Month: June 2009

Washington DC – FBI: Holocaust Museum suspect expected to survive

DC – FBI: Holocaust Museum suspect expected to survive

“FBI Supervisory Special Agent Katherine Schweit said in a written statement Saturday that government lawyers told court officials that James von Brunn (vahn BRUHN’) ‘was in critical, but stable, condition with an expectation of survival.’ They made the statement Thursday when von Brunn’s case was called for an initial appearance hearing.”

UK: Suspected “Honor Killing” – Update on Shafilea Ahmed Case

(UK) Father fails in fight to change unlawful killing verdict
— Shafilea Ahmed
— “A few months earlier, she had refused an arranged marriage, and, during a visit to Pakistan to meet
a prospective husband, had drunk bleach and spent five weeks in hospital.”
— “After her death, police initially worked on the theory that she had been the victim of an honour killing
and arrested and questioned her parents, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, on suspicion of kidnapping”
— “But a Crown Prosecution Service investigation found there was no chance of anyone being convicted
on the evidence available”

—  Previous Reports:
— “A Muslim girl who had refused her family’s wish to have an arranged marriage was murdered,
a coroner ruled yesterday.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575306/Shafilea-Ahmed-was-murdered.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575307/Shafilea-Ahmed-Timeline.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455201/Teenagers-body-had-been-hidden.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafilea_Ahmed

Iran Reports – June 14, 2009

Iranian President Ahmadinejad celebrates win with show of brutality
— “Chanting ‘Allahu akbar’ — God is greatest — and ‘Ahmadi, we love you’ the army of hardliners poured into central Tehran in a massive show of strength for President Ahmadinejad.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6499534.ece
— Iran: “Congratulation messages pour in” — including leaders of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS
http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=545389&IdLanguage=3
— Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  endorses vote outcome
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.election/index.html
— Ahmadinejad says victory is blow to ‘oppressive’ world
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5532492/Ahmadinejad-says-victory-is-blow-to-oppressive-world.html
— Disputed Iranian ballot complicates US diplomacy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090614/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_iran
— More than 100 Iranian reformists arrested -reformer
http://geo.tv/6-14-2009/44169.htm
— Ahmadinejad: No guarantee on rival’s safety
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.election.rival/index.html
— Iran Puts Curbs on Media After Disputed Election
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526273,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31357829/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

(Iran) Ahmadinejad crushes Iran’s reform hopes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6498787.ece

(Iran) Exiled group says race on in Iran to build bomb
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE55C1QH20090613

(Iran) Anti-Ahmadinejad supporters to protest today
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25637237-23109,00.html
— Mousavi supporters to rally in Tehran
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE55D04V20090615?rpc=401&
— Clashes in Iran reveal deep divide
— “Anti-Ahmadinejad protests appear to trigger counterreaction from his supporters”
— “International media prevented from covering demonstrations”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.scene/index.html
— Protests around world
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.scene/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto
— Facebook Web Site
http://www.facebook.com/pages/IRAN/18297877889
— Ahmadinejad defends re-election as violence continues in Teheran
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_390466.html
— Defeated Iranian reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi calls for more protest against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5533782/Defeated-Iranian-reformist-Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-calls-for-more-protest-against-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad.html
— Poll rioters rip Iran apart as Ahmadinejad rounds up opposition leaders while insisting election wasn’t rigged
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192958/Poll-rioters-rip-Iran-apart-Ahmadinejad-rounds-opposition-leaders-insisting-election-wasnt-rigged.html
— Unrest challenges Iran’s republic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099884.stm
— ‘Anti-Ahmadinejad protests will die out’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371097557&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Turkey: Lawyers: Abused Turkish woman in hiding — Nahide Opuz

(Turkey) Lawyers: Abused Turkish woman in hiding — Nahide Opuz
— “In 2002, Nahide Opuz’s ex-husband, Huseyin Opuz, shot and killed her mother in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. Prior to that, he ran over the two women once with a car, and in a separate assault, stabbed Nahide Opuz seven times with a knife.”
— “Police detained the assailant after both incidents and then released him after fining him. Huseyin Opuz remains free after serving six years for the killing of his mother-in-law.”
— European Court of Human Rights: “A court spokesman said this was the first time the court ruled a government had violated Article 14 of the European Convention of Human Rights,  which prohibits discrimination in connection with a domestic abuse case.”

European court rules against Turkey in domestic violence case
— “In a landmark decision on domestic violence, the European Court of Human Rights has said Turkey failed to protect a woman from being murdered by her son-in-law and ordered Ankara to pay damages”

— April 11: Turkey – Extremists Criticize “Feminist” Reporting on So-Called “Honor Killings”
— March 24: Turkey: Poll – Over a Quarter Support Extremist “Honor Killings”


Holocaust Memorial Shooter – SPLC says Michigan man recently took over racist site

(U.S.) Holocaust Memorial Shooter – SPLC says Michigan man recently took over racist site
— Chicago Tribune reports: “The Southern Poverty Law Center says the suspect in the fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum recently transferred the domain name of his racist Web site to a man in southwestern Michigan.”
— “Internet domain registration records show James von Brunn created www.holywesternempire.org in October 2000.”
— “The hate-crime watchdog group said Thursday that Steve Reimink acquired the domain name around the first of this month. The Montgomery, Ala.-based organization designated it as a hate Web site in 2003.”
— “The site was taken down Wednesday, after the shooting.”
— “Reimink lives in Ottawa County’s Grand Haven Township, about 25 miles west of Grand Rapids. He has not responded to phone messages and e-mails seeking comment.”
— SPLC: Alleged Holocaust Museum Shooter Had Given Up Hate Site, Planned Other Attacks
— Blog: “Holocaust Museum shooter’s website registered to domestic partner of Ron Paul campaign coordinator”
— Grand Rapids Press: “Brother defends hate site operator Steve Reimink who has ties to alleged Holocaust Museum shooter”
— “Steve Reimink, he said, apparently took over administration of the Web site simply to help out another person connected to the site.”

Iran Reports – June 12, 2009

Iranians vote in droves, rival victory claims
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSEVA14340720090612
— Ahmadinejad claims victory after Iran’s polling stations are kept open
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6486939.ece
— Record turnout in Iran election as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‘faces defeat’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5516661/Record-turnout-in-Iran-leaves-Ahmadinejad-facing-defeat.html

(Iran) ‘Mousavi win wouldn’t stop nuke drive’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371078382&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Iran) North Korea, Iran joined on missile work: U.S. general
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55A4E720090611

Iran playing double game in Afghanistan: Gates
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=80381

Iran: Tehran student forced to live double life

(Iran) Tehran student forced to live double life
— “Music student Aida Shirazi is thoroughly Westernised – but in public she must play the part of an obedient Islamic woman”
— “she knows that if she wears anything too short, or too tight, she will fall foul of the Ershad, the morality police who have cracked down on un-Islamic conduct since President Ahmadinejad came to power”
— “Ms Shirazi’s personal freedoms have been curtailed in other ways in the past four years”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6482003.ece