This marked the culmination of a pro-democracy campaign launched by opposition groups in February 1990.

As a member of the Christian Liberation Movement, Grave de Peralta collected over 100 signatures for the Varela Project's pro-democracy campaign.

Letelier's pro-democracy campaign and his vehement criticisms of Pinochet had been under watch by the Chilean government.

On May 14, 1989, Yu had joined 11 other intellectuals in a public appeal to the government to declare the student-led pro-democracy campaign "a patriotic democracy movement."

Nepal has put the police and the military on alert and detained hundreds of people in an effort to crush plans to begin a pro-democracy campaign on Sunday.

Ahmed worked in the pro-democracy campaign led by the Awami League and other political parties in Pakistan.

Only in the last 10 years have pro-democracy campaigns resulted in constitutions and laws that allow press freedom, fair trials, honest elections and other basic rights.

"This is just a foretaste of what's to come," Beko Ransome-Kuti, chairman of a pro-democracy campaign, said of the street violence here and in Lagos.

Huge crowds took to the streets of Hong Kong today, voicing their support of the pro-democracy campaign in Beijing with the largest demonstration in the colony's modern political history.

In a clumsy attempt to foil the pro-democracy campaign, the military then offered to release Mr. Abiola on condition that he not talk to the press or address political rallies.