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Burqa ban riles French Muslim women

Middle East Online 23 Apr 2010
VENISSIEUX - French leaders may be queuing up to promise to protect her rights, but Samira would rather they left her to wear her veil and to practise her vision of Islam in peace ... Democracy is more than just a theory for me," the 36-year-old said as she shopped at a market in Venissieux on the southern outskirts of Lyon.
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Release of Guantanamo detainees urged

Seattle Post 11 Mar 2004
   Rabiye Kurnaz of Bremen, Germany, mother of Murat Kurnaz, who is in U.S ... Ms ... to intervene by calling on the U.S ... (AP Photo/Masahiko Yamamoto) ... The U.S ... courts. U.S ... Andre Gerin, the mayor of Venissieux, near Lyon, where Sassi lived, said he came to the United Nations "to question the silence and the indifference of the French authorities." ... .
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French Communist Head Fights Back After Vote Woe

Yahoo Daily News 23 Mar 2001
By Crispian Balmer ... Hue's Communists, part of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's government coalition, emerged as the clear loser in this month's municipal ballot, shedding a quarter of all the large towns they had previously ruled ... ``He has to go,'' Andre Gerin, mayor of Venissieux in the south, said of Hue once the extent of the losses became clear ... .
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