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Sunday, 21 June 2009 |
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AFRICA
Sudan gets new press law but restrictions remain
By: Washington Post, June 8, 2009
Sudan Monday passed an amended version of a media bill that sparked protests in Khartoum last month, but the new version failed to allay the fears of many Sudanese journalists. Dozens of Sudan's laws were to be overhauled under a 2005 north-south peace deal that called for the democratization of the country, but the new Journalism and Press Publications Bill 2009 is one of the few to have reached parliament.
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Libyan government nationalises reform media
By: Jamel Arfaoui, Magharebia, June 3, 2009
The Libyan government's decision to nationalise a number of private-owned media outlets a few weeks ago continues to stir reactions in Libya and abroad. The decision, some observers say, deals a blow to the country's attempts to reform.
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AMERICAS
 Oil companies 'should withdraw' as Peru 'faces its Tiananmen'
By: Survival International, June 8, 2009
Survival International today called on all oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon to suspend operations as the country comes to terms with the worst political violence since the Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s. The companies include Anglo-French Perenco, Argentina's PlusPetrol, Canada's Petrolifera, Spain's Repsol, Brazil's Petrobras and many others. Violent clashes on Friday between Amazon Indians blockading roads and rivers, and police and army units intent on breaking up the protests have left dozens of Indians, and at least 23 policemen, dead.
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Peru: Officers buried, Indian protests continue
By: Franklin Briceno, LA Times, June 8, 2009
President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sent to break up anti-development protests. While the blockades that had halted the flow of oil out of the jungle appeared mostly disbanded, and Indians went into hiding fearing arrest, native groups nevertheless seized a remote airport Sunday and refused to abandon a key jungle roadblock. Protesters said the police attack was unprovoked, and they couldn't be expected to stand by as officers mowed them down with gunfire.
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US: Jewish group organizes L.A. march against Darfur violence
By: Ari B. Bloomekatz, LA Times, June 8, 2009
Rabbi Ted Riter of Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks told throngs of demonstrators Sunday that it was important to rally against the deadly violence in Sudan because one day the marchers' grandchildren will ask: Where were you? "We . . . made a promise to our ancestors to never forget," Riter said, referring to a commitment by fellow Jews not to let atrocities such as the Holocaust go unchallenged.
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US: Alleged husband-wife Cuban spies arrested
By: Nedra Pickler, Comcast.net, June 6, 2009
For three decades, accused spies Walter Kendall Myers and his wife shuffled secrets to their Cuban contacts in such fear of being caught, authorities say, that he memorized top-secret documents rather than bring them into their home. Their downfall came simply and swiftly, lured by a stranger who offered Myers a cigar. Obama administration officials say Kendall Myers had access to highly sensitive material while working for the State Department's intelligence arm.
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Venezuela takes actions against critical TV station
By: Arthur Brice, CNN, June 5, 2009
The Venezuelan government has moved forcefully in the past two days against the only nationwide private TV broadcaster critical of President Hugo Chavez, staging a series of legal and police actions against the station and its owner. On Friday morning, Venezuelan officials arrived at the Globovision TV station to accuse the company of not paying about $2.3 million (5 million bolivares fuertes) in taxes for certain advertisements it aired in 2002 and 2003, the government reported on its Web site.
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ASIA/SOUTH ASIA
China requires censoring software on new PCs
By: Andrew Jacobs, NY Times, June 8, 2009
China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other "unhealthy information" from the Internet. The software, which manufacturers must install on all new PC's starting July 1, allows the government to update computers regularly with an ever-changing list of banned Web sites. The rules, issued last month, ratchet up Internet restrictions already among the most stringent in the world...
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China accused of 'all-out attack' on lawyers
By: Tania Branigan, The Guardian, June 8, 2009
Human rights campaigners have accused Chinese authorities of an "all-out attack" on lawyers who take on sensitive cases, using methods ranging from the non-renewal of their licences to harassment, detention and house arrest. The lawyers concerned have handled clients including dissidents, members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, farmers who have lost their land and Tibetans charged after last spring's unrest. They have warned that the increasing pressure could leave some of the most vulnerable groups in society without representation.
