At the Festival 2008
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This exhibition celebrated 12 men and women who have dared to speak out against human rights abuses in the face of repression.
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This exhibition celebrated 12 men and women who have dared to speak out against human rights abuses in the face of repression.
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Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, highlighted one of the Heroines of the exhibition : Anna Politkovskaya, russian journalist, author and human rights activist, murdered in October 2006.
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Iyad Hayatleh is a Palestinian refugee poet who was born and grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria in 1960. He now lives in Glasgow. He read three of his poems in English and Arabic.
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Burma: 2000 forgotten prisoners languish in jail 20 years after protests violently quashed. Amnesty International Scotland unvails a giant saffron ribbon at Edinburgh City Chambers to mark the anniversary followed by a special preformance of "The Burma Pl
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Burma: 2000 forgotten prisoners languish in jail 20 years after protests violently quashed. Amnesty International Scotland unvails a giant saffron ribbon at Edinburgh City Chambers to mark the anniversary followed by a special preformance of "The Burma Pl
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Burma: 2000 forgotten prisoners languish in jail 20 years after protests violently quashed. Amnesty International Scotland unvails a giant saffron ribbon at Edinburgh City Chambers to mark the anniversary followed by a special preformance of "The Burma Pl
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Burma: 2000 forgotten prisoners languish in jail 20 years after protests violently quashed. Amnesty International Scotland unvails a giant saffron ribbon at Edinburgh City Chambers to mark the anniversary followed by a special preformance of "The Burma Pl
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The Burma play: A comedy of terror. Here the comedians Cilla Baynes and David Bowen.
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Stand up for Freedom, Comedy nights on the 6th and 13th August
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Stand up for Freedom, Comedy nights on the 6th and 13th August
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Stand Up for Freedom - Ed Byrne
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Stand Up for Freedom - Rich Hall
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Stand Up for Freedom - Mark Watson
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Stand Up for Freedom - Holly Walsh
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Stand Up for Freedom - Alun Cochrane
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Stand Up for Freedom - Sarah Millican
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Stand Up for Freedom - Andrew Maxwell
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Stand Up for Freedom - Brendon Burns
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Stand Up for Freedom - Reginald D Hunter
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Stand Up for Freedom - David O'Doherty
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Stand Up for Freedom - Wendy Wason
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Stand Up for Freedom - Hans Teeuwen
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'Deep Cut', the story of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002, and of their parents' campaign for an inquiry into the deaths, has won the 2008 Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
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The Award was formally presented by Arun Gandhi, the grandson of India's assassinated independence leader, at a ceremony in Edinburgh on Friday 22nd August.
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The Award's judging panel hailed Deep Cut as 'Absolutely evoking the struggle of ordinary people against an uncaring system', featuring 'beautiful performances' and 'a play that can make a difference in the world'.
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