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Venezuela’s political prisoners and the limbo of indifference

On 18 March 2014, Daniel Ceballos, Mayor of San Cristóbal, one of the most politically important cities in Venezuela, was arrested by officers of the Bolivarian National Service of Intelligence (SEBIN) and taken into custody. ...

by Claudia Gonzalez

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The Dubious Arrests And Mistreatment Of Basque Political Activists

Early in November, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL), published their “Motion regarding the situation of Lawyers and Human Rights defende...

by Sanne Jehoul

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Russian Political Prisoners Ignored by Everyone

Sergey Udaltsov, a leftist protest leader currently under house arrest pending investigation of his alleged planning of the May 6, 2012 Bolotnaya Square riots (the so-called Bolotnaya Square Case), exemplifies the popular sayi...

by Andrey Tselikov

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