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Quezon City, Sep 21 (EFE/EPA).- Human rights activists Tuesday held a floral wreath laying ceremony for victims to mark 49 years since the late president Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law on Sep. 21, 1972. Marcos was eventually ousted from power by a 'People Power Revolution' in February 1986. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA). SHOT LIST: HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES HOLD A FLORAL WREATH LAYING CEREMONY TO HONOR VICTIMS OF MARTIAL LAW AT THE BANTAYOG NG MGA BAYANI (MONUMENT OF HEROES) IN QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
"It is a very fair judgement and I am satisfied", says Alexei Navalny after the European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia's repeated arrests of the opposition leader were politically motivated and orders the state to pay a 50,000 Euro fine. SOUNDBITE (completes VID1264546_EN)
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
The Law committee at France's National Assembly begins going throught nearly 1,500 amendments to the Immigration bill, some designed to undo the text passed by the Senate, others to make it even tougher. The committee aims to produce a text that can be voted on by a majority of MPs by Sunday. IMAGES
People protest in Warsaw against Poland's abortion law, after the death of a pregnant woman. The country allows abortion only in cases of rape and incest, or if the life or health of the mother is in danger. IMAGES
A human skeleton was found buried in a military facility near Uruguay's capital Montevideo, less than 100 metres from where remains of victims of the South American country's dictatorship (1973-1985) have been found in recent years. IMAGES