Communist China: Google Stops Censoring Results

— Google: “today we stopped censoring our search services — Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn”

Google Blog’s Official Announcement to re-route Google.cn users to uncensored Google.hk

Google Stops Censoring Results, Making Block by China Likely
— Bloomberg reports:
— “Google Inc., following through on a pledge to stop censoring search results in China, began serving mainland Chinese users via its unfiltered Hong Kong site, a move that could prompt the government to block the service.”
— “The company began redirecting traffic from its China Web page, Google.cn, to Hong Kong, a part of the country that isn’t subject to censorship laws. The move, which escalates a two- month dispute with the government over censorship, was ‘totally wrong,’ the official Xinhua news agency said.”
— “By relying on Hong Kong, Google is trying to find a way to fight censorship laws while still keeping a presence in mainland China. The approach may not work for long because the government is probably going to block the site, called Google.com.hk, just as it has before with the main Google.com page, said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc. in San Francisco.”
— “‘It’s very likely that Google.com.hk will be blocked at least as aggressively as Google.com was, and more likely, probably more aggressively,’ he said.”
— “The company challenged the government of the world’s most populous country in January by threatening to allow all search results to be shown on its China Web site, including references to Tibet and the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Google has about 600 employees in the country. Google.cn included the search engine, Google News and Google Images.”

Communist China - Flowers laid at the entrance to Google's China headquarters in Beijing (Wall Street Journal - Photo by Josh Chin)
Communist China - Flowers laid at the entrance to Google's China headquarters in Beijing (Wall Street Journal - Photo by Josh Chin)

Additional Media Reports:

Google China: Search engine’s stand against censorship welcomed by campaigners

Text of Chinese official comments on Google

China says Google wrong to stop censoring: report

Google stops censoring in China

Microsoft response to Google maneuvers in China

See also:

Communist China: Google may pull out of China by April

Communist China: Google appears to drop censorship in China

ChinaAid Urges Other American and Western Companies to Join Google Against Communist Censorship

Communist China: Google – “A New Approach to China” – may pull out after attacks on Human Rights computers

Petition Supporting Google Call to End Internet Censorship in China

Buffalo: County, town face suit in beheading of woman

Buffalo News reports on wrongful death lawsuit associated with the case of Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan beheaded his wife Aasiya Zubair Hassan, in what has been called an “honor killing,” in Buffalo, New York area.

— “Lawyers for the estate of Aasiya Zubair Hassan, the woman killed and beheaded in her cable television studio, have filed a notice of claim, indicating they intend to sue the Town of Orchard Park, Erie County and the Erie County Sheriff’s Department for failing to prevent her death in February of last year.”
— “Another wrongful death suit is under way against Hassan’s husband and the Bridges TV network that the couple founded in 2004 to raise the profile of moderate American Muslims.”

Aasiya Zubair Hassan - Suspected Victim of "Honor Killing" in Buffalo, NY
Aasiya Zubair Hassan - Suspected Victim of "Honor Killing" in Buffalo, NY

Los Angeles: Nigeria Women to Protest Killings – March 20

ANS reports on Los Angeles Nigerian women protesting against violence in Jos on March 7 and on March 17 – with an event scheduled on Saturday March 20

ANS reports:

Helen Bako, who comes from the Jos area and now works as a social worker in Southern California, is the founder of Nigerian Women Against Violence.

She told ANS that the protest against “the recent bloodshed in Jos and the surrounding areas,” will take place at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 20, 2010, at the the Gateway Sheraton, 6101 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, close to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) where representatives of the Nigerian government will be staying.

“Hundreds of women and children were brutally murdered by machetes and swords in Jos ten days ago,” Helen Bako told ANS. “Villagers continue to be attacked. Where was the Nigerian government? Where was the army? Where was the police? What are the facts?”

Smoke rises in Jos after latest round of violence
She added that Nigerian Women Against Violence calls on the international community and the United Nations to “hold the Government of Nigeria accountable to protect the lives of its citizens.”

She went on to say, “We believe the Nigerian Government has a responsibility to protect its children, its women, and its men, no matter what their religion. We call for an end of bloodshed in Nigeria no matter whose blood is shed.

“We call the Nigerian Government to invite an independent inquiry from the United Nations to establish what happened over the last several weeks in Jos. We want the world to know what happened. We don’t want it to happen again. We are Nigerian woman. We are against violence. We call on our government to protect us and to protect our children.”

Nigerian Women Against Violence is a grass-roots organization of women dedicated to uncovering violence in Nigeria and doing what we can to make it stop.

For more information, contact Helen Bako, Nigerian Women Against Violence. Telephone: (714) 673-7770, FAX: (714) 734-8305
E-mail: bakohe@aol.com

Helen Bako, Nigerian Women Against Violence (Photo: ANS)
Helen Bako, Nigerian Women Against Violence (Photo: ANS)

Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader gets out of jury duty

Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader gets out of jury duty
— The South Bend Tribune reports on Ku Klux Klan leader Railton Loy (aka Ray Larsen) couldn’t be fair on a jury unless “the defendant was white,” promised to wear KKK robe to court
— Railton Loy is the “Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Osceola”

Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader Railton Loy (Tribune photo)
Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader Railton Loy (Tribune photo)

— Spring 2002 – SPLC: “In Indiana, a Klan group’s reputation goes from bad to worse”

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Egyptian Police Arrest 13 Copts, Victims of Attack on March 12

Asia News reports:
— “Egyptian security forces have arrested 13 Coptic Christians – including four minors, subsequently released – victims of the attack on 12 March. They are being charged with illegal religious assembly, damage to public property, arson and assault. About a dozen Muslims, from a total of 2000 perpetrators, have been detained over the assault against 400 Coptic faithful at the Church of St. Michael in Mersa Matrouh in the north-west of Egypt.”
— “The violence was sparked by extremists, incited by the local Imam, Mohamad Khamis Khamis, during Friday prayers. From the microphones of the mosque of Al-Ansar, located near the church of Saint Micheal, near the building that housed the Copts, the Islamist leader urged the faithful to ‘holy war’ against the Christian place of worship, ordering its destruction, and calling for the expulsion of the ‘infidels.'”
— “The crowd was trapped inside the church and the Copts attacked them, raiding the homes before setting them on fire. The raid resulted in the wounding of 23 Christians, including two seriously, so who have been sent to Victoria Hospital in Alexandria, 200 km away. Sources of the local church denounced the complete devastation of 18 houses, four shops and 18 cars (pictured). ‘These people are completely ruined,’ says the activist Wagih Yacoub.”

Image from Attack on Copts on March 12, 2010 (Photo: AsiaNews)
Image from Attack on Copts on March 12, 2010 (Photo: AsiaNews)