Australia proposes new refugee law for women at risk of genital mutilation or honour killings
Month: September 2009
Members of U.S. Congress Ask President Hu Jintao to Demonstrate Rule of Law in China
Belfast: Detective Concerned Over Unsolved Potential “Honor Killing” of Shafilea Ahmed
Belfast Telegraph: “Maddie investigator Dave Edgar recalls the horrific cases that still haunt him”
— “Shafilea Ahmed, 17, who vanished from her home in Warrington, Cheshire on September 11 2003”
— “Dave suspected an ‘honour killing’ but the killer or killers were never brought to justice.
— “A coroner ruled last year that Shafilea was murdered after rejecting an arranged marriage.
— “Before her death, Shafilea drank bleach in an act of self-harm.
— “Dave said: ‘It’s the one that got away for me, and the one I’ll always be bitter about.'”
— “‘It was horrific to find her body so badly decomposed in that river. Honour killings these days are getting out of control.'”
Egypt: Thousands of Christians Gather to Pray for Equality in Egypt
Egypt: Thousands of Christians Gather to Pray for Equality in Egypt
— “Around 7,000 Coptic Christians gathered at the Father Kyrillos church on the outskirts of Cairo to pray for an end to discrimination during the celebration of the Egyptian Coptic New Year this weekend.”
A Book Burner for UNESCO? — regarding Egypt’s Farouk Hosni
A Book Burner for UNESCO? — regarding Egypt’s Farouk Hosni
— Washington Post: “The most strenuous objections to Hosni’s bid have been charges of anti-Semitism tied to comments he made in May 2008 that he would “burn Israeli books” himself if he found any in Egyptian libraries.”
Egypt: AINA report on Church Firebombing
Chechnya’s Kadyrov Wins Right to Open Offices in Europe
Chechnya Wins Right to Open Offices in Europe
— Moscow Times reports: “Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov raised questions about his foreign policy ambitions earlier in the week when he announced that his administration had received permission from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to open representative offices in European countries”
September 18 – NYC – China Support Network to Host Press Conference Calling for Rescue of Tiananmen Square Student Leader Zhou Yongjun
China Support Network (CSN) Announces:
“CSN to host RAZY press conference”
— CSN web site
— CSN blog
— See also Media alerted about upcoming news conference
China Support Network reports:
“In responding to the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the China Support Network and the Chinese dissident community are rightly outraged by the capture, mistreatment, arrest, and upcoming trial for Zhou Yongjun, who in 1989 was the first Tiananmen Square student leader elected to chair the Autonomous Students Federation of Beijing Universities. The Federation was the occupying force in Tiananmen Square.”
“The Chinese government plans to hold a trial for Zhou, who lives in the United States where he has two U.S. citizen children, and who attempted a return to China in September, 2008. As he attempted to cross from Macao into Hong Kong with someone else’s passport, Hong Kong immigration authorities decided that he should go to Mainland China in the custody of authorities. They transferred him to Mainland authorities who held him in Shenzhen before moving him to his home province of Sichuan and arresting him with trumped up charges.”
“There is absolutely no merit to the trumped up case against Zhou, and CSN has already described this case as Tiananmen Square persecution carried forward into the present day. On Friday, September 18, 2009, CSN will host a Manhattan press conference with Chinese legal experts to detail the case and to announce next steps which are being undertaken by RAZY. RAZY is an acronym for the ad-hoc Rescue Alliance for Zhou Yongjun.”
“The press conference will run from 12:00 to 2:00pm on Friday the 18th, at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. Presenters will include attorney Li Jinjin, who is also well known from the Tiananmen Square student leadership; attorney Ning Ye; John Kusumi for the China Support Network; and Yuewei Zhang for the family members of Zhou Yongjun.”
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September 2, 2009 – CSN: Zhou Yongjun’s case reviewed by John Kusumi
May 17, 2009 – Daily Telegraph: Tiananmen dissident arrested in China — Zhou Yongjun
May 13, 2009 – Asia News: Zhou Yongjun, who was in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, is arrested
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Human Rights Watch suspends researcher who collected Nazi memorabilia — Marc Garlasco
Nigeria: Bishops say Nigeria’s inaction led to deaths during Islamic uprising
Nigeria: Bishops say Nigeria’s inaction led to deaths during Islamic uprising
— “The Boko Haram sect opposes Western education and insists on the imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law. The uprising began in late July after the arrest of some of the sect’s members.”