Hong Kong: Zhao’s Chinese Memoirs Go on Sale in Hong Kong
— “The Chinese version of former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang’s explosive memoirs go on sale in Hong Kong bookstores to great demand on Friday, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown”
— Chinese leader condemns Tiananmen massacre from beyond the grave – Zhao Ziyang
— Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
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Sudan: Women and Other Slaves Freed
(Sudan) Christian Solidarity International (CSI): 232 Sudanese Slaves Liberated
— “The liberated slaves reported having been subjected to beatings, death threats, rape, female genital mutilation, forced conversion to Islam, racial and religious insults and work without pay. Some slaves reported witnessing the execution of fellow captives.”
— “Among the interviewed slaves were:”
—- “Achan Mawien Guat – pregnant 17 year-old: Enslaved, Raped, Circumcised, and Islamized.”
—- “Mary Atak Geng Baak – 18 year-old Christian: Enslaved, Islamized, Sexually Abused, Terrorized, and Economically Exploited.”
Chinese Authorities Secretly Planning to Sentence Alimujiang Yimiti to Re-education Through Labor
(Communist China) Chinese Authorities Secretly Planning to Sentence Alimujiang Yimiti to Re-education Through Labor
— China Aid reports: “On May 21, government sources told the mother of imprisoned Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti that the Kashi Public Security Bureau (PSB) is secretly planning to sentence her son to three years of re-education through labor.”
— “Contact the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. to urge them to release Alimujiang Yimiti:”
Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong
3505 International Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: (202) 495-2000
Fax: (202) 495-2190
Iraq: Radical Iraq cleric orders ‘depraved’ homosexuality to be eradicated
Tiananmen Leaders Invite International Community to Join in a Solemn Assembly
(Communist China/U.S.) Tiananmen Leaders Invite International Community to Join in a Solemn Assembly
— China Aid reports: “The solemn assembly will be held in Washington, DC on June 4, 2009 at the National Presbyterian Church from 7-9 p.m.”
— “Media Contact: Katherine Cason (267) 210-8278 or Katherine@ChinaAid.org, Washington, D.C. Contact: Jenny McCloy (202) 213-0506 or Jenny@ChinaAid.org, Website: www.ChinaAid.org and www.MonitorChina.org, Fax: (432) 686-8355″
China Aid: Help Free Gao Zhisheng – Sign Petition for His Release
China Aid: Help Free Gao Zhisheng – Sign Petition for His Release
— “Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, disappeared February 4, and was last seen being taken away by a dozen police officers. Gao Zhisheng has been repeatedly kidnapped, arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Chinese authorities, because he has defended the persecuted and has been an unyielding voice for justice in the Chinese courts.”
— Read Gao’s account of 50 days of torture in 2007
— Read Gao Zhisheng’s letter to the U.S. Congress in 2007
— Read Geng He’s open letter to the U.S. Congress
— Read Senator Dorgan’s speech from the Senate floor
Pakistan: Extremist theaten woman with “blasphemy” charge
(Pakistan) Punjab’s Mustafabad: Islamic Radicals Storm ‘Blasphemy’ Hearing
— ‘Blasphemy’ case against Munir Masih and his wife Ruqiya Bibi
— “Radical Pakistani Muslims in a town outside of Lahore this month overran
a courtroom in hopes of swaying a judge in a ‘blasphemy’ case against a
Christian couple, and a member of the prosecution later threatened to kill the wife”
— “The couple had granted a Muslim neighbor’s request to store some of his
possessions in their home, including a Quran.”
— “The Islamic clergymen storming into the courtroom claimed that no non-Muslims had the right to keep a Quran in their home”
— “After the bail hearing, a member of the prosecution team approached Bibi while she was outside the courtroom waiting to testify and threatened to kill her. ‘Ruqiya was waiting outside the court for her turn,’ Gull said, ‘and one man came and said, ”Whatever the decision, we will kill you.””
“Saudi Mufti: Women’s Sports Are Against the Will of Allah”
(Saudi Arabia) Debate in Saudi Arabia over Women’s Sports
— “Saudi Mufti: Women’s Sports Are Against the Will of Allah”
Communist China: Publisher defends Zhao memoir after Beijing attack
(Communist China) Publisher defends Zhao memoir after Beijing attack
— “The publisher of a memoir by deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang defended the book following an attack by Beijing-backed media that made a rare mention of the 1989 democracy protest”
— “Bao Pu, the publisher of the Chinese version of the book and the son of a former top Zhao aide, said the ‘Prisoner of the State’ was a crucial effort to overturn Beijing’s official condemnation of the protests.”
— “His comments came after several Beijing-backed newspapers published in Hong Kong said in a lengthy commentary that the memoirs — and western media who promoted them — were trying to foist democracy on China.”
— Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang