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Iran: Parents of jailed U.S. journalist meet her in Tehran prison By: RFE, April 6, 2009 The father of a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says he was able to meet his daughter in Tehran today and that she is feeling better than he expected. Reza Saberi told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that his daughter, Roxana, who is a dual U.S. and Iranian citizen, is being held in a cell in Tehran's Evin prison with three other inmates. Read full article... Egyptian police stifle protests By: BBC News, April 6, 2009 Police in Egypt have been deployed in large numbers to prevent a national strike by pro-democracy activists. Police had orders to arrest anyone taking part, and a number of activists have been held in recent days. Protests appear to have been small, but about 100 MPs, out of 454, walked out of parliament as part of the protest. Read full article... Egypt: Is the Internet a weapon in mass revolution? By: RSF, April 6, 2009 Since 6 April 2008, many Egyptian Internet users have been tirelessly communicating a message that their society must change. Having grown up under the state of emergency law that prevents them from expressing themselves freely, they have also been the first in line for harassment from the authorities. More than 500 of them were arrested in 2008, because of the content of their online posts. Read full article... 25 arrested in Egypt as nationwide protest looms By: Nadia abou el Magd, The National, April 5, 2009 Police arrested 25 people yesterday ahead of a nationwide protest tomorrow as part of a move against the policies of President Hosni Mubarak. Organisers from the Sixth of April Youth have urged Egyptians to not go to work, to hang black banners from their balconies and protest at several locations around the country. They have asked people who have to go to work to wear black. Yesterday's protesters in Kafr el-Sheikh were demanding the release of two students, Sarah Rezk and Amina Taha, who were arrested last week for distributing leaflets calling for the strike. Read full article... Human rights group: Syrian court convicts 12 opposition activists By: Jerusalem Post, April 5, 2009 A Syrian human rights group says a court has sentenced 12 activists - including a woman and five Kurds - to prison after convicting them of anti-government activities. The National Organization for Human Rights in Syria says in a statement that the 12 were convicted by the State Security Court on Sunday. It says one of the activists, Jamal Abdul-Wahab, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "contacting the enemy" - a reference to Israel. The groups says the others were given prison sentences between five and eight years. Read full article... Call for Egypt Bahai attack probe By: BBC News, April 3, 2009 Human rights groups in Egypt are calling for an investigation into alleged assaults against followers of the minority Bahai religion. Dozens of people gathered in a village in southern Egypt on Saturday chanting that Bahais were the enemies of God, six human rights groups report. Read full article... Elections in Algeria: Bouteflika wins, legitimacy loses By: Dana Moss, The Washington Institute, April 3, 2009 On April 9, Algerians go to the polls to elect a head of state. A constitutional amendment engineered by two-term President Abdulaziz Bouteflika in November 2008 allows the septuagenarian to vie for a third term. Running with no credible opponents -- and unopposed by the military and security services (DRS) -- there is little doubt he will be reelected. Read full article... Iran: Dozens of workers are expelled from Shaho Yarn Mill By: IHRV, April 2, 2009 Dozens of workers in Shaho Yarn Mill in the city of Sanandaj were expelled from their jobs after holding a protest against the policies of their manager. This morning, the manager of the Shaho mill announced new policies for benefit payments to twenty-two workers, including retirement and insurance benefits. The announcement led to a protest by workers. Read full article... Iran: Praised globally, detained locally By: Elahe Amani, Campaign 4 Equality, March 31, 2009 On the brink of the Persian New Year, the first day of Spring, Iranian women activists heard some encouraging news. The illustrious honoree at the Feminist Majority Foundation's Fifth Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Global Women's Rights is the Campaign for One Million Signature Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws in Iran. The Change for Equality Website reported that the One Million Signatures Campaign also known as the Campaign for Equality is the recipient of the award "in special recognition of their innovating work to demand an end to discriminatory laws against women in Iran." On March 26th, only a few days later, 12 women's rights activists were detained in Tehran, 10 of them are members of this Campaign. Four of those detained are young men. Read full article...  Tunisia: Dismissed student activists on hunger strike for the right to education By: Lina Ben Mhenni, Global Voices, March 27, 2009 A total of 158 Tunisians and their friends from around the world went on hunger strike for a day today (March 26) in solidarity with five students who have been on hunger strike since February 11 in Tunisia. The initiative has been orchestrated on a Facebook group [Fr] as a symbolic form of support to the students, who are members of Tunisian Students' Union (UGET), and who have been suspended from university for their activism on campus. Read full article... Palestinian territories: Non-cooperation can bring a revolution to the Holy Land By: Marc Gopin, Common Ground News Service, March 26, 2009 It is time for a mass movement of nonviolent non-cooperation and resistance amongst Palestinians-because everything else has failed. I have hopes that the Obama Administration will be the best yet in moving the parties toward resolution, but in my heart I have always felt that there is one path to peace that has never been adopted, and that is the path of nonviolent non-cooperation - but with love - the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Read full article... Share this article: 
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