“Egyptian Security Refuses to Return Abducted Christian Coptic Girl”
AINA reports:
— “Two incidents of abduction of Coptic girls to force them to convert to Islam took place within one week in Upper Egypt. In both cases the Egyptian security predictably played a key role in the outcome of the cases.”
— “Rania Asaad was returned to her family, while Irene Labib is still missing, in spite of pleas from human rights organizations to the security authorities to end this Coptic family’s misfortune.”
— “Irene Hanna Labib, 20-years old, disappeared on 7/1/2009 from Sahel Tahta, Sohag Governorate, 500 km south of Cairo.”
— “The family of 21-year old pharmacy student Rania Tawfik Asaad from Samalut, Minya Governorate, were successful in getting back their daughter, one week she disappeared on 6/27/2009; she was held by her abductor in the small village Of Taha Bosh, Nasser district, in the Beni Suef Governorate.”
— “Rania was approached by Muslim army officer Mohamed Sayed Farag, 29 years old, who posed as a Copt called Mina who was living in Cairo. After a brief courtship, the army officer proposed to her and asked her to meet his elderly mother. According to Ayman Eid of Free Copts advocacy Rania knew the true identity of her abductor only when she arrived at a secluded house in Beni Suef.”
— “Mohamed was also discovered to be a member of the Islamic Welfare Association, which is affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood. He asked Rania to convert to Islam and marry him, but she refused. After a great ordeal her family discovered her whereabouts and learnt that she was forced to convert to Islam by the Association and married Captain Mohamed two days after her abduction.”
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Atlanta: “Keeping quiet is coward’s way out”
Atlanta: “Keeping quiet is coward’s way out”
— AJC’s Rick Diguette : “A few months ago one of my neighbors mentioned that the Ku Klux Klan had done a lot of good ‘back in the day.'”
— “My silence and yours, if you’re guilty and will admit it, can only help prolong this country’s continued inability to address the issue of race.”
— “if you still stand by and say nothing when a friend or neighbor uses a racial slur — and no, it isn’t only white folks who use them — or praises an organization like the Ku Klux Klan, then you’ve still got some work to do”
— “Silence is golden, but only when we need to get some sleep. Now’s the time to wake up.”
DC: 100,000 Protest Detention Chinese Christian Lawyer
100,000 Protest Detention Chinese Christian Lawyer
— “A petition calling for the release of a prominent Christian human rights lawyer, which was signed by some 100,000 people around the world, has been delivered to the Chinese embassy in Washington and the U.S. State Department, organizers said Friday, July 17.”
— “‘The signatures represent concerned citizens in the U.S. and around the world who are asking for the immediate release of Gao Zhisheng, a Christian human rights attorney who was kidnapped by Chinese officials on February 4,’ said advocacy group China Aid Association (CAA).”
— China Aid Association: Gao Zhisheng Petition Delivered to Chinese Embassy, U.S. State Department and CECC
— “Gao Zhisheng Petition Delivered; Chinese Embassy Says ‘Take it away!'”
Pittsburgh Foundation Funded Hate Groups
Pittsburgh Foundation Funded Hate Groups
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Donor to G-20 welcome board a past supporter of hate groups”
Jordan: “Honor Killing” of Married Woman by Brother, Stabbed 20 Times, Head Crushed
— Jordan Times reports: “Twenty-year-old kills sister over ‘immoral behaviour'”
— “A 20-year-old Jordanian stabbed his married sister and smashed her head with a rock after accusing her of ‘immoral behaviour'”
Communist China: China’s Human Rights Lawyers Face Major Obstacles
(Communist China) China’s Human Rights Lawyers Face Major Obstacles
— “Chinese regime’s new weapon: Denial of license to practice law”
Communist China: The Persecution of Falun Gong and How it Began
Russia – Ingushetia: Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, found murdered — critic of Extremist Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov
BBC reports:
— “A prominent Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, has been found dead in the North Caucasus.”
— “She was bundled into a van and abducted as she left her home in Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a colleague said. Her body was found in Ingushetia.”
