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Swiss gets ten years for insulting Thai king

This content was published on Mar 29, 2007 The 57-year-old had faced a maximum of 75 years imprisonment under the country’s tough lèse-majesté laws. The resident of Thailand was sentenced to 20 years in jail, but the judge halved the sentence in recognition of the fact he had pleaded guilty to the five counts of lèse majesté. Lèse majesté – the crime of…

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Skating on wax

This content was published on Mar 28, 2007

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Basel exhibition shows another side to Munch

This content was published on Mar 28, 2007 The retrospective focuses on different aspects of Munch including his influence on Expressionism and his highly original contribution to modern art. Munch, who died in 1944, had a difficult early life, marked by the deaths of his mother and his sister, and his father’s depression. His own health was not very good – he suffered…

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Switzerland answers racism charges

This content was published on Mar 27, 2007 The government said it would seriously examine the report on racism in Switzerland, which was presented at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, and would step up efforts to combat racism and discrimination. But it rejected Diene’s use of “individual incidents to draw conclusions about the general dynamism of racism and xenophobia in the country…

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Christians attack “satanic” Eurovision song

This content was published on Mar 27, 2007 On Tuesday the Federal Democratic Union (FDU) handed in a 49,000-signature petition to the government condemning DJ Bobo’s “Vampires Are Alive” as an affront to people’s religious convictions. The controversy is something of a setback for the former baker’s apprentice who is a household name in Switzerland and known for his squeaky-clean image. The 39-year-old,…

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Rigamonti wins silver in Melbourne

This content was published on Mar 27, 2007 Rigamonti smashed the previous European record by almost five seconds, with a time of 15 minutes 55.38 seconds, finishing just behind the American Kate Ziegler who won gold. Ai Shibata from Japan took bronze. The 25-year-old Swiss broke her personal best by almost nine seconds pushing Ziegler, the current queen of female distance, extremely hard…

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Anabaptist year

This content was published on Mar 27, 2007

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Swiss reach out to Anabaptist communities

This content was published on Mar 26, 2007 More than 200 events will recall the persecution of Anabaptists – divided mainly into Mennonites and Amish today – which began during the Reformation and did not end until the early 19th century. “We, as the indirect successor to the political authorities of that time, regret the injustices done to so many and the suffering…

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Interview: Anabaptist Year

This content was published on Mar 26, 2007 Von Gunten says the idea to put the spotlight on Anabaptist history was hatched in 2003 during a series of events in the Emmental region to mark the 350th anniversary of the failed uprising known as the “Peasant’s War”. He told swissinfo that he realised that Anabaptism was a theme that had not been dealt…

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