pro-democracy

Rapprochement with pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be going well since she was released from prison almost a year ago.

If he is allowed to crush the opposition, it would chill pro-democracy movements across the Arab world.

To that end the American government has earmarked scores of millions of dollars to help Iranian "civil society" and pro-democracy groups.

As the revered son of pro-democracy leaders Beningo Aquino Jr. and Corazon Aquino, Noynoy is uniquely positioned to stand up to the bishops.

April 1988: Suu Kyi returns home to attend to her ailing mother just as pro-democracy protests erupt against the military junta.

Hollywood celebrities are urging the United Nations to help win the freedom of Burma's detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Rice said the pro-democracy charters must help the people of the Americas and Africa and in the wider world gain a "future of freedom. "

The United States agreed, so long as re-entry talks took account of the OAS's pro-democracy principles.

This is exactly the Kafkaesque world that the pro-democracy protesters were trying to abolish.

When Iran cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in June, he muted his criticism for fear of disrupting the nuclear talks.

Students joke that they will get involved once pro-democracy forces gather steam, he said.

No pro-democracy legislative councillor dared march against the torch for fear of losing votes in the next elections.

The United States agreed to this on condition that any re-entry talks took into account the regional block's pro-democracy principles.

If that balance is compromised, the result could be a wave of social upheaval not seen since the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of 1989.

The white house has criticized the military government in Burma for arresting pro democracy demonstrators about the rising fuel prices.

The pro-democracy camp is planning to put forward 25 candidates to stand for the Legislative Council elections in September.

Gaddafi's fighters were forced out of Ajdabiya weeks ago and the town now is largely deserted but for the pro-democracy forces.

But the crackdown this year appears to be even harsher in the wake of the pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

Vietnam Reform Party claims to be non-violent and pro-democracy, but the Vietnamese called "terrorist organization. "

It has released some political prisoners, opened more dialogue with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and loosened some media controls.

The rise in corruption and the spread of one-party rule triggered some of the early pro-democracy movements.

Syrians appear emboldened by the wave of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world.

But after the 1989 Chinese crackdown on pro-democracy forces, the United States cut off the supply of engines.

It was surely right and not naive to push Syria out of Lebanon after the pro-democracy "cedar revolution" .

The demonstrators accused the Democratic Party, the biggest pro-democracy group, of abandoning its principles by supporting the compromise.

Social networking sites were used by anti-government demonstrators to thwart censorship during pro-democracy revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.

As it happens, Mr Chasowa, a pro-democracy activist, was wanted by police for publishing details of alleged corruption in high places.

Internet users who tried to post content about the idea of pro-democracy rallies found their accounts temporary locked.

Then, tripartite dialogue between the government, pro-democracy groups and ethnic groups must be held.

China restricts access to anything with a Tibetan or pro-democracy flavour.

African pro-democracy movements have perked up, apparently emboldened by the Arab awakening.

Images of protesters attacking Mr Abhisit's car and torching buses hurt their credibility as peaceful pro-democracy activists.

Pro-democracy politicians are expected to be big winners.

Fresh protests flared in southern Syria on Saturday, a day after a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

A decade later succession plans once again unravelled spectacularly, against a backdrop of pro-democracy unrest.

He was appointed head of the Communist Party after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, and left all his official posts in 2004.

In addition, police in Zhejiang have warned pro-democracy activists to stay at home or they may be arrested .

Meanwhile, however, the pro-junta USDP will continue to campaign openly, while pro-democracy parties are made to play a waiting game.

A decade later succession plans once again spectacularly, against a backdrop of pro-democracy unrest.

The Syrian government launched a violent campaign against pro-democracy protesters in March.

He hoped that splitting the lists in Kowloon West could maximise the pro-democracy camp's chance of netting all four seats.

Pro-democracy campaigners, though weakened, are planning new protests.

They say they have been treating female rape survivors who were allied with pro-democracy forces.

The immediate danger is that the economic expectations of the pro-democracy movements have run far ahead of their capacity to deliver.

In the late 1940s, newly emerging pro-democracy movements and political parties were critical of the Rana autocracy.

People who were imprisoned after the violent suppression of pro-democracy movements protests.

A Burmese news magazine has published an interview with the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The emergence of pro-democracy movements in North Africa prompts us to also carefully reconsider how we think about and measure governance.

Students took a leading role in several outbreaks of pro-democracy unrest in the 1980s, including the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

But an Alawi pro-democracy protester calls it regime propaganda, insisting that Islam in Syria is conservative but not extremist.

ECOWAS had taken the lead, holding talks with the soldiers and pro-democracy groups since October.

The administration hopes that the Arab awakening may revive Iran's pro-democracy "green revolution" of 2009.

The "Arab Spring" pro-democracy movement began in Tunisia. Protests forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign in January.

The usual pro-democracy demonstrators were outnumbered by crowds of ordinary people cheering on the Chinese celebrity torchbearers.

As a philosophy student at Lanzhou University, Ding became a student leader during the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

But pro-democracy groups say the military is using the 2010 election to extend its control over the country through an elected parliament.

All of this has recalled the mass pro-democracy uprising of 1988, which the regime put down harshly with the loss of thousands of lives.

Oil companies in eastern Libya are functioning under the control of pro-democracy rebels, local oil officials said.

"Go-Musharraf-go" slogans have become common at pro-democracy gatherings.

August 2007: Protests start over fuel price increases, then swell into the largest pro-democracy demonstrations since 1988.

Pro-democracy protesters did little to spoil the party.

But the rapprochement didn't survive the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests that hit the country amid the so-called Arab spring.

Syria's main pro-democracy group says more than 200 people have been killed.

The "Arab Spring" pro-democracy movement began in Tunisia.

The army, which has brutally suppressed pro-democracy street protests in the past, is refusing to act against the government's critics.

Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will refuse to vote in the first general election in 20 years.

The "Arab S*" pro-democracy movement began in Tunisia.

These men apparently blame the pro-democracy folk for causing unrest, and interrupting the tourist traffic that is their livelihood.

She heads the pro-democracy group called Foundation for the Future.

That is regrettable. That would dim the moral halo of the pro-democracy camp.

That is the way eventually the movement became part of the pro-democracy movement in Kenya.

As lawyers and pro-democracy activists erupted with joy, the government puzzled over what to do next.

"I am speechless, " one pro-democracy activist told al-Jazeera.

Michelle Yeoh, the actor playing the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a forthcoming film, has been refused entry to Burma.

The government can also use the Internet to monitor pro-democracy activities more tightly.

From the "pro-democracy" lobby, this is par for the course.

After Burma's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters last year, European nations urged ASEAN to take a tougher stance on Burma.

Few pro-democracy campaigners think it will be done by January, but they hope such steps may lead to cleaner polls in the future.

In Hong Kong, meanwhile, pro-democracy activists have shown no interest in street fights with the authorities.

Buddhist monks led the pro-democracy uprising last year.

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong fear Macau's tighter border controls reflect the new post-Article 23 reality.

Q: Some Chinese netizens express their support for Iran's pro-democracy party on the internet. Do you have any comment?

Fernando Cheung, a pro-democracy activist and university lecturer, says many of Hong Kong's poor are migrants from mainland China.

Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Burmese Labor and Social Welfare Minister Aung Kyi in Rangoon (Photo: AP)

Harassment of pro-democracy activists in Malaysia reveals a worrying undercurrent of racism

commemorating the pro-democracy movement in 1989