Prisoner
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The issue will turn on whether Ukraine’s President, Viktor Yanukovych, fulfills one vital condition: a full pardon for political
prisoner
and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
The
prisoner
whose release it has demanded in exchange for Goto is Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces the death penalty in Jordan for her role in hotel bombings in Amman in 2005.
Another prisoner, Raymond Azar, testified that ten FBI agents had abducted him, shown him photos of his family, and told him that if he didn't “cooperate,” he would never see them again.
As for the opposition, various presidential ambitions have been manifested, perhaps most especially those of Drazen Budisa (HSLS), a former dissident and political prisoner, and his Social Democratic partner Ivica Racan, the last head of Croatia's Communists.
China incarcerated me as a political
prisoner
for five years, until 2007.
We would all say “the
prisoner
who escaped” but “the rock that rolled down the hill.”
Nikita Khrushchev may have overturned Stalinism, but he was no less a
prisoner
of theoretical perversity.
Paris, although undeniably more beautiful, was in danger of becoming a new Rome, a
prisoner
of its past glory, at best a place to visit, but not a place to be.
Unlike the first group, they would be ready to accept the release of one Palestinian
prisoner
– even if he were responsible for the most brutal terrorist attack – but not a thousand of them.
As a result, one
prisoner
in exchange for a thousand Palestinian prisoners is neither a humiliation nor a surrender, but an acceptable agreement that acknowledges, even on behalf of the enemy, the military capacity of Israeli soldiers.
There are also those who vigorously oppose the
prisoner
exchange with Hamas because some of the released prisoners will return to terrorism against Israel, as has happened after past exchanges.
For most of its history, the Security Council has been the
prisoner
of great-power maneuvering; the General Assembly a theater of empty rhetoric; the Economic and Social Council a largely dysfunctional irrelevance; and the Secretariat, for all the dedication and brilliance of a host of individuals, alarmingly inefficient.
Influential opposition figures – such as former parliamentarian and political
prisoner
Riad Seif and the SNC’s former leader, Burhan Ghalioun – have proposed promising strategies for forming such an umbrella organization.
Although he achieved important victories over the Ottomans, Corvinus took him prisoner, and he was killed in 1477 in renewed fighting with Ottoman troops.
The Conventions require that, where there is any doubt, a hearing must be held before an impartial tribunal to determine whether a
prisoner
seized during an armed conflict is entitled to prisoner-of-war status.
Yuliya Tymoshenko, twice prime minister of Ukraine and a former political prisoner, is a candidate for president in the May election.
In the Kargopol museum, for example, stands a clay pitcher, presented to the museum by the descendants of a guard who appropriated a
prisoner'
s parcel - a pitcher full of honey.
Korea's Economy Remains a
Prisoner
of Korean PoliticsSEOUL: Despite World Bank emergency grants and IMF rescue funding of $57 billion, Korea's economy, the world's 11th largest, remains on the brink of collapse.
A leader of Solidarity, a former political prisoner, and the foreign minister responsible for Poland’s accession to NATO, Geremek had refused to sign yet another declaration that he had not been a communist secret police agent.
But the truth of life for a political prisoner, even for one on a hunger strike, is the opposite.
As a prisoner, I have been forced to focus on what is essential about myself, my political beliefs, and my country.
“My” Mandela is the prisoner, the Mandela of Robben Island, who endured 27 years behind bars (18 of them on a rock in the South Atlantic) and yet emerged with his spirit intact, brimming with a vision of a tolerant South Africa, a country liberated even for apartheid’s architects and beneficiaries.
For Hamas, on the other hand, the
prisoner
exchange embodied the core value of steadfastness.
I talked frankly with TNC Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Deputy Chairman Abdul Hafez Ghoga, and TNC Defense Minister Jalal Dheili, himself a former political
prisoner.
One student was Adam Michnik, later a long-term political prisoner, who became a political strategist of Solidarity in the 1980’s.
After more than a half-century of military dictatorship, Myanmar has restored democratic rule, and now has a civilian-led government led by the former political
prisoner
Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD).
First, Obama did not openly criticize the Chinese government’s notorious human rights record, nor did he use his influence to persuade China to release any
prisoner
of conscience, as his US predecessors always did when visiting the country.
The reason for this reversal is obvious: if the US puts the Geneva Convention in doubt, American soldiers, if taken prisoner, could lose their protections.
Tying a person to a board and bringing him to the point of drowning, over and over, or forcing a
prisoner
– stripped naked and covered in his own excrement – to stand with his hands shackled to the ceiling for days, until his legs swell to twice their normal size, may not have constituted torture in memos prepared by government lawyers, but such practices are surely cruel, inhuman, and degrading.
Three years later, Saddam is a prisoner, awaiting trial.
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