BBC also reports:
— “Award-winning Russian human rights campaigner Natalia Estemirova, who has been found shot dead in the North Caucasus, documented hundreds of cases of abuse in Chechnya.”
— “Her work for the Russian human rights group Memorial latterly focused on alleged human rights violations by government-backed militias.”
New York Times reports:
— “In recent years, Ms. Estemirova had focused on kidnappings that she believed were carried out under the authority of the Chechen president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, who has enjoyed unwavering public support from the Kremlin.”
— “Her work met with threats and denunciations from Chechen authorities. In March of 2008, after Ms. Estemirova criticized a new law requiring women in Chechnya to wear head scarves, Mr. Kadyrov summoned her to a personal meeting and threatened her, an experience so frightening that she went abroad for several months, said Tatyana Kasatkina, deputy director of the Rissian human rights group Memorial, where Ms. Estemirova had worked since 1999. Friends tried to convince Ms. Estemirova to stay away, but she felt compelled to return.”
Free Internet Press reports:
— “Ms. Estemirova worked for years helping families uncover details about kidnapped relatives. She was the recipient of several international awards, and in 2007 was the first to win the Anna Politkovskaya Award, named for the Russian investigative journalist, who also worked to uncover abuses in Chechnya before she was shot to death in October 2006.”
— “Ms. Estemirova’s work often ran afoul of the Chechen government, led by the Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, whom human rights groups have accused of personally torturing kidnap victims.”
— Reuters: Group blames Chechen leader for activist’s murder
— Global Post: “Did Chechnya’s leader just kill this woman?”
March 1, 2009 – Russia: Chechen President defends extremist “honor killings” – says women deserve to die
— “Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had ‘loose morals’ and were rightfully shot by male relatives in honor killings. ‘If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed,’ Kadyrov told journalists in the capital of this Russian republic.”
UK: White supremacist Neo-Nazi guilty of bomb plot – Neil Lewington — Ku Klux Klan, Combat 18 Nazi material found
(UK) White supremacist guilty of bomb plot – Neil Lewington
— Neo-Nazi convicted of terror plan
— “Man had turned parents’ home into bomb factory”
— “The search also found the Waffen SS UK members’ handbook, containing his blueprint for a neo-Nazi terror group, and notebooks with details of electronics and chemical mixtures and a book called Counter Bomb. His mobile phone contained hate material from a violent neo-Nazi group called Combat 18 and other material from the Ku Klux Klan was also found.”
— British white supremacist guilty of bomb plot
Canada: “Neo-Nazi hate, courtesy of the CHRC” – Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canada: “Neo-Nazi hate, courtesy of the CHRC” – Canadian Human Rights Commission
— National Post’s Ezra Levant reports: “In her July 11 letter to the National Post, Lynch denies that CHRC staff hacked into the Internet account of a private citizen to cover their tracks as they logged into their memberships in neo-Nazi websites. Lynch says both the Privacy Commissioner and the RCMP ‘found no evidence to support this allegation.'”
— Levant states: “But that’s not true. The Privacy Commissioner’s staff did not investigate the hacking — that is not within their jurisdiction.”
— Levant states: “In fact, CHRC employees have been active members of neo-Nazi organizations for years, and have published countless anti-Semitic, anti-gay and anti-black comments online. CHRC employees have admitted to this under oath. On the same day Monfette testified about the hacking, CHRC investigator Dean Steacy testified there were no guidelines about what CHRC staff could do using their online Nazi memberships.”
— Levant states: “Steacy, for example, used his Nazi membership to write encouraging words to a racist group called B. C. White Pride. He praised them, told them their racist posters were ‘great’ and promised to distribute their literature. Your tax dollars at work.”
— Levant states: “Other CHRC investigators went further. One praised Nazi leaders ( ‘I still say [Adrien] Arcand is our man!’); called for Canadian police to discriminate against blacks ( ‘exactly when will white cops understand that they should stand by THEIR race?!’); and trashed a Jewish youth group ( ‘if people spent the time building fellow WNs [White Nationalists] up rather than tearing them down we’d be dangerous. Unless your goal is to tear people down in which case go join Hillel or something.’)”