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Police fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir
By: NY Times, June 8, 2009
Security forces opened fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir on Monday, wounding at least seven people, including two critically, in the worst clash since unrest broke out last week over the deaths of two young women. Locals claim the women were raped and killed by Indian soldiers and have staged angry demonstrations that have spread across the Kashmir valley. Monday's protests came a day after police released forensic reports confirming that the two women were raped.
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North Korea convicts 2 U.S. journalists
By: Blaine Harden, Washington Post, June 8, 2009
A North Korean court sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday, as the government of Kim Jong Il continued to ratchet up tension with the United States and its neighbors. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, television reporters detained in March along North Korea's border with China, received harsher sentences than many outsiders had expected. But several experts in South Korea predicted that talks will begin soon to negotiate their release.
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Burma plays long in trial of Aung San Suu Kyi
By: Mark Canning, The Guardian, June 8, 2009
In the face of a wave of condemnation, Burma's military leaders are bending over backwards to project an impression of openness. They have now allowed Aung San Suu Kyi's defence team to appeal the decision of the trial judges to disallow three of the four witnesses her team had wanted to put on the stand. A ruling is expected this week from a higher court, allowing for the resumption of the trial next Friday. Nobody expects it to alter the final verdict, but it may be that the government has come to realise the value of playing things long as a means of dissipating criticism.
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Burma: Junta clampdown on radio listeners
By: Democratic Voice of Burma, June 8, 2009
The Burmese junta has clamped down on the rising numbers of unlicensed radio owners in a move that media experts see as restriction on the freedom of media and access to pro-democracy broadcasts. Yesterday a warning was issued in the New Light of Myanmar newspaper that those listening to radio without holding a license could be prosecuted under the Wireless Act. The warning carried no information on why people would be prosecuted nor why numbers of listeners are increasing, but a Burmese journalist said the increase was linked to the political crisis.
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Burma democracy movement appears to be weakening
By: Charles McDermid, LA Times, June 7, 2009
Even as the trial of activist Aung San Suu Kyi approaches a predictable conclusion in a tumbledown prison courtroom in Yangon, the verdict may already be in for Myanmar's pro-democracy movement. The opposition, already reeling before Suu Kyi's arrest, increasingly appears powerless, divided and incapable of mustering the international intervention needed to topple the country's long-ruling military government. As one opposition leader put it, the prevailing sentiment within the opposition is "outrage and utter hopelessness."
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China: Our brave new cyber world - Online toward democracy
By: Yang Jianli, Post-Gazette, June 7, 2009
A true David vs. Goliath tale is unfolding on the world stage. The courage and intelligence of a handful of dedicated men and women are undermining the world's dictatorships and opening a fast lane to democracy. This development is making possible a 21st century equivalent of the Berlin Wall's collapse. It is the work of a few modern-day "Davids" who are shattering the Internet walls by which the massive police bureaucracies of closed societies keep their people isolated, controlled and oppressed.
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China: Former Tiananmen soldier depicts crackdown through art
By: Peter Harmsen, AP, June 7, 2009
An eerie realism permeates Chen Guang's oil paintings of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, for he was one of the first soldiers to arrive in the square on the night China's democratic hopes were crushed. Now a member of Beijing's alternative art scene, 37-year-old Chen's hair is greying, but he is determined to pass his recollections on, giving rare testimony of the event from a soldier's perspective.
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Lawyer says China must free dissident writer
By: Washington Post, June 7, 2009
The lawyer for a prominent Chinese writer secretly detained six months ago called on authorities Monday to free his client or formally charge him. Dissident author Liu Xiaobo was taken away by police on Dec. 8, a day before the publication of a document he co-authored appealing for sweeping political reform in China. He has not been charged.
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After Tiananmen, China wedded force with freedom
By: John Pomfret, Washington Post, June 7, 2009
In 1989, a chorus of Western voices predicted the Communist party's collapse. "One foot in power and one foot on a banana peel," was how the late, great David Schweisberg of United Press International described the party's predicament. Twenty years after the crackdown, the most intriguing question to me isn't how many people died, or whether there were deaths on the square itself or just on the streets that led to it. It's this: How has the Communist Party managed to emerge from that experience stronger than ever?
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China creates specter of dueling Dalai Lamas
By: Edward Wong, NY Times, June 6, 2009
For centuries, the selection of the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been steeped in the mysticism of a bygone world. All that is about to change, as the current Dalai Lama and his followers in exile here in India compete with the Chinese government for control of how the 15th Dalai Lama will be chosen. The issue is urgent for the Tibetans because the current Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of all Tibetans and the charismatic face of the exile movement, has had recent bouts of ill health. He turns 74 in July.
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Rampant prison abuse in Indonesia
By: Hyo-Jin Paik, Impunity Watch, June 6, 2009
More than two dozen reports of torture and beatings by guards at Abepura prison have been reported. This prison, located in the largest Indonesian province, holds more than 200 inmates, some of whom have been jailed for peaceful political protests.
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Burma rebukes opposition leaders for criticizing trial of Aung San Suu Kyi
By: VOA News, June 6, 2009
State media in Burma said Saturday that military authorities reprimanded members of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party for releasing a statement critical of her trial. The official New Light of Myanmar newspaper said four senior members of the National League for Democracy party met government officials for 30 minutes late Friday. The paper said criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi's detention and trial on charges of violating the terms of her house arrest were "misleading the public."
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Philippines: CBCP urges peaceful protest vs Cha-cha
By: Dona Pazzibugan, Inquirer, June 6, 2009
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines on Saturday encouraged people to stage public demonstrations "in a peaceful, non-violent way" to protest a last-minute move by administration allies to convene the House of Representatives as a constituent assembly to amend the Constitution. In its latest statement on the issue of Charter change, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines insisted that that any amendments should be done through a constitutional convention whose delegates are popularly elected.
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North Koreans get jamming devices
By: Radio Free Asia, June 5, 2009
Authorities in North Korea are launching a campaign to have jamming devices installed in the home of anyone with a television or radio in a bid to block news reaching its citizens from foreign broadcasters. As part of supreme leader Kim Jong Il's "150-day Campaign" aimed at mobilizing North Koreans and boosting production, the North Korean authorities are expanding a crackdown on those who listen to overseas news, according to a defector group in South Korea.
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Tiananmen anniversary muted in mainland China
By: Ariana Eunjung Cha and K.C. Ng, Washington Post, June 5, 2009
Mainland China remained quiet Thursday on the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, while tens of thousands of people staged a protest in Hong Kong. Beijing, the capital, was on virtual lockdown. Key foreign news Web sites were blocked, dissidents were placed under house arrest, and police blanketed the vast square where a still-undetermined number of pro-democracy activists were killed in a violent clash with the military June 4, 1989.
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Human rights group condemns how China gives aid
By: Barry Schweid, AP, June 5, 2009
A joint report by a human rights group and U.S.-funded broadcast services accuses China of deceptively distributing billions of dollars in aid to Africa and other regions in no-strings-attached packages that promote Chinese power while subverting human rights. The report on the use of aid by foreign governments also accuses Russia, Iran and Venezuela of using oil wealth to build foreign alliances and bankroll developing states without pressing them to avoid corruption and cultivate democracy.
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CENTRAL ASIA
Opposition journalist severely beaten in Kyrgyzstan
By: RFE/RL, June 8, 2009
A Kyrgyz journalist who wrote for an opposition periodical was severely beaten on June 5, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. Abduvakhab Moniev, 34, of the opposition "Achyk sayasat" (Open Politics) weekly was hospitalized with multiple injures and bruises after unknown assailants attacked him in Bishkek on June 5. The newspaper's deputy editor in chief, Ryskeldi Mombekov, told RFE/RL that the attack was connected to Moniev's work.
