Author: R.E.A.L.

California: Not guilty pleas in group attack of Latino man

California: Not guilty pleas in group attack of Latino man
— Orange County Register reports:

— “‘White Power’-tatooed people face attempted murder, hate charges”
— “Four people authorities describe as white supremacists pleaded not guilty at an Orange County Superior Court today to attempted murder after prosecutors and police say the group attacked a Latino man in Huntington Beach”
— “Erin Brooks, 24, Brian Hanson, 26, Michael Powell, 21, and Bret Hicks, 30, also pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault with hate crime enhancements, which could lead to 20 years in prison each. The four did not comment during today’s hearing and were represented by private attorneys.”
— “The four are being identified as white supremacists based on their tattoos, which say “Skinhead,” “White Pride” and “Hate” and have references to “Heil Hitler” and a Nazi swastika, prosecutors and court documents said.”

Communist China: Shanghai Petitioner Poisoned by Authorities, Husband Says

“Shanghai Petitioner Poisoned by Authorities, Husband Says”
— Epoch Times reports on Ms. Zhou Minzhu:
— “Both Mr. Tang and Ms. Zhou are members of the Chinese League of Victims, a Hong-Kong-registered society of people with grievances against the Chinese authorities.”
— “She was arrested shortly after returning and taken to Shanghai’s Huangpu District Detention Centre, where she was told that if she didn’t withdraw from the Chinese League of Victims, she would be sent to a labor camp.”

Report: North Korea in ‘final phase’ of uranium enrichment

Telegraph: North Korea in ‘final phase’ of uranium enrichment
— “North Korea, which already has a handful of plutonium nuclear devices, had promised to begin enriching the uranium three months ago after UN Security imposed sanctions on Pyongyang following its second nuclear test in May.”
— “If successful, it would give North Korea a second way of making nuclear weapons”

Communist China: Google China chief quits suddenly after months of clashes with censors

Google China chief quits suddenly after months of clashes with censors
— Telegraph reports:
— “The head of Google in China, Kaifu Lee, has quit the company abruptly after several turbulent months of clashes with the Chinese government.”
— “‘My next move is to create a platform for young Chinese. I want to be actively involved in the work and to have full control of it,’ he wrote, on his popular blog.”

Florida: Fathima Rifqa Bary Case – Judge keeps girl in Florida, orders mediation

— MyFOXOrlandao: “Judge seals police report for runaway”
— “The judge signed the order Thursday sealing the report for at least ten days until lawyers for 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, her parents and child welfare officials can read it. The hearing was to determine whether the teen should return to Ohio or stay in Florida.”
— “The teen ran away to Florida in July, saying she feared being killed for changing religions.”
— “The judge said two weeks ago that he would postpone deciding whether Bary should return to Ohio until after the investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was completed.”

— Orlando Sentinel: “After sealing findings of a state investigation into Fathima Rifqa Bary, Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson on Thursday decided to keep the 17-year-old girl in Florida while putting the case into mediation”

— CNN: “Muslim teen fears for life after changing religion”

UK: Muslim Woman Writes of Parental Abuse, Threats to Kill Her Over “Western Lifestyle”

Daily Mail: “My mother hired a hitman to kill me: The shocking story of a Muslim woman whose parents disapproved of her Western lifestyle”
— report from Sofia Hayat
— “Sofia Hayat was imprisoned and her mother threatened to kill her because she led a Western lifestyle”
— Sofia Hayat: “The text message forwarded to me from my younger sister Saira was concise and chilling: ‘Mum’s sent a hit man to kill you,’ it read. ‘Be careful.’ As I read those words, my first instinct wasn’t fear or even shock, but simply survival.”
— Sofia Hayat: “I’d become accustomed to behaviour like this from both my parents – behaviour that anyone else would find abhorrent – and I was emotionally numb to their threats. But I also knew that my sister’s warning was deadly serious and my life was in real danger. I’d been in hiding for several weeks when I received the text. I was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1974 and brought up there in a devout Muslim family with three sisters and two brothers.”