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· March, 2006

Stories about Breaking News from March, 2006

Bahrain: Ship Disaster

Beside the deepest condolences expressed by Bahrain bloggers to the families who have lost relatives and friends in the catastrophic ship disaster, for Amira, this toke away the excitement of...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
31 March 2006

China: Detained Activist Released

Zeng Jinyan, wife of AIDS activist Hu Jia—detained last month during a nation-wide hunger strike in protest at the government's alleged hiring of thugs in February to beat up a...

Written by John Kennedy
28 March 2006

DRC: Kabila's Rwandan Ties Questioned

Renouveau Congolais posts (FR) a picture in which DRC transitional president and presidential candidate Joseph Kabila allegedly stands to the right of Rwandan General Paul Kagame during the 1994 Rwandan...

Written by Alice Backer
26 March 2006

11 Quakes Hit Southern Iran

Early Saturday morning (at approximately 07 GMT), an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8, struck in Southern Iran, as measured by the USGS. With the given depth of 44 km...

Written by Angelo Embuldeniya
26 March 2006

Bolivia: Terrorism?

Miguel Bitrago writes about last night's explosions in La Paz, which are being called “terrorist attacks”. Eduardo Ávila, with the help of Jonathan Olguin has done some investigating on the...

Written by David Sasaki
23 March 2006

Belarus: March 20 Rally Notes (9)

LJ user lipski writes (RUS) that two groups of around 1,000 people total remain on the square: one group guards the electricity generator and audio equipment, another is by the...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
20 March 2006

Belarus: March 20 Rally Notes (6)

LJ user maty reports (BEL): “Milinkevich has had negotiations with the police. The police has allowed people to stay at the square. People are chanting “Police With the People” and...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
20 March 2006

Belarus: March 20 Rally Notes (4)

Opposition leaders have declared the March 19 election a coup and are demanding to cancel the results, reported lipski (RUS) a while ago. Also, Milinkevich has asked everyone to stay...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
20 March 2006

Belarus: March 20 Rally Notes (3)

LJ user samuel_smith reports (RUS): people are leaving because it's cold; a Ukrainian LJ user advises to put something underneath the tents to make them warmer – on the photos,...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
20 March 2006

Belarus: March 20 Rally Notes (2)

According to LJ user l_u_f_t (RUS), people from the regions are beginning to arrive and five tents have been set up at Oktyabrskaya Sq. already. LJ user samuel-smith writes (RUS)...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
20 March 2006

Belarus: March 20 Rally Notes (1)

LJ user lipski reports (RUS) from Oktyabrskaya Sq. in Minsk for the second night in a row: weather's good; the square's not blocked; politically active young people decided not to...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
20 March 2006

Free Hao Wu!

On March 22nd it will be one month since filmmaker and Global Voices Northeast Asia Editor Hao Wu was detained without charge. We appeal to the Chinese government for Hao...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
20 March 2006

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