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		<title>DEMOCRACY ON THE MARCH IN PAKISTAN</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kent Patton

 

After an anxious week of threats and violence, voters in Pakistan went to the polls on May 11to elect a new parliament.  They gave another mandate to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Party (PML-N) and sent the ruling Pakistan People&#226;&#128;&#153;s Party to join the opposition.

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		<title>DEMOCRACY ON THE MARCH IN PAKISTAN</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kent Patton

 

After an anxious week of threats and violence, voters in Pakistan went to the polls on May 11to elect a new parliament.  They gave another mandate to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Party (PML-N) and sent the ruling Pakistan People&#226;&#128;&#153;s Party to join the opposition.

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		<title>ICYMI: THE END OF VENEZUELA’S LAST INDEPENDENT TELEVISION STATION?</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:52:48 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, news out of Venezuela continues to worry activists and reformers. The Los Angeles Times reports that the country&#226;&#128;&#153;s last independent television station, Globovision, has been sold to owners close to the new president]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-the-end-of-venezuelas-last-independent-television-station/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: THE END OF VENEZUELA’S LAST INDEPENDENT TELEVISION STATION?</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:52:48 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, news out of Venezuela continues to worry activists and reformers. The Los Angeles Times reports that the country&#226;&#128;&#153;s last independent television station, Globovision, has been sold to owners close to the new president]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-the-end-of-venezuelas-last-independent-television-station/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: ELLIOTT ABRAMS ON IRAN’S LECH WALESA</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:44:02 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Elliott Abrams latest post on CFR&#226;&#128;&#153;s Pressure Points blog discusses the case of Mansur Osanlu, an Iranian labor leader who has been forced into exile. Abrams notes that Osanlu has been compared with Lech Walesa, the hero of Poland&#226;&#128;&#153;s Solidarity movement, but that in many ways, Iranian trade unions face even steeper obstacles than their counterparts under Polish communism.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-elliott-abrams-on-irans-lech-walesa/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: ELLIOTT ABRAMS ON IRAN’S LECH WALESA</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:44:02 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Elliott Abrams latest post on CFR&#226;&#128;&#153;s Pressure Points blog discusses the case of Mansur Osanlu, an Iranian labor leader who has been forced into exile. Abrams notes that Osanlu has been compared with Lech Walesa, the hero of Poland&#226;&#128;&#153;s Solidarity movement, but that in many ways, Iranian trade unions face even steeper obstacles than their counterparts under Polish communism.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-elliott-abrams-on-irans-lech-walesa/</link>
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		<title>MAY 9 IS VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DAY</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:46:20 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lindsay Lloyd



May 9 is Vietnam Human Rights Day, when we draw attention to the ongoing lack of basic freedoms in Vietnam.  Although Vietnam has made considerable economic progress, the government continues to deny civil liberties and political freedoms to the population.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/may-9-is-vietnam-human-rights-day/</link>
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		<title>MAY 9 IS VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DAY</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:46:20 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lindsay Lloyd



May 9 is Vietnam Human Rights Day, when we draw attention to the ongoing lack of basic freedoms in Vietnam.  Although Vietnam has made considerable economic progress, the government continues to deny civil liberties and political freedoms to the population.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/may-9-is-vietnam-human-rights-day/</link>
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		<title>NEW ON THE FREEDOM COLLECTION: CZESLAW BIELECKI</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:36:56 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Christopher Walsh

Poland&#226;&#128;&#153;s Czeslaw Bielecki has played many different roles in his career as a freedom activist.  He&#226;&#128;&#153;s been a protestor, writer, political prisoner, underground publisher, architect, artist, entrepreneur, advisor to Lech Walesa, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and lecturer.  As made evident in his Freedom Collection interview, Bielecki took a certain joy in undermining the Soviet-backed dictatorship in which he lived.  He elaborates on such stories in works like The Little Conspirator and Freedom: A Do-It-Yourself Manual.  Having helped lead his...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/new-on-the-freedom-collection-czeslaw-bielecki/</link>
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		<title>NEW ON THE FREEDOM COLLECTION: CZESLAW BIELECKI</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:36:56 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christopher Walsh

