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[https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/16/china-release-advocates-nonviolence by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 16/6/15] | [https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/16/china-release-advocates-nonviolence by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 16/6/15] | ||
(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release human rights activists Tang Jingling, Yuan Xinting, and Wang Qingying and drop all charges against them, Human Rights Watch said today. The three will be tried for allegedly “inciting subversion,” which can carry sentences of up to 15 years in prison, on June 19, 2015, by the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. | (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release human rights activists Tang Jingling, Yuan Xinting, and Wang Qingying and drop all charges against them, Human Rights Watch said today. The three will be tried for allegedly “inciting subversion,” which can carry sentences of up to 15 years in prison, on June 19, 2015, by the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. | ||
=====Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906===== | |||
[https://www.democracynow.org/2006/9/8/satyagraha_100_years_later_gandhi_launches by DEMOCRACY NOW 8/9/06] | |||
September 11th 2006 has a special significance. It not only marks the fifth anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington, it also marks 100 years to the day that Mahatma Gandhi launched the modern nonviolent resistance movement. We speak with Gandhi’s grandson, Arun, about “Satyagraha.” | |||
