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U2News - U2 demands freedom for Azerbaijani political prisoners
Irish rock band U2 is demanding freedom for political prisoners in Azerbaijan, using the stage of its current North American concert tour to call attention to activists and journalists imprisoned by Azerbaijani authorities for speaking up about human rights.
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Liu Xiaobo - A story of hope and struggle
http://www.nma.tv/ Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. But instead of traveling to Oslo to receive the award Liu will spend the day in jail, where he is serving eleven years on charges of "inciting subversion of state power" for his part in the writing of Charter '08, a document that called for greater freedom of expression, human rights, and free elections.
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Supreme Court's new term brings fresh opportunity for conservative majority to flex its muscle
Washington — The Supreme Court is set to gather Monday to kick off its new nine-month term, one that is expected to bring another round of divisive decisions on hot-button issues like affirmative action, voting rights, elections and LGBTQ discrimination, cases that could showcase the power of the court's six-justice conservative majority. But as the justices prepare to take the bench — before members of the public for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — the court is also confronting historically low levels of public confidence, which plummeted before and after the June decision unwinding the constitutional right to an abortion. The high court's last term offered no shortage of blockbuster rulings expanding gun rights, reversing Roe v. Wade, curtailing the Environmental Protection Agency's power to combat climate change and protecting religious freedom, and the justices are hardly steering away from politically charged cases. Already on the docket is a challenge t
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