(U.S.) Tennessee’s Memphis: Church Tagged with Racial Slurs
— next to the racial slurs were the letters “KKK”
— Pastor Smith: “When I moved in one of the neighbors was kind to talk with me
and she asked me if it would be a all black church and i told her that it wouldn’t and she said, I’m glad cause we dont want an all black church here.”
Day: June 8, 2009
UK: Update on White Supremacist Ricin Plot
(UK) Police confirm jar found in Burnopfield home did contain deadly poison
— Nicky Davison
— “detectives investigating an international group of suspected white supremacists”
Saudi “Human Rights Commission” Defends Extremist Oppression of Women
(Saudi Arabia) Saudi “Human Rights Commission (HRC)” criticizes report on women and Hai’a work
— Saudi HRC defends “work of “Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai’a)”
— “Zaid Aal Hussein, Deputy Chairman of the HRC, said the report by Yakin Erturk, the Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, following a recent visit to the Kingdom was incorrect in its description of the Hai’a as being a ‘source of fear to women.'”
— referencing report described by Arab News as “US rapporteur sees rights situation improving”
Saudi woman minister needs permission to be on TV
Saudi woman minister needs permission to be on TV
— Noura al-Faiz: “I don’t take my veil off and I will not appear on television unless it is allowed for us to do so”
— “Faiz also dismissed calls for girls to be allowed to do sport at school, which Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious establishment has prevented”
Saudi Arabia: Camera phones seized from female teachers, schoolgirls
(Saudi Arabia) Camera phones seized from female teachers, schoolgirls
— “only camera phones having women’s pictures were destroyed”
Communist North Korea sentences two US reporters to 12 years of labor camp
North Korea sentences two US reporters to 12 years of labor camp
— Reports state Communist totalitarian North Korean court sentences Euna Lee and Laura Ling of US media outlet Current TV to 12 years in North Korean “labor camp”
— Quotes from North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA):
— “The Central Court staged a trial of American journalists Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee (Euna Lee) from June 4 to 8”
— “The trial confirmed the grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing, and sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor”
—- English version of North Korea news agency propaganda web site
—- Reuters: “North Korea jail US journalists 12 years, warn UN”
—- Reuters video on report:
—- CNN: Reporters get 12-year terms in N. Korea
—- KUNA report
—- London Times: “US journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korea labour camp”
—- UK Daily Telegraph: “North Korea sentences US journalists to 12 years hard labour”
—- Daily Mail: “North Korea sentences two U.S. women journalists to 12 years’ hard labour”
—- AP: “US working to win release of journalists in NKorea”
—- Time Magazine: “The Jailed U.S. Journalists: Business as Usual for North Korea”
—- Life Magazine: “North Korea: Secrets and Lies”
(North Korea) Families Plead for Clemency for U.S. Reporters Sentenced to 12 Years Hard Labor
— Jailed journalists’ families appeal to North Korea for compassion
Make Your Voice Heard!
North Korea: Petition Calling for Freedom of Euna Lee and Laura Ling After Sentence of 12 Years in NK “Labor” Camp
Join R.E.A.L. today in condemning the actions of the North Korean Communist government in sentencing U.S. journalists to 12 years in prison in North Korea “labor” camps – and sign our petition calling for U.S. and international action against North Korea to free these journalists!
See our petition at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/leeling1/
“We call for the United States government, international leaders, and the United Nations leaders and representatives to condemn and to act on the oppression of freedom of the press by Communist North Korea. We condemn North Korea’s actions in sentencing U.S. reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling to 12 years in a North Korean ‘labor’ camp, and we demand that the United States government, international leaders, and the United Nations take every action to gain Euna Lee’s and Laura Ling’s release from the North Korean ‘labor’ camp where they have been sentenced to be imprisoned. We view North Korea’s actions against Euna Lee and Laura Ling as a gross violation of the universal human rights of liberty and freedom of the press, and we demand our national and international representatives act to gain their freedom NOW!”