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After her arrival at Lukyanivska prison, she suffered back problems leading Ukraine's human rights envoy to describe her condition as "extremely serious".
BBC: Yulia Tymoshenko, file pic from January 2010
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The move comes days after state-run newspapers in Burma stopped their long-held practice of publishing daily criticisms of the BBC and other international broadcasters and ahead of a visit by a United Nations human rights envoy.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, was allowed to meet the UN human-rights envoy, having already met President Thein Sein.
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Jun's release followed a visit by King, the special envoy for North Korean human rights, and Jon Brause, from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Also in attendance at the meetings was Ambassador Ian Kelly, the U.S. Representative to the OSCE, as well as Ambassador Michael Kozak, a senior adviser on human rights who is serving as the acting special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
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The nomination of Jay Lefkowitz as Special Envoy to North Korea under the North Korean Human Rights (NKHRA) act of 2004 was a good start.
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The German foreign minister called in Egypt's ambassador and sent a top envoy to protest against the closure of a German foundation that sponsors human-rights activity.
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