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Award-winning Cuban dissident ‘detained and beaten’
Guillermo Farinas, a leading Cuban dissident and winner of the European parliament’s top human rights prize, was arrested and for the first time beaten in detention, said his mother and activists. Farinas, who won the Sakharov rights prize in 2010 after going on a 135-day hunger strike to press for…
China invokes Waco siege in denouncing Dalai Lama
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media denounced the Dalai Lama on Monday for his views on reincarnation, saying that the exiled Buddhist monk was trying to revise history, compounding his crimes as a separatist. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Tibetan spiritual leader in September said he or other Tibetan…
Ex-warlord emerges as kingmaker after Liberian vote
Notorious ex-warlord Prince Johnson, who was filmed ordering his men to cut off the ears of dictator Samuel Doe two decades ago, has emerged as a surprising kingmaker in Liberia’s presidential election. Placing a strong third with half the polling stations tallied, the 59-year old former rebel leader looks like…
Al Gore ‘cheers’ Wall Street protesters
WASHINGTON — Former US vice president turned climate-change activist Al Gore threw his support behind Occupy Wall Street on Thursday, calling it a first step towards fixing a democracy in crisis. “From the economy to the climate crisis, our leaders have pursued solutions that are not solving our problems. Instead…
Dalai Lama pokes fun at China slurs, slams censorship
The Dalai Lama on Saturday slamed censorship in China as “immoral” and poked fun at denunciations of himself in a video chat with Desmond Tutu after he was not granted a visa in time to travel to South Africa. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader’s absence was symbolised by an empty…
Egypt activists hail Arab Nobel prize winner
Egyptian cyber dissidents who were touted as Nobel Peace Prize candidates, on Friday congratulated the Yemeni activist who shared the honour with two Liberians for her “well deserved win”. “Congratulations to Tawakkul Karman for her well deserved win,” Wael Ghonim posted in a Twitter message, describing himself as “a proud…
Three women’s rights activists share Nobel Peace Prize
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The three women will share the 2011 award “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation…
World will rally around 2011 Peace Prize pick: Nobel chief
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize will be seen as a unifying choice and will be less controversial than last year’s award, the head of the prize committee said Thursday, a day before the announcement. “I think (this year’s prize) will be well-received all over the world,”Nobel Committee chief Thorbjoern Jagland told Norwegian public…
China’s Nobel laureate leaves jail briefly: brother
China’s jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was briefly allowed out of prison last month after his father died, his brother told AFP, in an unusual break in the dissident’s 11-year term. Liu Xiaoxuan said his elder brother “was sent back home on September 18″ to mark the seventh…
Arab bloggers debate role ahead of Nobel Peace Prize
Arab bloggers in Tunis on Monday discussed the role they played in the “Arab Spring,” just days before the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize for which some among them are seen as frontrunners. As the meeting got underway in the country whose “Jasmine Revolution” kicked off the turmoil in…
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