003. | | | This site was created and is maintained by Pierre Bégin © 1998-2004 | | | Dissident View is a hobby yet serious band, and we play only for the love of metal music, not for bars and arenas. |
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| | Max Stirner, a durable dissident - in a nutshell |
| | Philosophers, provided that they had had Enlightenment-related ambitions, were always dissidents in their time. | | | This article can be read as an additional chapter to | | | Any who had grasped Nietzsche's actual achievement chose to remain silent. |
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| | Harvard Business School Bulletin: Chai Ling |
| | After the peaceful pro-democracy movement was crushed by the Chinese army, Chai had to flee her homeland to escape the authorities who relentlessly sought her arrest and imprisonment. | | | It had begun nearly a year earlier, in 1989, when Chai, a 23-year-old Beijing University student, was elected "chief commander" by the Tiananmen Square dissidents because of her leadership skills and electrifying speeches. | | | Hidden in the hold of a leaky boat, waiting to make a run to the safety of Hong Kong, Chai dared to dream that her long ordeal might be over. |
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| | Newsday.com: U.S.-Based Chinese Dissident Gets Life |
| | BEIJING -- A U.S.-based Chinese dissident has been sentenced to life in prison on terrorism and kidnapping charges by a court in central China, the government said. | | | Peng's supporters in the United States say he went to Myanmar to set up a haven for fleeing Chinese dissidents. | | | Peng Ming, who lives in San Francisco, was convicted Thursday of setting up a terrorist training base in Myanmar and directing others to murder and kidnap people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. |
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| | Wired News: China Locks Up Net Dissident |
| | Du, who works for the municipal medical reform office, signed an online petition calling for the release of fellow "cyber dissident" Liu Di, a female psychology student from Beijing Normal University who was detained in the capital in November 2002. | | | The London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International said 40 cyber dissidents were currently detained or imprisoned for Internet-related offences. | | | In addition to jailing Internet dissidents, China has created a special Internet police force, blocked some foreign sites and shut down domestic sites posting politically incorrect fare. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61046,00.html
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| | Persian Dissident-Human Rights Defender |
| | I received a report that attested to this fact and he was killed because he had a picture of the dissident tied to his chest. | | | While Ganji is battling for his life, Manouchehr Mohammadi, has been on hunger strike for 11 days and lost consciousness and has had internal bleeding. | | | For 9 days they have been demonstarting, many have been injured including women and so far at least one other young man has been killed. |
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