Poland&#226;&#128;&#153;s Czeslaw Bielecki has played many different roles in his career as a freedom activist.  He&#226;&#128;&#153;s been a protestor, writer, political prisoner, underground publisher, architect, artist, entrepreneur, advisor to Lech Walesa, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and lecturer.  As made evident in his Freedom Collection interview, Bielecki took a certain joy in undermining the Soviet-backed dictatorship in which he lived.  He elaborates on such stories in works like The Little Conspirator and Freedom: A Do-It-Yourself Manual.  Having helped lead his...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/new-on-the-freedom-collection-czeslaw-bielecki/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: HAVANA IN BLACK AND WHITE</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:18:18 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Mary Anastasia O&#226;&#128;&#153;Grady&#226;&#128;&#153;s latest column in the Wall Street Journal focuses on Berta Soler, one of the founders of the Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White.&#194;&#160; O&#226;&#128;&#153;Grady&#226;&#128;&#153;s piece also explores the topic &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-havana-in-black-and-white/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: HAVANA IN BLACK AND WHITE</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:18:18 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Mary Anastasia O&#226;&#128;&#153;Grady&#226;&#128;&#153;s latest column in the Wall Street Journal focuses on Berta Soler, one of the founders of the Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White.&#194;&#160; O&#226;&#128;&#153;Grady&#226;&#128;&#153;s piece also explores the topic &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-havana-in-black-and-white/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Czeslaw Bielecki</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 10:48:46 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Born in Warsaw in 1948, Czeslaw Bielecki is an architect who graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from the Krakow University of Technology in 1997.
Under Communist rule in Poland, Bielecki was a freedom activist who joined the 1968 pro-democracy demonstrations. Despite harassment and imprisonment, Bielecki remained committed to nonviolent struggle throughout the 1970s. He joined the Solidarity independent trade union in 1980. Bielecki was a key figure in Solidarity&amp;rsquo;s clandestine publishing efforts, including the Solidarity Weekly...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/czeslaw_bielecki/</link>
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		<title>NEW ON THE FREEDOM COLLECTION:  VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:34:11 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lindsay Lloyd

Watch the new interview with Vytautas Landsbergis, who led Lithuania back to democracy and freed his country from five decades of occupation by the Soviet Union.

 

Vytautas Landsbergis was born in the 1930s, when Lithuania was an independent nation.  In 1939, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed to a secret pact that divided the Baltic States and much of Central Europe between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.  During World War II, Lithuania passed between Nazi and Soviet occupation.  With the Allied victory, Stalin abolished the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/new-on-the-freedom-collection-vytautas-landsbergis/</link>
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		<title>NEW ON THE FREEDOM COLLECTION:  VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:34:11 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lindsay Lloyd

Watch the new interview with Vytautas Landsbergis, who led Lithuania back to democracy and freed his country from five decades of occupation by the Soviet Union.

 

Vytautas Landsbergis was born in the 1930s, when Lithuania was an independent nation.  In 1939, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed to a secret pact that divided the Baltic States and much of Central Europe between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.  During World War II, Lithuania passed between Nazi and Soviet occupation.  With the Allied victory, Stalin abolished the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/new-on-the-freedom-collection-vytautas-landsbergis/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: ARCH PUDDINGTON ON PRESS FREEDOM</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:38:34 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Freedom House Vice President for Freedom and Bush Institute Fellow in Human Freedom Arch Puddington has a new post on foreignpolicy.com analyzing the 10 worst countries to be a journalist.&#194;&#160; Puddington describes the findings of &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-arch-puddington-on-press-freedom/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: ARCH PUDDINGTON ON PRESS FREEDOM</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:38:34 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Freedom House Vice President for Freedom and Bush Institute Fellow in Human Freedom Arch Puddington has a new post on foreignpolicy.com analyzing the 10 worst countries to be a journalist.&#194;&#160; Puddington describes the findings of &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-arch-puddington-on-press-freedom/</link>
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		<title>THE HIMALAYAN SPRING CONTINUES: BHUTAN HOLDS ELECTIONS FOR UPPER HOUSE</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:21:29 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kent Patton

 

On April 23, Bhutan held elections for its National Council, the upper body of the parliament. By all accounts, and there aren&#226;&#128;&#153;t many, the elections were successful and the newest democracy in Asia has shown the world how bold vision and leadership can reshape a country.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/the-himalayan-spring-continues-bhutan-holds-elections-for-upper-house/</link>
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		<title>THE HIMALAYAN SPRING CONTINUES: BHUTAN HOLDS ELECTIONS FOR UPPER HOUSE</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:21:29 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kent Patton

 

