WKBW Buffalo Reports:
Frewsberg, NY: “‘Hanging right down in front of the door. Right here.’ William Dale Senior says it was his son who first saw the noose. ‘My son stuck his head in it and he said, dad what they going to do? Hang us? He put his head in it.'”
“Next to the noose, Dale found a racial slur written on the windows and the siding of his house. The letters ‘KKK’ were scrawled across the driveway. Dale’s son begins reading the racial threat aloud, which is still visible. ‘It says die,’ he says.”
“Dale says he’s been a victim of racial slurs in this town before. ‘What they going to do, burn us up while everybody is sleeping?'”
“The Dales are one of the few African-American families in the town of Frewsburg. Residents are shocked that anyone would target William. ‘He’s a really good guy. He comes into this store all the time, says good morning ladies. How was your day.'”
Day: July 14, 2009
North Korea Freedom Human Rights Activist Urges South Korean Tribunals
— “Tribunal for North Korea” by Suzanne Sholte
— “Seoul can show that it’s serious about protecting human rights”
— “There are many horrible stories about the North Korean regime’s disregard for human rights, but I recently heard one that’s hard to forget: On a recent trip to Seoul, a North Korean mother told me she and her 14-year-old daughter fled North Korea but were separated in China. The mother waited in China to reunite with her daughter only to discover that Chinese security agents had forced the girl back to North Korea, where border guards beat her to death.”
— “It is hard to conceive of human beings who are capable of killing a 14-year-old girl simply for fleeing with her mother in search of a better life. Yet these same monsters are continuing this brutality in detention centers and political prison camps all over North Korea. What can a civilized society do to stop the atrocities being committed right now against the North Korean people by the Kim Jong Il regime?”
— “South Korea has a tool it can use: It should establish and convene a tribunal of South Korean judges and legal experts to collect evidence and take defectors’ testimonies with the hope that, eventually, those guilty of these heinous crimes face prosecution. Under the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, North Koreans are citizens of South Korea and thus have standing in South Korean courts. There are a number of reasons why this action is critically important.”
“Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims”
Japan Today reports: “Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims”
— “Malaysian police have arrested nine Christians accused of trying to convert Muslim university students — a serious crime punishable by prison in this Muslim-majority country, a lawyer said Wednesday.”
— “They claimed they were visiting friends, but a Muslim student apparently filed a police complaint accusing them of trying to convert Muslims, Xavier said.”
Virginia: Reston Write-In Successful; ‘Holocaust Revisionist’ Blocked From Civic Body
Virginia: Reston Write-In Successful; ‘Holocaust Revisionist’ Blocked From Civic Body
— Holocaust Denier Ken Meyercord prevented from getting elected to Virginia office
UK: “The BNP and the Online Fascist Network” – report by The Centre for Social Cohesion
U.S.: “Strange Fruit Revisited – Neo-Nazis and the white power movement”
Virginia: Racist Graffiti On The Triple Nickel Bridge In Ettrick
(U.S.) Virginia: Racist Graffiti On The Triple Nickel Bridge In Ettrick
— “Authorities are investigating whether racist graffitti on the Triple Nickel Bridge located in Ettrick on Route 36 is the work of white supremacists.”
— “Nazi slogans, dozens of swastikas and even the letters KKK were painted all across the underside of the railroad bridge. Some residents were fearful of speaking on camera to 8News because of concerns they might be targeted by the person, or organization responsible for the graffitti.”
Iran: Singer gets five-year jail term by Extermists
Iran singer gets five-year jail term
— “An Iranian singer, Mohsen Namjoo, has been sentenced in absentia to a five-year jail term for ridiculing the Koran holy book in a song, reformist daily Etemad Melli reported on Tuesday.”
— “‘He was sentenced on June 9 to five years in jail for insulting sanctities, ridiculing the Koran and dishonouring the holy book of the Muslims,’ it quoted a Koran expert and plaintiff in the case, Abbas Salimi Namin, as saying.”
— “Fars news agency, quoting an unnamed judge involved in the case, said Namjoo who has moved to Vienna was convicted for ‘his unconventional singing of the Koran,’ in a private recording four years ago.”
— “Namjoo, who fuses traditional Iranian music with pop and jazz, has also sang in solidarity with protesters who took to the streets after the Islamic republic’s disputed June 12 presidential election.”
Pakistan – Islamists Get Minority Rights Leader Jailed
Pakistan – Islamists Get Minority Rights Leader Jailed
— “All three were remanded to two days of police custody under pressure from Islamists who have harassed Francis and the other two men with false accusations, CLAAS lawyers said, and on Sunday a magistrate sent them to the jail to await trial”
— Joseph Francis, “national director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS)”
— “along with CLAAS official Ashar Sarfaraz and Sarfaraz’s brother-in-law, Zulfiqar Wilson”