Canada: Confront ‘diabolical’ practice: Oppal
— ‘Honour killing’ cases spark debates over religion, racism
Month: July 2009
Canada faces prospect of dealing with more ‘honour killing’ cases: expert
Gaza: Hamas repression of women continues
Jerusalem Post report on continuing Hamas repression of women in Gaza:
Hamas to female lawyers: Wear headscarf
— “‘Showing a woman’s hair is forbidden,’ the Hamas-appointed Halabi told The Associated Press. ‘We will not allow people to corrupt morals. This [dress code] will improve work in the courts.'”
— “Palestinian female journalist Asma al-Ghul… “said that many Palestinian women have noticed the presence of the police officers at the beaches and other sites”
— “She said that the talk in the Gaza Strip these days was about Hamas’s intention to impose the hijab on all female school children from first to 12th grade.”
Florida: Police Investigate Ormond ‘KKK’ Cross Burning — Ku Klux Klan
Florida: Police Investigate Ormond ‘KKK’ Cross Burning
— “Ormond Beach police are investigating a cross burning Friday.”
— “The remnants of the cross were found by city workers. They said a cross was made from lumber and was standing upright in a pile of dirt and clay at the water tower on Leeway Trail by Airport Road.”
— “The letters “KKK” were scrawled across the cross and in the dirt, according to the workers. The wood was partially burned.”
Iran Protest News: July 26, 2009
(Iran) Mir Hossein Mousavi plans memorial for victims of election violence
(Iran) Revolutionary Guard tightens hold in Iran crisis
(Iran) Another Iran protester dies in jail: Report
— “An Iranian student arrested in protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election has died in jail, a newspaper said today, the
second such death reported in recent days. ”
— “Amir Javadifar, “a student of industrial management in Qazvin (city) died in prison,” the reformist Etemad newspaper said, adding that his family has been asked to come for the body today morning.”
— “Etemad said Javadifar had been arrested in July 9 protests and had injuries in his arm and nose but it did not elaborate on the cause of death.”
— “Newspapers reported yesterday that Mohsen Ruholamini, 25, who had also been arrested on July 9 when thousands of protesters took to the streets on the anniversary of a bloody student uprising in 1999, also died in custody.”
(Iran) Senate OKs funds to thwart Iran Web censors
— “The Victim of Iranian Censorship, or VOICE, Act, was added to the Senate’s defense-authorization bill Thursday evening as a response to mass protests following Iran’s disputed June 12 presidential elections and amid concerns that Western companies have sold Iran technology used to monitor dissidents”
Iran: two protesters die in Iranian jail – Mohsen Ruholamini and Amir Javadifar
(Iran) Another Iran protester dies in jail: Report
— “An Iranian student arrested in protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election has died in jail, a newspaper said today, the
second such death reported in recent days. ”
— “Amir Javadifar, “a student of industrial management in Qazvin (city) died in prison,” the reformist Etemad newspaper said, adding that his family has been asked to come for the body today morning.”
— “Etemad said Javadifar had been arrested in July 9 protests and had injuries in his arm and nose but it did not elaborate on the cause of death.”
— “Newspapers reported yesterday that Mohsen Ruholamini, 25, who had also been arrested on July 9 when thousands of protesters took to the streets on the anniversary of a bloody student uprising in 1999, also died in custody.”
North Korea: My Mother is a Hero: Journalists Detained in N. Korea
Robert Fulford: “As Muslim women suffer, feminists avert their gaze”
Robert Fulford: “As Muslim women suffer, feminists avert their gaze”
— “In Sudan, Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussein has declared, ‘I am fighting for all women.’ But in our world, not all of them understand or care.”
— Note from Responsible for Equality And Liberty: we are reaching out to increasing numbers of supporters of women’s rights who are publicly speaking out and challenging the extremist war on women
North Korea ‘Tests Weapons on Children’
North Korea ‘Tests Weapons on Children’
— “But among the accounts they carried with them is one of the most shocking yet to emerge — namely the use of humans, specifically mentally or physically handicapped children, to test North Korea’s biological and chemical weapons.”
Escaping Saudi Arabia’s gilded cage – on oppression of women in Saudi Arabia
Escaping Saudi Arabia’s gilded cage – on oppression of women in Saudi Arabia
— Saudi Arabia “oppressing human rights, religious freedom and women for the past six decades”