On April 23, Bhutan held elections for its National Council, the upper body of the parliament. By all accounts, and there aren&#226;&#128;&#153;t many, the elections were successful and the newest democracy in Asia has shown the world how bold vision and leadership can reshape a country.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/the-himalayan-spring-continues-bhutan-holds-elections-for-upper-house/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: WSJ ON CUBA’S LADIES IN WHITE</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:48:15 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s latest column&#194;&#160;looks at the story of Cuba&#8217;s Berta Soler, one of the leaders of the Ladies in White.&#194;&#160; Soler and her colleagues formed the group to call attention &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-wsj-on-cubas-ladies-in-white/</link>
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		<title>ICYMI: WSJ ON CUBA’S LADIES IN WHITE</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:48:15 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Lindsay</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s latest column&#194;&#160;looks at the story of Cuba&#8217;s Berta Soler, one of the leaders of the Ladies in White.&#194;&#160; Soler and her colleagues formed the group to call attention &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2013/05/icymi-wsj-on-cubas-ladies-in-white/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Letters to Olga</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:23:13 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[A renowned playwright and author, Vaclav Havel became a political activist and dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia. For his ongoing nonviolent resistance to the authoritarian state, Havel was frequently imprisoned. During his longest stay in prison, from May 1979 to February 1983, the collected letters Havel wrote to his wife Olga were published as a samizdat or underground book entitled Letters to Olga.
Havel&amp;rsquo;s letters were censored and were supposed to deal only with family concerns. But his letters dealt with a remarkable range of issues and ultimately on the nature of...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//l/letters_to_olga/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Vytautas Landsbergis</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:38:22 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Vytautas Landsbergis was born in Lithuania in 1932 to a family of noted intellectuals. During the Second World War, Lithuania was occupied by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Nazi Germany, and once again by the USSR, which abolished Lithuania&amp;rsquo;s independence and forcibly annexed it. Landsbergis studied music and pursued a career as an educator, eventually becoming a professor of music history at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. He has written ten books on music and art history, five political books, and a book of poetry.
In 1988, Landsbergis joined other artists and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/vytautas_landsbergis/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Biscet Handkerchief Message</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:35:44 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Elias Biscet is a physician and a prominent advocate for human rights and democracy in Cuba. Dr. Biscet was among 75 dissidents arrested during the Black Spring crackdown in 2003. In a summary judgment for crimes against state security, he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. While being held in solitary confinement in a tiny cell, Dr. Biscet created this message on a handkerchief, which was smuggled out of prison. The illustrations at the bottom of the handkerchief include a drawing of the Cuban flag, a reference to the Group of 75 political prisoners arrested in the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//b/biscet_handkerchief_message/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Alejandro Toledo</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:53:39 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[President Alejandro Toledo was the first person of Quechua decent to be elected president of Peru, serving from July 2001 to July 2006. Toledo grew up in a large, poverty-stricken family that struggled to support itself. As a young boy, Toledo saw the value of education and became involved in politics and journalism at the age of eleven.
In 2000, Toledo was a leading figure in the movement that toppled President Alberto Fujimori&amp;rsquo;s authoritarian regime. Following Fujimori&amp;rsquo;s controversial re-election, which was surrounded by fraud allegations, Toledo organized mass street...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/alejandro_toledo/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Zin Mar Aung</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:02:20 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Zin Mar Aung is a Burmese civil society and political activist and a former prisoner of conscience. She was born in 1976 in Rangoon.
While a university student in the 1990s, Zin Mar Aung became active in the opposition to Burma&amp;rsquo;s military government. In 1998, she was arrested at a peaceful protest rally for reading a poem and statement calling on the military government to respect the results of elections. She was detained and convicted before a military tribunal, which did not permit her to be represented by an attorney. Zin Mar Aung was sentenced to 28 years in prison. She spent...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/zin_mar_aung/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Bogdan Borusewicz</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:53:35 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Bogdan Borusewicz is the Speaker (Marshal) of the Polish Senate. He was born in 1949 and studied history at the Catholic University of Lublin.
Under communism, Borusewicz was an ardent democracy activist. His career as a dissident started in high school, when he was arrested in 1968 for engaging with the opposition movement. In the 1970s, Borusewicz became involved with the Workers&amp;rsquo; Defense Committee (KOR) and the Free Trade Unions of the Coast, workers&amp;rsquo; advocacy organizations that preceded the Solidarity independent trade union.
Borusewicz rose to prominence as the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/bogdan_borusewicz/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Ammar Abdulhamid</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:52:43 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifacts</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed July 2011
Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian human rights activist who in 2003 founded the Tharwa Foundation, a grassroots organization that enlists local activists and citizen journalists to document conditions in Syria. In response to his activities, the Syrian government subjected Abdulhamid to repeat interrogation and threats. In September 2005, he and his family were forced into exile in the United States. From his home in Maryland, Abdulhamid remains one of the leading bloggers and commentators on events in Syria through the Syrian Revolution Digest.&amp;nbsp;
Follow Ammar...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/ammar_abdulhamid/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Mohsen Sazegara</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:14:09 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed April 2010 and November 2010
Mohsen Sazegara is a former deputy prime minister of Iran and founder of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps who now serves as a leading supporter of the Iranian Green Movement.
In the lead-up to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Sazegara served as a leading student activist against the Shah. After the Shah left the country in 1979, Sazegara traveled to Tehran from Paris with the Ayatollah Khomeini, joined the government of the Islamic Republic, and helped establish the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Sazegara then served as deputy prime minister...]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Bahey El Din Hassan</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:16:22 -0600</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bahey El Din Hassan is an Egyptian human rights activist who has worked tirelessly to promote human rights culture in his native Egypt and throughout the Arab world.
Prior to the Egyptian revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak&amp;rsquo;s government, Hassan, a professional journalist, was an ardent advocate for freedom of the press. Through this activism, he became more interested in the importance of educating others on human rights. In 1983, he joined the Arab Organization for Human Rights and two years later helped establish an offshoot group called the Egyptian Organization for Human...]]></description>
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