(Afghanistan) New UN report takes firm stand on women’s rights in Afghanistan
— “The ‘Silence is Violence’ report documents the failure of state institutions to protect women from increasing violence in public spaces.”
Author: R.E.A.L.
Sweden: “Honor Killing” Suspected in Balcony Fall Cases
— Malmo: Woman dies after balcony fall, honor-murder suspected
— “A 28 year old woman died after falling from her 3rd story apartment’s kitchen window Sunday evening. The woman, from Morocco, had come to Malmo (Sweden) a few days ago and moved in with her husband (32) from the Middle East. Police say that the couple were the only ones in the apartment at the time and suspect this was an honor-murder.”
— IPT News: “Balcony Falls — Accidents or Honor Killings?”
— “A Swedish police investigation into the death of a 28-year-old woman who fell off a third floor balcony is
trying to determine if it was an accident or an honor killing.”
— “The dead woman had only recently moved to Sweden from Morocco to join her husband, who was briefly arrested in the investigation. According to a report posted by the Islam in Europe blog, a Stockholm University researcher is studying a similar case involving a 16-year-old girl.”
UK: Pair jailed for web race crimes
(UK) Pair jailed for web race crimes
— “Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.”
— “Simon Sheppard, 51, of Selby in North Yorkshire, received four years and 10 months, and Stephen Whittle, 42, of Preston, two years and four months.”
— “The men printed leaflets and controlled US websites featuring racist material.”
— “The investigation into Sheppard began when a complaint about a leaflet, called ‘Tales of the Holohoax’, was reported to police in 2004 after it was pushed through the door of a synagogue in Blackpool.”
See also UK: The neo-Nazi ‘asylum seekers’
Pennsylvania investigates alleged racial discrimination at country club pool
Australia: Ku Klux Klan states “We have infiltrated party”
China raises death toll from Xinjiang riot to 184
China raises death toll from Xinjiang riot to 184
— another report
(China) London Times: “Han Chinese emerge as the main victims as Urumqi riots death toll rises”
— “State media said that 137 Han Chinese and 46 minority Uighurs were killed when an Uighur mob took to the streets on Sunday, burning cars and buses, smashing shops and provoking tit-for-tat reprisals in what the Government says was the worst ethnic violence in decades”e6684928.ece
China shuts down mosques in riot city
(China) Muslim Tarek Fatah on Violence/Riots in China and Inconsistency
Chicago: Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir has New Meeting Venue in Oak Lawn, IL
Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir has New Meeting Venue in Oak Lawn, IL
— video: “Khilafah Conference USA 2009: Hizb ut Tahrir America **NEW VENUE CONFIRMED**”
— “www.khilafahconference2009.com Date & Venue: Sunday, July 19th 2009 11AM – 5 PM Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom 9333 South Cicero Avenue, Oak Lawn, IL 60453” — View Larger Map
— Charter Bank with public sidewalk across the street from Oak Lawn Hilton at 4775 West 94th Street
— July 7, 2009: Support for Hizb ut-Tahrir America May Be Surprising — by Madeleine Gruen
— June 18, 2009: Hizb ut-Tahrir America Enters Public Stage
— Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islam’s Political Insurgency, by Zeyno Baran
— Hizb-ut-Tahrir’s Activities in the United States — by Madeleine Gruen
—- “Its membership has swelled, putting on track its objective of persuading the global ummah that the establishment of a caliphate”
Saudi revelers get jail, 700 lashes for ‘immoral’ party
Saudi revelers get 700 lashes for ‘immoral’ party
— DPA reports: “A Saudi judge sentenced seven young men and four women to up to 700 lashes and jail terms ranging up to 10 months for attending an ‘immoral’ party, a Saudi newspaper reported”
— “The 11 revelers, including two Iraqis and nine Saudis aged between 18 and 37, received sentences of between 400-700 lashes and between 4-10 months in prison, Saudi Arabia’s Al Watan newspaper said”
— “The group had been arrested in the northern Saudi district of Al Ha’il in late June on charges of drinking alcohol at a mixed-gender party.”
Iran report: “army of police and militiamen attack unarmed protesters”
(Iran) Tehran: army of police and militiamen attack unarmed protesters
— London Times reports: “‘The security presence was massive. It was like a military occupation,’ one witness told The Times. ‘They were clubbing the hell out of people.'”
North Korea: AP reports US reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee not yet in North Korean prison labor camp
(North Korea) Report: 2 US journalists in North Korea guest house
— AP reports: “North Korea has delayed sending two convicted U.S. journalists to a prison labor camp, in a possible attempt to seek talks with Washington on their release, a scholar who visited the North said in an interview published Friday.”