WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried calling Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the imprisoned nephew of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng but Wang was not available, the State Department said on Friday. Wang... [Full Article]
By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, independent journalist and blogger Yoani Sanchez, received a hero's welcome on Monday from the Cuban-American exile community in Miami, her latest stop in an 80-day tour of more ... [Full Article]
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Residents in the Vermont town that was once the home-in-exile of the former Soviet dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (sohl-zhen-EET'-sihn) plan to decide on an exhibit honoring his 18 years in Cavendish. (Source: Ass... [Full Article]
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Cold War politics appeared to take over Brazil's Congress on Wednesday during a visit by Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, with leftists heckling her as a pawn of U.S. imperialism and others praising her for standing up to Cuba... [Full Article]
RECIFE, Brazil (Reuters) - Cuban best-know dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, was greeted on Monday by a small group of protesters calling her a CIA agent upon arriving in Brazil, the first stop on a whirlwind tour that will take her to a dozen countr... [Full Article]
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, checked in without incident at Havana's international airport on Sunday on her way to Brazil, the first stop on an 80-day-tour of a dozen countries. She was sent off wit... [Full Article]
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, said she plans to make good use of "my victory" when she leaves on an 80-day-tour of more than a dozen countries on Sunday. Sanchez, under Cuba's sweeping migr... [Full Article]
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, says she plans to make good use of "my victory" when she leaves on an 80-day-tour of more than a dozen countries on Sunday. Sanchez, under Cuba's sweeping migr... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian opposition activist who committed suicide at a Dutch deportation center after his request for political asylum was turned down was laid to rest Wednesday, as fellow activists demanded answers from the Netherlands over the murk... [Full Article]
Two Iranian dissidents - a lawyer and a film director - were awarded the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]