Ending a nationwide manhunt, the Chinese police arrested an exiled pro-democracy activist who had slipped back into the country to form an opposition party to the Communists, fellow dissidents said today.
His clients all have been jailed or exiled for promoting democracy or daring to challenge the Communist Party's monopoly on power.
Yu Jie, an exiled writer and democracy activist, had one of his books shelved by a publisher that had previously released his work.
The nation's first democratically elected president, the long-exiled democracy campaigner Alpha Condé, and his distinguished finance minister, Kerfalla Yansane, are struggling against an inheritance of systemic plunder.
However, with literal walls being built to segregate Shi'a and Sunni communities in some neighbourhoods, and with the government continuing to target moderate opposition leaders and dozens of democracy campaigners exiled abroad, scepticism is the dominant mood.
In his address Friday, Sanguinetti appealed for national unity to solidly re-establish democracy, "exiling fear so destructive of the human spirit; fear and its offspring, violence.
Claiming that he had great influence with Tissaphernes, Alcibiades promised to return to Athens, bringing Persian support with him, if the democracy that had exiled him were replaced with an oligarchy.
The chess genius Garry Kasparov, a respected intellectual who tried to found an opposition and pro-democracy movement, was not exiled, executed or sent to Siberia.
