Day: July 24, 2009

Russia: Another Human Rights Activist Dead in Russia – Andrei Kulagin

(Russia) Another Human Rights Activist Dead in Russia
— “Just days after the kidnapping and murder of prominent human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, another civil rights activist in Russia has been buried after being found dead. The body of Andrei Kulagin, head of Spravedlivost (‘Justice’), was discovered in a quarry on July 10, roughly 600 miles north of Moscow”

Chicago – IPT News: “Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian Propaganda on Display at Caliphate Conference”

Chicago – IPT News: “Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian Propaganda on Display at Caliphate Conference”
— IPT reports: “While Hizb ut-Tahrir, a pro-jihadist group which met openly near Chicago last weekend, is surprisingly candid about its desire to re-establish an Islamic Caliphate, literature available at its conference shows the group also views Christians and Jews as untrustworthy enemies of God.”

North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible: Rights Group

North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible: Rights Group
— “A Christian woman accused of distributing the Bible, a book banned in communist North Korea, was publicly executed last month for the crime, South Korean activists said Friday.”
— “The 33-year-old mother of three, Ri Hyon Ok, also was accused of spying for South Korea and the United States, and of organizing dissidents, a rights group said in Seoul, citing documents obtained from the North.”
— “The Investigative Commission on Crime Against Humanity report included a copy of Ri’s government-issued photo ID and said her husband, children and parents were sent to a political prison the day after her June 16 execution.”

Minnesota – Report: “Old South Slavery Defender to Speak at Conference”

— SPLC report on “extremist preacher Doug Wilson” to speak in Minnesota
— SPLC: “Wilson runs an extreme right religious empire in Moscow, Idaho, that includes a church, Canon Press, and New Saint Andrews College. Popular in neo-Confederate circles as well, he co-wrote a partly plagiarized booklet, Southern Slavery, As It Was, defending Old South slavery; his co-author was Steve Wilkins, a founding member of the neo-secessionist and racist League of the South.”
— SPLC: “Southern Slavery, As It Was is a repulsive apologia for the enslavement of black Americans. Among other things, the booklet contends that, “Slavery as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. … There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.'”

Iowa: White Supremacist Neo-Nazis Sentenced in Racial Crimes Attack

— AP reports: Iowa: 2 sentenced in Eastern Iowa hate crimes case
— “Two people have been sentenced in a federal hate crimes case involving attacks on black patrons at an eastern Iowa bar.”
— “During a hearing last week, a judge sentenced Jeffrey Lee to nearly four years in prison and Wendie Groen to nearly three years.”
— “Prosecutors argued that Lee and Groen, and two other defendants, all from Kansas, violated the civil rights of the victims during December 2007 assaults at the Econolodge hotel in Muscatine. They were accused of shouting racial slurs as well as making references about the white supremacist group Aryan Nation during the attacks.”