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CIVICUS World Assembly appeals for 14 civil society activists
Issued on e-CIVICUS 297
25 June 2006 - The delegates of the 6th CIVICUS World Assembly appealed for 14 civil society activists who have either been charged or imprisoned because of their work. They raised their voices in defence of courageous peaceful activists from Uzbekistan to Honduras, who have risked their freedom, and even lives, to advocate for justice in their countries.
Belarus: Pavel Severints - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Severints.doc.
Burma: Aye Myint - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Myint.doc.
China: Kong Youping - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Youping.doc.
Cuba: René Gómez Manzano - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Gomez-Manzano.doc.
Eritrea: Fesshaye Joshua Yohannes - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Youping.doc.
Ethiopia: Daniel Bekele & Netsanet Demissie - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Ethiopia.doc.
Honduras: Marcelino & Leonardo Miranda - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Miranda.doc.
Russia: Russian Chechen Friendship Society - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_RCFS.doc.
Syria: Kamal al Labwani - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_allabwani.doc.
Tunisia: Mohammed Abbou - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Abbou.doc.
Turkey: Eren Keskin - www.civicus.org/csw/WA-Appeal_Keskin.doc.
Uzbekistan: Mutabar Tojiboyeva - www.civicus.org/csw/Tojiboyeva_Appeal.doc.
