Day: May 21, 2009

Tiananmen dissident calls for ‘white China’ day — Wang Dan

(Communist China/Taiwan) Tiananmen dissident calls for ‘white China’ day — Wang Dan
— “Wang Dan, a key figure in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China, said Thursday he hoped the nation would be ‘covered in white’ to mark the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown.”
— “‘We are promoting a campaign called ‘White Clothes Day,” Wang, who was jailed for years in China before being exiled, told AFP from Taiwan, where he was staying temporarily to continue his fight for democracy”
— “Studying at Peking University in 1989, Wang was first on a list of 21 most wanted students in China after the army cracked down on the Tiananmen demonstrations, killing hundreds, and possibly thousands.”
— “After being arrested, Wang was sentenced to four years in prison in 1991 and freed in 1993. He was re-arrested in 1995 after continuing to campaign for human rights and democracy and sentenced the following year to a further 11 years in jail.”
— “‘We are also inviting over 50 former participants of the 89 movement to get together again after 20 years in Washington DC to have a candle ceremony,’ Wang said, adding exiled dissidents would hold a press conference on June 4.”

— June 3rd Candlelight Vigil: Remembering the June 4th Massacre at Tiananmen Square

— June 4 – DC Rally at China Embassy- Remembering 1989 Tiananmen Square Freedom Fighters

—  DC: Tiananmen Square Candlelight Vigil May 30 and Other June 2, 3, 4 Events

UK: Forced Marriage by Extremists

(UK) Muslim mother who sent her school age daughters to Pakistan to marry their cousins is jailed for 3 years
— “The woman then altered documents to make it appear her daughters were
18 and then forced her daughters to marry.”
— “During the girls’ ordeal their mother from Manchester told her eldest daughter that unless she consumated the marriage, she would ‘tie her to the bed, blindfold her and strip her’ and watch to make sure she had sex with her new husband.”
— “The grooms-to-be then tied the knot with the two terrified sisters in a
joint ceremony as their mother looked on before the girls were forced to become their new husbands’ sex slaves.”