Remembering a Jailed Opposition Leader

Opposition leader Eduard Limonov blogged on August 15

Without her, the democratic opposition has no strong leader.

While in opposition, the DPJ bashed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for flipping through leader after leader.

The opposition is led by a charismatic leader with huge popular support.

Between 1998 and 2003 he served as opposition leader on the council.

He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011.

People celebrated the victory, without forgetting Mir Hussein Mousavi, a jailed opposition leader.

J. J. Bossano, Leader of the Opposition, Gibraltar (A C.4 60 2)

The list includes both the president of Myanmar and the country's main opposition leader.

Peter Caruana, leader of the Gibraltar Social Democratic Party, was reappointed Chief Minister of Gibraltar. Joseph Bossano continues as Leader of the Opposition.

El Miseiri, despite his old age, was a prominent leader in Egyptian opposition movement Kifaya.

Gavivina Okudzeto, meanwhile, warned the opposition leader to focus on campaigning instead of the KalypoChallenge

Former Australian opposition leader Mark Latham urged Australians to lodge blank votes for the 2010 election.

Support or opposition to a political leader or his party are not choices made based on a worldview or assessments regarding whether the leader is right.

Hubert Hughes, of the Anguilla United Movement, was leader of the opposition until May 2004, when one of the elected representatives in his party transferred his support to Edison Baird, who was appointed leader of the opposition on 24 May 2004.

President Sata as a victim of the Public Order Act when he was an opposition leader himself.

Brendan John Nelson (born 19 August 1958) is a former Australian politician and former federal Opposition leader.

The injured included the leader of one of the opposition parties the director of another opposition leader, Ould Daddah s office independent radio journalists a pregnant woman who was overcome by tear gas and developed severe breathing diffculties and a youth with internal bleeding.

The leader of Canada s opposition Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, suggests that US power has passed its mid day.

The recent assassination of the secular Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has raised the stakes for women there.

Evo Morales, the leader of the opposition and of the coca leaf growers, may be an honest, if misguided, democratic leader, but are his followers untainted by authoritarian desires?

In 1936, the leader of the opposition John Curtin read an article by Wynter in the House of Representatives.

Mona Ingeborg Sahlin ( née Andersson born 9 March 1957) is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Bossano (Leader of the Opposition, Gibraltar) took a place at the Committee table.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade once labeled the CFA franc a colonial relic but that was when he was an opposition leader.

Sharon's retirement is likely to come within another twelve months, with a new opposition leader having to be chosen as well.

The party's opposition to non European immigration did not change until after the retirement of Arthur Calwell as leader in 1967.

One clan leader, Hilarion Vendegou, claimed that opposition to the mine was harmful to his people's long term economic interests.28

The catalyst for their anger was the arrest and detention of the ailing opposition leader Ayman Nour at the end of January.

And the Malaysian opposition leader Lim Kit Siang has said that Asian countries inaction reflects dismally on all ASEAN leaders and governments.

Ironically, the Public Order Act was a piece of legislation that the Zambian President had to contend with as an opposition leader.

Similarly, opposition leaders in Zimbabwe have been prosecuted for treason sodomy charges were leveled against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was imprisoned for allegedly organizing mass protests.

India s nationalist leader and first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a close friend of the Burmese nationalist hero Aung San, whose daughter, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, studied in New Delhi.

In other words, this is hardly a moment when any leader anywhere would be in a position to offer more concessions to the opposition.

Sharon will then turn to the leader of the opposition, 80 year old former prime minister Shimon Peres, to form a national unity government.

Two of the senators are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, and one on the advice of the leader of the opposition.

At the same meeting, the Leader of the Opposition in Gibraltar, J. J. Bossano, made a statement (see A C.4 60 SR.3).

Look at Putin s attempt to rig Ukraine s previous presidential election, and the on again off again criminal charges brought against the opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko.

After the failure of the leaders to turn up on February 24, opposition leader Bourhan Mohammed Ali stated he feared the protests had lost momentum.

Abdurrahman Wahid, the former chair of NU, for decades advocated respect for religious pluralism, and was pivotal in mobilizing democratic opposition to the authoritarian leader Suharto.

Less than a year after his narrow victory over opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential elections, Tymoshenko was arrested on trumped up contempt charges.

Popular Front for Change and Liberation Coalition of Syrian political parties and is currently the leader of the political opposition in the People's Council of Syria.

MOSCOW Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, recently proposed to Ahmed Zakaev, a leader of the nationalistic and comparatively moderate Chechen opposition, that he return to Chechnya.

The Monitoring Group noted above that Sheik Indohaadde and other opposition leaders from Mogadishu had provided arms to Habsade, opposition leader in charge of Baidoa, for potential use against TFG forces in the fight for control of that city on 30 May 2005.