Egypt: Thousands of Christians Gather to Pray for Equality in Egypt
— “Around 7,000 Coptic Christians gathered at the Father Kyrillos church on the outskirts of Cairo to pray for an end to discrimination during the celebration of the Egyptian Coptic New Year this weekend.”
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A Book Burner for UNESCO? — regarding Egypt’s Farouk Hosni
A Book Burner for UNESCO? — regarding Egypt’s Farouk Hosni
— Washington Post: “The most strenuous objections to Hosni’s bid have been charges of anti-Semitism tied to comments he made in May 2008 that he would “burn Israeli books” himself if he found any in Egyptian libraries.”
Egypt: AINA report on Church Firebombing
Chechnya’s Kadyrov Wins Right to Open Offices in Europe
Chechnya Wins Right to Open Offices in Europe
— Moscow Times reports: “Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov raised questions about his foreign policy ambitions earlier in the week when he announced that his administration had received permission from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to open representative offices in European countries”
September 18 – NYC – China Support Network to Host Press Conference Calling for Rescue of Tiananmen Square Student Leader Zhou Yongjun
China Support Network (CSN) Announces:
“CSN to host RAZY press conference”
— CSN web site
— CSN blog
— See also Media alerted about upcoming news conference
China Support Network reports:
“In responding to the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the China Support Network and the Chinese dissident community are rightly outraged by the capture, mistreatment, arrest, and upcoming trial for Zhou Yongjun, who in 1989 was the first Tiananmen Square student leader elected to chair the Autonomous Students Federation of Beijing Universities. The Federation was the occupying force in Tiananmen Square.”
“The Chinese government plans to hold a trial for Zhou, who lives in the United States where he has two U.S. citizen children, and who attempted a return to China in September, 2008. As he attempted to cross from Macao into Hong Kong with someone else’s passport, Hong Kong immigration authorities decided that he should go to Mainland China in the custody of authorities. They transferred him to Mainland authorities who held him in Shenzhen before moving him to his home province of Sichuan and arresting him with trumped up charges.”
“There is absolutely no merit to the trumped up case against Zhou, and CSN has already described this case as Tiananmen Square persecution carried forward into the present day. On Friday, September 18, 2009, CSN will host a Manhattan press conference with Chinese legal experts to detail the case and to announce next steps which are being undertaken by RAZY. RAZY is an acronym for the ad-hoc Rescue Alliance for Zhou Yongjun.”
“The press conference will run from 12:00 to 2:00pm on Friday the 18th, at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. Presenters will include attorney Li Jinjin, who is also well known from the Tiananmen Square student leadership; attorney Ning Ye; John Kusumi for the China Support Network; and Yuewei Zhang for the family members of Zhou Yongjun.”
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September 2, 2009 – CSN: Zhou Yongjun’s case reviewed by John Kusumi
May 17, 2009 – Daily Telegraph: Tiananmen dissident arrested in China — Zhou Yongjun
May 13, 2009 – Asia News: Zhou Yongjun, who was in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, is arrested
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Human Rights Watch suspends researcher who collected Nazi memorabilia — Marc Garlasco
Nigeria: Bishops say Nigeria’s inaction led to deaths during Islamic uprising
Nigeria: Bishops say Nigeria’s inaction led to deaths during Islamic uprising
— “The Boko Haram sect opposes Western education and insists on the imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law. The uprising began in late July after the arrest of some of the sect’s members.”
Malaysia sentences another to caning under Shariah law for drinking alcohol
Malaysia sentences another to caning under Shariah law for drinking alcohol
— Nazarudin Kamaruddin
— Amnesty International reports on Malaysia’s “Shariah law”
— “Amnesty International has also called for the government to repeal all laws providing for caning”
— In Malay-Muslim heartland, caning wins support
— Reuters: “The end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan this weekend could see Islamic authorities in Malaysia carry out the country’s first caning sentence on a woman, a punishment that is fast gaining support.”
— “Although the penalty has been condemned by rights groups and is being reviewed by an Islamic appeal court, it is endorsed by conservative Muslims whose influence is on the rise in this multi-racial, Southeast Asian country of 27 million people”
Virginia: Neo-Nazi William White to stay in jail for now, judge orders psychiatric hearing
Virginia: Neo-Nazi William White to stay in jail for now, judge orders psychiatric hearing
— WDBJ7 reports: “A federal judge in Roanoke wants a local psychiatrist to examine White before he decides whether White can be released on bond”
— “White is charged with threatening and intimidating people by way of the internet”
Seattle synagogues defaced with swastikas
Seattle synagogues defaced with swastikas
— JTA reports:
— “Unknown vandals painted red swastikas on two Seattle-area synagogues.”
— “The swastikas and the phrase ‘4th Riech’ (sic) were painted late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, police and synagogue members told the Seattle Times.”
— “The word Nazi and at least eight other swastikas also were painted on a sidewalk and driveway in the area, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath member Sarah Rivkin told the newspaper.”
— “Congregants at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation were attending Selichot services during the incident.”
— Swastikas deface 2 synagogues in Seattle
— Swastika graffiti should not be treated lightly