Those fighting to free Puracal include the director of the California Innocence Project, the human-rights attorney who helped win freedom for Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and an ex-FBI agent who was one of the early champions of Amanda Knox's innocence.
Beyond the archipelago, her ability to overcome force without resorting to violence made her a role model for an ever-lengthening line of women leaders--Violeta Chamorro, Benazir Bhutto, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Khaleda Zia, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Aung San Suu Kyi--who, like her, were thrust into public life by the violent fates that befell husbands and fathers.
Obama then met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the lakeside home where she spent years under house arrest.
The gala, which takes place in the Italian capital until 4 November, will open with Luc Besson's The Lady, a biopic of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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It is also involved in The Lady, a biopic of the Burmese pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, and My Week with Marilyn, in which Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe will be played by Oscar nominee Michelle Williams.
Daughters who have followed their fathers into politics include Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the vice-presidents of Indonesia and the Philippines respectively, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Other questions focused on lorry road user charging, the EU-Russia pact, and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Earlier this month, Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament in a by-election which saw her party win 43 out of the 45 seats it contested.
With the November release from house arrest of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, activist groups have called an end to a 15-year tourism boycott of the military-ruled country.
Aung San Suu Kyi will try to win a seat in Burma's parliament in forthcoming by-elections, her party has confirmed.
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