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The great wall: The government of Uzbekistan to take total control over internet
By: Daniil Kislov, Ferghana, June 5, 2009
During the last four-five years the government of Uzbekistan has been strictly blocking the access of its citizens to "unwanted" web-sites. The target of prohibition is mostly independent political and opposition mass media. Such web-sites as Ferghana.Ru as well as many separate publications of other Russian internet agencies, telling the truth about life in the republic, were blocked long ago. It seems that Tashkent wants to take complete control over the Internet.
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EUROPE
Protests against Putin sweep Russia as factories go broke
By: Luke Harding, The Guardian, June 7, 2009
Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, is facing the most sustained and serious grassroots protests against his leadership for almost a decade, with demonstrations that began in the far east now spreading rapidly across provincial Russia. Over the past five months car drivers in the towns of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, on Russia's Pacific coast, have staged a series of largely unreported rallies, following a Kremlin decision in December to raise import duties on secondhand Japanese cars.
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Georgia: Opposition says not to give up street protests
By: Civil Georgia, June 6, 2009
Opposition is now considering "a new tactic" of protests, which will be announced in "next few days," Levan Gachechiladze, an opposition political, said after meeting with a group of foreign diplomats accredited in Tbilisi. "We told [the ambassadors] that the ongoing protests will not slow down, until the crisis is resolved in Georgia, until our key demand is not achieved - Saakashvili's resignation," he told reporters after the meeting.
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Russian rights group protests arrest of prisoner rights activist
By: Peter Fedynsky, VOA News, June 5, 2009
A group of well-known Russian human rights activists recently issued a public statement protesting the arrest of Alexei Sokolov, a civic activist in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. As a vocal defender of prisoner rights in Russia, Sokolov has exposed inhuman beatings and harsh living conditions in the country's detention facilities. Recently, Sokolov was arrested on charges of armed robbery and faces 15 years in the prison system he has sought to reform.
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Russian human rights activist seeks asylum in Finland
By: MosNews, May 30, 2009
Yelena Maglevannaya, Russian journalist working for the Volgograd-based newspaper Svobodnoe Slovo (Free Speech), has applied for political asylum in Finland, Russian website Lenta.ru reports. Collaborating with several human rights organisations in Russia, she has particularly focused on cases of persecution against Chechens. Maglevannaya has become the target of persecution herself after revealing facts about torture in Russian prisons.
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MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
Saudi Arabia's first female minister needs permission to appear on TV
By: Mail Online, June 8, 2009
Saudi Arabia may have nominated its first ever woman cabinet minister - but she cannot appear on television without permission, it has been revealed. Noura al-Faiz's appointment in February as deputy minister for women's education was hailed as a huge step for the integration of women in conservative Saudi Arabia, where a puritanical form of Islam bans women from driving, voting and mixing with unrelated men.
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Israel: A response to the proposal to ban commemoration of the Nakba on independence day
By: Eitan Bronstein, Transcend Media Service, June 8, 2009
The proposal to legally bar the commemoration of the Nakba on Israel's Independence Day reflects growing trepidation in Israel about the inevitable encounter with the Palestinian Nakba and the understanding that the Nakba is a foundational part of Israeli identity. Until recently, the threat of exposing the Nakba was barely felt. There was no need to fight this repressed demon, which might suddenly reveal itself and disrupt the seeming calm of a harmonious Jewish democracy.
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Israel: Jewish town in Galilee demands "loyalty oath"
By: Jonathan Cook, Dissident Voice, June 8, 2009
A community in northern Israel has changed its bylaws to demand that new residents pledge support for "Zionism, Jewish heritage and settlement of the land" in a thinly veiled attempt to block Arab applicants from gaining admission. Critics are calling the bylaw, adopted by Manof, home to 170 Jewish families in Galilee, a local "loyalty oath" similar to a national scheme recently proposed by the far-Right party of the government minister Avigdor Lieberman.
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Iran's 'macaca' moment?
