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December 10, 2008

Bush to Meet Activists, Bloggers to Mark Human Rights Day
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US president welcomes doctor and writer Halima Bashir to White House, to
discuss her book about living in Darfur 
President George W. Bush U.S. President George Bush will meet with an
activist from Sudan's
troubled Darfur region and bloggers from China, Burma, Egypt and other
countries Wednesday to mark Human Rights Day. A White House
spokesman says Mr. Bush will first meet in the Oval Office with doctor
and writer Halima Bashir to get what the spokesman called a first-hand
account of what is taking place in Darfur. Bashir is co-author
of a memoir about living in Darfur, Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of
Survival in Darfur, and has spoken out internationally about the
atrocities committed there. Bush will also meet and hold a
teleconference with bloggers from around the globe. Bloggers from
Egypt and Venezuela will join him by teleconference, while others from
Burma, Iran, China, Cuba, and Belarus will join the president in person
at the White House.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP.


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