Read more political prisoner stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11987/political-prisoner.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:25:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69723/suu-kyi-launches-appeal-as-junta-frees-7k-cons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLawyers for detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today appealed her recent conviction that extended her years of house arrest, a day after the ruling junta announced it was releasing thousands of prisoners. Reporters were banned from the hearing, where her lawyers insisted that the law under which...http://www.newser.com/story/69723/suu-kyi-launches-appeal-as-junta-frees-7k-cons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 5:33:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68300/iran-admits-protester-was-beaten-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA man arrested in the upheaval following Iran's presidential election was beaten to death in jail, Iranian media reported yesterday—offering the first official acknowledgment that a detained protester died after the disputed vote. Officials had originally said the man died of an illness, but a coroner's report said he...http://www.newser.com/story/68300/iran-admits-protester-was-beaten-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 7:09:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67691/iran-reformist-publishes-prison-rape-account.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA testimony released by defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi details a male protester's beating and rape at a notorious prison after the disputed election. The first-person account is just one of many, Karroubi alleges, and CNN reports that he will continue to publish them on his website "if the...http://www.newser.com/story/67691/iran-reformist-publishes-prison-rape-account.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 4:30:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64833/brutal-north-korean-labor-camps-hold-200k.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome 200,000 political prisoners are held in North Korean labor camps, where they work up to 15 hours a day before dying of malnutrition by about age 50, the Washington Post reports. Testimony from survivors and former guards has been newly published by the Korean Bar Association, and new...http://www.newser.com/story/64833/brutal-north-korean-labor-camps-hold-200k.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Jul 2009 9:44:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62972/mousavi-backers-tortured-told-to-confess-foreign-plot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIran's opposition says prominent supporters have been tortured in an effort to extract "confessions" that foreign forces in league with Mir Hossein Mousavi are plotting against the Islamic republic, the Guardian reports. Amnesty International, citing "very credible sources," says screams have been heard from reformist politicians jailed in the section...http://www.newser.com/story/62972/mousavi-backers-tortured-told-to-confess-foreign-plot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 27 Jun 2009 7:20:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56611/obama-defends-handshake-urges-cuba-to-free-prisoners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama defended his friendly chat with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and asked Cuba to free its political prisoners, the Wall Street Journal reports. At the close of the Summit of the America's today, Obama brushed off Republican criticism, saying that turning a new page with Venezuela and Cuba represents...http://www.newser.com/story/56611/obama-defends-handshake-urges-cuba-to-free-prisoners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Apr 2009 15:59:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55196/chavez-rounding-up-top-political-foes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Venezuelan government arrested opposition figure Raúl Baduel yesterday, the second such move in recent weeks, the Wall Street Journal reports. Baduel, a former defense minister and ally of President Hugo Chavez, helped restore the president to power after a coup in 2002, but he helped rally opposition to his...http://www.newser.com/story/55196/chavez-rounding-up-top-political-foes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 03 Apr 2009 7:36:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52280/missing-journalist-is-in-tehran-jail-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA day after an Iranian-American journalist's father said her whereabouts were unknown after an arrest a month ago, Iran today said she is being held in a Tehran jail for political prisoners, Reuters reports. The Iran foreign ministry said Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old who has reported for the BBC and...http://www.newser.com/story/52280/missing-journalist-is-in-tehran-jail-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Mar 2009 8:23:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/48099/opponents-of-mugabe-allege-torture-in-court.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMore than a dozen human rights activists and allies of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai were tortured by agents of Robert Mugabe, a court heard yesterday. The New York Times reports that the activists were abducted, detained in secret prisons, and brutalized until they confessed to crimes they had not...http://www.newser.com/story/48099/opponents-of-mugabe-allege-torture-in-court.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Jan 2009 6:53:54 CST