41.   The United States maintains Cuba denies its people basic freedoms, and Cuba says the United States ignores the rights of its own millions of impoverished people.

42.   The U.N. covenant lays out basic political freedoms such as the right to freedom of expression.

43.   The United States led a swell of demands at the conference that Milosevic end the crackdown on basic freedoms in Serbia.

44.   The United States maintains Cuba denies its people basic freedoms, and Cuba says the United States simply ignores the rights of its own millions of impoverished people.

45.   These are not states that brutally suppress basic freedoms.

46.   Tunisia, a westward looking Muslim nation, has come under consistent criticism from human rights groups for failing to ensure basic freedoms.

47.   Three senior international human rights officials on Thursday cautioned governments that the battle against terror should not lead to curbs on basic freedoms.

48.   Top international human rights officials cautioned governments Thursday that the battle against terror should not lead to curbs on basic freedoms.

49.   But the message of the speech was that the world must stand firm in defence of basic freedoms, the president told NHK.

50.   Lau Kong-wah, from the Civil Force political group, said the SAR government should not restrict basic freedoms of demonstration.