(Saudi Arabia) Fifty-year-old Saudi divorces child bride
— “A 50-year-old Saudi man has agreed to divorce his nine-year-old bride, after the marriage drew international criticism.”
— AP: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
(Afghanistan) New ‘poisoning’ hits 98 Afghan schoolgirls
(Afghanistan) New ‘poisoning’ hits 98 Afghan schoolgirls
— Taliban using poison gas on Afghan schoolgirls?
— 84 Afghan girls hospitalized in apparent poisoning
— “At least 84 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said”
— AP describes suspects not as extremists, but as “conservative extremist groups”
Afghani kills daughter, boyfriend
Afghani kills daughter, boyfriend
— “The motive for the murders was likely to protect family ‘honour’. Similar killings are common in rural Afghanistan but rarely reported”
Afghan clerics plan protests over changes to marital rape law
Afghan clerics plan protests over changes to marital rape law
— “Supporters of the Afghan law which critics claim legalises marital rape and restricts the rights of women say they will oppose amending the legislation significantly.”
— Another link
Afghan women campaigners risk death to show world their plight
(Communist China) Chinese leader condemns Tiananmen massacre from beyond the grave – Zhao Ziyang
(Communist China) Chinese leader condemns Tiananmen massacre from beyond the grave
— “Zhao Ziyang, the former Communist Party leader, has spoken from beyond the grave to break two decades of official silence on the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 with a wide-ranging attack on the Chinese political system”
— “He goes on to call for the introduction of democracy in China to rectify the country’s social problems.”
— Extract: “Prisoner of the State: The secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang”
— Book on Amazon: Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang (Hardcover)
(Communist China) Leading Chinese dissident claims freedom of speech worse than before Olympics
(Communist China) Leading Chinese dissident claims freedom of speech worse than before Olympics
— “He Weifang, a celebrated law professor and lead signatory to last year’s Charter 08 petition calling for democratic reforms in China, said the ruling Communist Party was currently engaged in a fresh wave of repressive internet and media censorship.”
(Communist China) Tiananmen dissident arrested in China – Zhou Yongjun
(Communist China) Tiananmen dissident arrested in China
— “Zhou Yongjun, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has been arrested in China on fraud charges ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the pro-democracy movement”
— Additional report
(Communist China) East is Red is the siren song of China’s new generation
(Communist China) East is Red is the siren song of China’s new generation
— “Despite being responsible for the deaths of up to 70 million Chinese, the ‘Great Helmsman’, retains considerable public affection in China as a charismatic leader”