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For instance, they turn practically everybody into a potential human-rights activist, ready to take pictures or video of police brutality.

The journalist and human-rights activist Hassan Al Amin said such problem were to be expected in a newly forming government.

Sultana Kamal, a leading human rights activist, says the system could be misused by political parties, especially by the ruling party.

A Russian human-rights activist, Lev Ponomaryov, was beaten up in Moscow.

His wife, Zeng Jinyan, a prominent blogger and human rights activist, also could not be contacted.

And a prominent human-rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, was abducted and later found shot dead in neighbouring Ingushetia.

Even if Mr Rogers, a writer and human-rights activist, knew Burmese, he would grapple with the secrecy that surrounds the junta.

Human rights activist Enrique Cisneros also had a wait-and-see attitude towards President Obama, but said most Mexicans view him favorably.

Yevgenii Zhovtis, Kazakhstan's best-known human-rights activist, was one such hopeful observer.

Indeed, a short time later, China imposed one of the lengthiest prison terms in a long time on a leading human rights activist.

Human rights activist Durge Rao says his research suggests that the Maoists depend on young boys for the bulk of their recruits.

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and founder of Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran.

It was these actions, says Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran human-rights activist, that landed Mr Khodorkovsky in jail.

"There is huge demand for a more open economy and society, " says Kim Sang-hun, a North Korean human-rights activist.

Glossy lifestyle magazines are becoming politicised; one has even put Lyudmila Alexeeva, an 83-year-old human-rights activist, on its cover.

The annual award takes its name from Andrei Sakharov, a well-known Soviet-era human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

"If we could ask him to resign yesterday, we would, " says Khalid Al-Anisi, a prominent human-rights activist.

Human-rights activist Adama Demster says her decision to run again undercuts the commission's work.

China released Ai Weiwei on bail from detention, after the artist and human-rights activist admitted evading tax.

Qahtani, a human rights activist, said of the men.

Ireland's former culture minister, human rights activist and poet - Michael D Higgins - is on course to win Thursday's presidential poll.

Nguyen Hoang Hai, a prominent blogger and human rights activist, was sentenced to 30 months in prison in September for tax fraud.

A 25-year-old British human rights activist and her parents were freed in Gaza by Palestinian gunmen who abducted them on Wednesday.

Human rights activist Maryam Namazie said Saturday's protests are critical for freeing Ashtiani.

Bahraini blogger and human rights activist Abdulla Mohsen (Ar) has been behind bars for more than four months, according to Nido.

Chen Wei, a 42-year-old human rights activist based in Sichuan, was criminally detained for "inciting subversion of state power" on Feb.

A prominent Yemeni human rights activist, Amal Albasha, is also outraged the practice continues.

Marina Litvinovich is a blogger, civic rights and human rights activist.

Another human rights activist who was arrested (again) in recent weeks is Emad Baghi.

"If they return triumphant, we will be killed, " says one human-rights activist.

The detained American was believed to be 28-year-old human rights activist Robert Park, who is of ROK descent, according to ROK media.

Jens Galschiot, a Danish artist and human rights activist, and his two sons were denied entry into Hong Kong over the weekend.

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