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Indonesia: Forum aims to end violence against women – Catholic nuns lead program
— UCAN: “Hundreds of cases of violence against women and children have been resolved thanks to a forum established by nuns 10 years ago in East Nusa Tenggara province.”
Iraq: The killing of a Christian businessman in Kirkuk rekindles fear among Christians
— Asia News reports that: “Hani Salim Wadi owned a mobile phone store in downtown. He was 34, married with a daughter. Local eyewitnesses say that he was shot to death in a ‘targeted killing’. The local Christian community now fears a new wave of violence.”
Communist China’s Information Office of the State Council continues to defend censorship of the Internet, justifying it as “protection,” where the “Chinese government plays the leading role in Internet administration.”
In the latest report by that government, it states that the Communist Chinese laws prohibit dissemination of “contents subverting state power, undermining national unity, infringing upon national honor and interests, inciting ethnic hatred and secession”
It also indicates that government control of the Internet is also an “indispensable requirement for protecting state security and the public interest,” and indicates that its policies for “secure information flow” require that “no organization or individual” is allowed to spread information “subverting state power and jeopardizing national unification; damaging state honor and interests…”
The Communist Chinese government also requires Internet providers to ensure “Internet security management systems and utilize technical measures to prevent the transmission of all types of illegal information.”
As to international concern over the Communist Chinese government’s Internet censorship, it states that “Concerns about Internet security of different countries should be fully respected. We should seek common ground and reserve differences, promote development through exchanges, and jointly protect international Internet security.”
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our universal human rights of equality and liberty for all people, including our rights to freedom of expression. We urge those who seek to deny such universal human rights to understand that when they deny such rights for some people, they attack such unqualified universal human rights for all people.
— R.E.A.L. reports on Totalitarianism
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Bloomberg: China Spells Out Internet Restrictions After Google’s Exit
V3.co.uk: China defends internet censorship
Media reports indicate that 600 died in Darfur, Sudan in May 2010, and also reported that humanitarian operations were being hampered by “bandits and kidnapping.”
— Voice of America reports: “Peacekeepers: Darfur Clashes Killed Nearly 600 in May”
— “International peacekeepers say fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region killed nearly 600 people during May, the largest monthly death toll in more than two years.”
— “Officials with the U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur say the death toll was the highest recorded since peacekeepers were deployed in January 2008.”
— … “The United Nations says the fighting and related violence has killed up to 300,000 people and displaced about 2.7 million others. Sudan puts the death toll at 10,000.”
— Montreal Gazette reports: “Darfur aid work hit – May death count soars, humanitarians stranded”
— “The May figures were about five times the average monthly death counts recorded in 2009 said Sudan expert Alex de Waal who highlighted the increase on his blog Making Sense of Sudan ( http://blogs.ssrc.org/sudan/).”
— “Aid workers who set up the world’s largest humanitarian operation in Darfur said their work was being hampered by the insecurity and an increase in bandit attacks and kidnappings.”
The Pakistan Daily Times reports on the murder of a Hindu businessman in Pakistan, stating:
“A renowned rice trader was gunned down on Tuesday, as he resisted the kidnapping of his son in Quetta on Tuesday. Victim Hamesh Kumar, along with his son Rajesh, was going home after closing his shop in Satellite Town when they were intercepted by unidentified armed men, wearing uniforms of the Balochistan Levies Force. They tried to kidnap Rajesh, which Hamesh resisted on which the assailants shot the rice trader and fled. He was taken to a nearby hospital but he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead by the doctors. Afterwards, a large number of Hindus along with local businessmen and shopkeepers organised a protest to condemn Hamesh’s killing and demanded the government arrest his killers as early as possible.”
June 8 Media Reports Associated with Gaza Ships
Hamas prevents flotilla aid from entering Gaza
‘Iranian ships won’t reach Gaza’
Israel Gov’t disturbed by Reuters’ cropping of raid photos
Reuters claims removal of knife from hands in cropped photos was “inadvertantly cropped”
— Reuters handbook on journalism: “No additions or deletions to the subject matter of the original image. (thus changing the original content and journalistic integrity of an image)”
Israeli Navy officers call on Netanyahu, Barak to establish probe into raid