Iraq: Powerful Explosions Kill More Than 30 Shi’ite Pilgrims in Karbala
Day: February 5, 2010
Pakistan: Shi’ites Targeted by Bombings in Karachi
Pakistan: Shi’ites Targeted by Bombings in Karachi
— Pakistan: Sunni militants bomb Karachi bus, hospital
— “Bombs target Shiites, killing 25 people in Pakistan’s largest city”
— Geo-TV report
Turkey: European Court Rules Against Turkey’s Religion ID
Annual Persecution Report 2009: ChinaAid Releases Summary and Analysis of Christian Persecution
Pakistan: Activists warn, the murder of a 12-year-old Christian girl could go unpunished
Pakistan: Activists warn, the murder of a 12-year-old Christian girl could go unpunished
— Asia News: “Catholic leaders and Pakistani human rights activists are alarmed that the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, Shazia Bashir, on 23 January might go unpunished. The main suspect is a rich and powerful Muslim lawyer from Lahore, Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem, who was employing the girl as a domestic. The city’s bar association has sided with the suspect, a former president of the association, who is being treated as a VIP whilst in custody. Prosecutors meanwhile have delayed filing charges.”
— “Shazia’s family said they had no confidence in the committee set up by Punjab’s chief minister Shahbaz Sharif because of its delaying tactics. Some of her relatives and a number of human rights activists have staged a protest in front of the Lahore Press Club and have decided to sue.”
— Extension in Police remand of Teenage Christian girl Shazia killer
Pakistan: New Video of Taliban Whipping Boy, Man in Street
More reports of the supremacist hate and violence from the Taliban in Pakistan reported from Associated Press today.
— AP reports: “The tribal elder who provided the footage said the man was being punished for allegedly “working against the Taliban” by speaking out against the militants. The second victim appears to be a teenage boy, who the tribal elder said was being blamed for not growing a beard. The third victim was said to be punished for not praying.”
— “A crowd of men and boys watched the beatings, mostly in silence.”
— Video
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— AP also reports: “The video was shot on a mobile phone on Feb. 3 and passed to a local journalist who occasionally provides video to Associated Press Television News. The man who provided the clip said it was taken in the Mamozai area of the Orakzai tribal region, though there was no way of verifying that because travel there is dangerous for outsiders. The tribal elder requested anonymity out of fear for his life.”
— “The Taliban are known to beat people in areas they control if they are suspected of criminal acts, spying or violating the militants’ ultra-strict interpretation of Islamic law. People accused of serious crimes are often reportedly killed.”
Guinea: Muslims, Christians clash in southern Guinea
Guinea: Muslims, Christians clash in southern Guinea
— Reuters reports that conflict began over street dispute of Christian woman’s dress in public
— Reuters: “Police in Guinea broke up a street dispute between Christians and Muslims in the south of the country on Friday, witnesses said, adding that several people had been wounded by stone-throwing.”
— “The incident took place in the home region of junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara, whose wounding in an assassination bid last December has led to steps aimed at restoring civilian rule in the West African state and major metals exporter.”
— “Tensions in the town of Nzerekore, a Christian enclave in the mainly Muslim country, rose last week after a Christian woman was accused of passing by praying Muslims in indecent dress.”
— “‘Today the Christians struck back and threw stones at people outside the mosque, starting a fight,’ one town resident told Reuters by telephone.”
Iran: British Woman Begs for Mercy – Facing Lashes for Joining Protests
Iran: Please forgive me, begs British woman facing lashes over ‘subversion’ in Iran
— London Times: “Unidentified woman, 24, facing lashes after apparently pleading guilty to joining protests and consorting with foreigners”
Communist China: Laogai Research Foundation New Report on Forced Labor
From the Laogai Research Foundation Website and Press Release
LRF Releases Report on Laogai Enterprise Advertisements
Today, Laogai Research Foundation released its latest report: “Not for Sale: Advertising Forced Labor Products for Illegal Export.” This current report expands on LRF’s previous works, Laogai Handbook: 2007-2008 and “Laogai Forced Labor Camps Listed in Dun & Bradstreet Databases.” Our Laogai Handbook lists all known Laogai camps in China and the “Laogai Forced Labor Camps Listed in Dun & Bradstreet Databases” report details 314 entries for Laogai enterprises in the international business database Dun and Bradstreet. Our key findings in this current report include:
• Over 100 Laogai enterprises are advertising or are listed in English on the Internet, suggesting the intent to export Laogai products to international markets, including the U.S.
• In many cases, Laogai enterprises are actively requesting to be listed on international trade sites
• Several of the listing sites translate enterprise entries into multiple European languages
• The Chinese government actively promotes the trade of Laogai products, illegal under Chinese export regulations, through listings on China Commodity Net, a Chinese government sponsored website
(Click the report cover on the right to download the whole report (PDF))
Read the latest on the report launch from Deutsche Presse Agentur: “China is still marketing for export products made by forced labour in prisons, nearly 20 years after such exports were first exposed, the US-based Laogai Research Foundation said on Thursday. A survey by the foundation found 120 English-language online advertisements marketing enterprises with known connections to China’s penal system.”(Read more)
Communist Totalitarian North Korea to Release Robert Park – Report
AP news reports on Korean Central News Agency report that the Communist North Korean government has decided to release Christian and human rights activist Robert Park. The KCNA has stated that the Communist totalitarian North Korean government “decided to leniently forgive and release him, taking his admission and sincere repentance of his wrong doings into consideration.”
See also:
— North Korea Communists Fear Balloons with Human Rights Leaflets; Threaten Retaliation
