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(Germany) Police raid neo-Nazi occupied hotel — Landhotel Gerhus
— “Police commandos in Lower Saxony raided a hotel occupied by neo-Nazis on Tuesday morning after hearing shots fired on the premises.”
— “Parallel raids of apartments in Hannover and Rotenburg/Wumme”
— “Only hours after the raid, a court ruled the neo-Nazis could be legally removed from the premises”
— Previous Report:
—- “Germany’s pro-Hitler party triggers outrage with ‘training centre’ plans”
Germany: Nazi hit man trial to start in October
— “Admitted Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere will go on trial in October for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II, a German court spokesman said Tuesday”
Pakistan: Christians protest against deadly violence
— UCAN News Reports: “On August 2, Churches in Pakistan praryed for the ‘Christian martyrs’ during Sunday Masses and services.”
— “On the same day around 600 Christians staged a protest against the Punjab provincial government in front of the Quetta Press Club in the capital of the southwestern province of Baluchistan.”
— “They carried banners which read, “Stop violence against minorities” and “Arrest Gojra murderers.” The protesters included Caritas workers from Quetta, members of the Catholic bishops’ Justice and Peace Office, and several pastors and politicians.”
— “Jafar George, the Catholic provincial minister of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, said in his address at the gathering: ‘The Punjab provincial government has failed to stop violence in Gojra or act against the attackers. If it cannot provide security to the minorities, it must resign.'”
— “Similarly the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance staged protest rallies in Lahore and Sargodha on Aug. 2 to condemn the Gojra rioting.”
South Carolina: Confederate Flag Causes Christian Convention to Cancel
— WLTX reports: “Another groups pulls out of South Carolina cancelling their National Convention because of the confederate flag. The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) based out of Indiana were coming to Charleston, now they’re looking for another venue.”
— “The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) have more than 600,000 members across the US and Canada.”
— “‘For African Americans the confederate flag is a system of terror, oppression, separation and racism and we decided to stand in solidarity,’ Reverend Timothy James of the Christian Church said in a phone interview with News 19.”
— of Ku Klux Klan member investigated in Louisiana killing…
(U.S.) Louisiana: KKK member can have his guns back, state judge rules in Covington
NorthShore NOLA reports:
— “An alleged KKK member from Bogalusa is entitled to retrieve his guns, ammunition and black robe and hood that were seized during a murder investigation last year, a state judge ruled Monday in Covington.”
— “But the judge said he would not enforce his ruling until an appeal by the district attorney’s office could be heard.”
— “In February, a St. Tammany Parish grand jury declined to charge Random Hines, 28, with obstruction of justice in the killing of an Oklahoma woman who reportedly tried to back out of a Ku Klux Klan initiation last year.”
— “Raymond ‘Chuck’ Foster, the alleged imperial wizard of the Bogalusa Sons of Dixie Knights, is charged with second-degree murder in Cynthia Lynch’s death and is awaiting trial. Authorities have said Lynch was killed after she told Foster, 44, that she wanted to return home to Oklahoma.”
(U.S.) DC: Arraignment set in museum shooting
— James W. Von Brunn “was indicted on seven counts, including first-degree murder”
(Sudan) Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial
— AP reports: “Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court Tuesday during the trial of a female journalist accused of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public.”
— “Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former U.N. worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of ‘indecent dressing.’ Some of the women demonstrators wore trousers in solidarity with Hussein while others wore more traditional dress.”
— “In the clashes outside the courtroom, witnesses said police wielding batons beat up one of Hussein’s lawyers, Manal Awad Khogali, while keeping media and cameras at bay. No injuries were immediately reported.”
— “‘We are here to protest against this law that oppresses women and debases them,’ said one of the protesters, Amal Habani, a female columnist for the daily Ajraas Al Hurria, or Bells of Freedom in Arabic.”
— Tear gas fired at protesters outside Lubna Hussein trial
Sudanese Feminist Hero Forced into Hiding — Phyllis Chesler report on Lubna al-Hussein
— Phyllis Chesler reports: “Lubna al-Hussein, is now moving from one relative’s house to another’s. Why? Because she was threatened by a man on a motorcycle who told her ‘she would end up like (that) Egyptian woman who was murdered in a recent notorious case.'”
— Sudanese Women Activists’ petition
North Korea: 2 US journalists pardoned — Laura Ling and Euna Lee
— “North Korean leader Kim Jong Il issued a ‘special pardon’ freeing two jailed American journalists after talks with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, North Korea’s official news agency announced Wednesday”
Afghan women victims of ‘widespread’ rape: UN
— “Rape in Afghanistan is ‘widespread’ and violence against women serving in public life is on the rise, a UN report said Wednesday, nearly eight years after the fall of the Taliban.”
— “The 32-page report denounces an institutional failure to curb violence against women and a culture of impunity that leaves such crimes unpunished.”
— “The report, issued by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned of a ‘growing trend’ of violence and threats against women in public life”
— “Women are also the victims of so-called ‘honour’ killings, trafficking and abduction, as well as early and forced marriages and domestic violence, it said. Girls and women are exchanged to resolve disputes over land and property.”
— UN Special Representative Eide Urges Afghans to Challenge Violence Against Women
— “Silence is Violence: End the Abuse of Women in Afghanistan – July 8, 2009”