Speaking legal English. Борисова Л.А. - 57 стр.

                                                Disregard and contempt for
                                                human rights
                                                Inhuman treatment
      Freedom of opinion and                    Degrading treatment
      expression                                �� release
      Freedom of speech                         �� detain
      �� enjoy/ to have freedom                 Refugee
      �� achieve/ to gain freedom               Harassment
      To achieve equality                       Civilians
      Total equality                            Prisoner of conscience
      Equality of opportunity                   Censorship
                                                To seek political asylum
      Exercise 2. Paraphrase the sentences given below using the words from
the Vocabulary section.

     1. The American battle for rights that people have in a society whatever
        their race, sex or religion may be helped the battle for women’s
        liberation.
     2. Attacks and behaviour which is intended to trouble or annoy people
        amidst the security vacuum in Iraq have forced people who were made
        to leave their country and other foreigners to flee the country.
     3. The Chinese government should immediately liberate two Tibetan
        prisoners whose medical conditions are deteriorating sharply.
     4. The government has imposed strict rules on the press examining all the
        information that it publishes.
     5. The Human rights organization was set up to safeguard around the
        world the basic rights which most nations agree that all people should
        have.
     6. Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject
        deprivation of and attacks against their basic human rights for no other
        reason than that they are women.
     7. The new syllabus allows students to choose what they want to a
        greater extent.
     8. People from these minority groups must have the same possibilities.
     9. The protesters claimed their right to be heard.
     10. Publishers here are comparatively free to publish what they want.
     11. Six political prisoners from different countries and of different
        political and religious backgrounds were all jailed for peacefully
        expressing their political or religious beliefs.
     12. Serbia should ensure that all persons arrested during the state of
        emergency promptly get access to lawyers.
     13. They were citizens with rights given to them by law, which were
        being denied to them.
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