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Rare public appearances, low profile mark Raul Castro's life since stepping down as Cuba's presidentFormer Cuban President Raul Castro is now facing serious charges from US prosecutors. These accusations relate to a 1996 incident where civ...- Brazil's Congress overrides Lula's veto of a bill to reduce Bolsonaro's sentenceBrazil's Congress has voted to reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison sentence for plotting a coup. This decision overrides Presid...
- Former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest in MyanmarFormer Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest. Her sentence was reduced as part of a prisoner amnesty f...
- Myanmar commutes ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence again, lawyer saysAung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's former leader, has had her sentence reduced again. She now has over 18 years left to serve. This comes as part ...
- Myanmar frees Aung San Suu Kyi ally, stirs faint hopes for democracyMyanmar's military leadership has pardoned former president Win Myint. This move raises questions about the fate of detained leader Aung Sa...
- Myanmar cuts Aung San Suu Kyi sentence, frees former presidentMyanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her sentence reduced. This comes as part of an amnesty granted by the new president. Suu K...
- Myanmar leader commutes all death sentencesMyanmar's leader commuted all death sentences in a blanket order on Friday, one of his first official acts since the 2021 coup leader was i...
- More than 200 political prisoners in Venezuela launch hunger strikeMore than 200 Venezuelan political prisoners were on hunger strike Sunday to demand their release under a new amnesty law that excludes man...
- Venezuela amnesty draws 1,500 prisoner applicationsVenezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez -- the sister of the top lawmaker -- pushed for the legislation after she rose to power follo...
- Thousands of Venezuelans march to demand Maduro's release a month after Trump's military operationThousands of backers of Venezuela's former leader Nicolas Maduro, who was ousted in a deadly US military operation, marched in Caracas on T...
- 'We are free!': Venezuelans see signs of a new dawnVenezuela: Less than a month after the United States ousted leader Nicolas Maduro on January 3, his former vice president Delcy Rodriguez h...
- Russia outlaws Amnesty International in latest crackdown on dissent and activistsRussian authorities have outlawed Amnesty International, labeling it an "undesirable organization," a move that criminalizes any associatio...
- Former UK envoy to Myanmar Vicky Bowman, husband jailed for allegedly breaching immigration laws, now releasedIn September, Vicky Bowman and her spouse, the Burmese artist Htein Lin, received a year in prison for allegedly breaking Myanmar's Immigra...
- South Korea pardons disgraced ex-president Park Geun-hyePark became South Korea's first woman president in 2013, casting herself in the role of the daughter of the nation, incorruptible and behol...
- Crowds outside Myanmar's prisons greet freed detaineesThe head of the army-installed government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, announced the amnesty covering more than 5,600 people on Monday. St...
- As Spain pardons jailed Catalan separatists, what next?Political Scientist Lluis Orrils states that the pardons will help ease tensions between the Catalan government and Madrid and facilitate n...
- Drop charges against Irom Sharmila, demands Amnesty InternationalIn a statement, it said the state government must immediately and unconditionally release the 44-year-old activist and drop all charges aga...
- Emirati rights activist wins 'Nobel prize for human rights'Ahmed Mansoor has since 2006 campaigned for freedom of expression and greater political and civil rights in the United Arab Emirates.
- China mulls rare amnesty to prisoners amid WW-II celebrationsChina may grant a special amnesty to prisoners not seen as a threat to society, in a rare gesture by the Communist nation ahead of the 70th...
- Prisoner release:Buying truce with MaoistsRelease of political prisoners has been a popular demand - and a populist move - in Bengal , a state ridden with political violence.
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