By: Nasser Karimi, Huffington Post, June 8, 2009
Supporters of Iran's main pro-reform presidential candidate formed a human chain that stretched nearly the entire length of Tehran on Monday in their biggest display of political might, sending a powerful challenge to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's backers as both sides poured into the streets in the final days of the race. The showdown atmosphere reflects the increasingly bitter tone between Ahmadinejad and his main rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in the campaign blitz before Friday's vote.
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Iran: Youth may be challenge for Ahmadinejad in poll
By: Zahra Hosseinian, Washington Post, June 8, 2009
The young Iranians cruising noisily around upscale northern Tehran in cars plastered with election posters have only one thing on their minds: denying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term. Millions of reform-minded Iranians stayed away from the polls in 2005, disillusioned by how hardliners had stymied former President Mohammad Khatami's liberal initiatives. Ahmadinejad's political fate may well hang on how many of those jaded voters turn out on June 12 -- if only to thwart him.
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Iranian president's rival says supporters targeted
By: USA Today, June 7, 2009
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main reformist challenger said Sunday that the Iranian president has made false accusations against his supporters to try to sabotage his campaign with just days to go before Friday's presidential election. Former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi wrote a letter to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accusing Ahmadinejad and his supporters of taking unethical steps against his campaign.
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Egypt: Islamist urges al Qaeda to open up to Obama's offer
By: Yahoo! News, June 6, 2009
Essam Derbala, a member of the leadership council of Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group, made the appeal after President Barack Obama said in Cairo Thursday he wanted a "new beginning" in ties between Washington and the Muslim world. "I call on the Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan and al Qaeda to look at this solution and put the American side to a real test of the extent of its sincerity in achieving peace with the Muslim world," Derbala told Reuters.
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Palestinian protester killed in West Bank
By: Richard Boudreaux and Maher Abukhater, LA Times, June 6, 2009
An Israeli border police officer shot and killed a Palestinian man and seriously wounded a teenage boy Friday during a violent demonstration against Israel's installation of a barrier in the West Bank. The clash underscored the intensity of the conflict a day after President Obama, in a landmark address to the Muslim world, voiced sympathy with Palestinians for "the daily humiliations -- large and small -- that come with occupation" but also admonished them to renounce violence in their struggle for an independent state.
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Palestine: Resistance in Gaza
By: Jordan Flaherty, Dissident Voice, June 6, 2009
A charismatic literature major named Ayman Meghames is a minor celebrity in Gaza City. Part of Gaza's first Hip-Hop group - named PR: Palestinian Rapperz - Ayman dedicates his time to supporting and publicizing Gaza's young music scene. For Ayman, making music is a form of resistance to war and occupation, and also a tool to communicate the reality of life in Palestine.
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Lebanese media freedom declines, management "opaque" on operations
By: Magda Abu-Fadil, Huffington Post, June 6, 2009
Lebanese media, long considered the Arab world's trailblazers, have declined in terms of freedom and balanced coverage, with management reluctant to reveal details about inner workings and operations -- a marked setback on the eve of a key legislative election. According to the National Observatory of the Freedom of Opinion and Expression's 2008 report, many Lebanese journalists feel objectivity is a rarity, freedom is in short supply, and harassment they face on and off the job is increasing, for lack of union protection.
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Israel: Nonviolent resistance in southern Bethlehem undeterred despite harassment and arrest
By: PNN, June 6, 2009
The occupying Israeli administration released from prison on Friday a leader of the local nonviolent Palestinian resistance. Mohammad Briggia was violently arrested six weeks ago during the weekly demonstration against the Wall and settlements in the southern West Bank villages, namely Al Ma'sara and Umm Salamuna. He was fined 25,000 shekels in order to obtain release but must still go to military court along with four other residents who protest weekly in the area nonviolent demonstrations.
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian demonstrator in Ni'lin
By: PalSolidarity, June 5, 2009
The Israeli army shot Yousef Akil Srour, aged 36 years in the chest with 0.22 caliber live ammunition. He was dead upon arrival to Ramallah Hospital. Yousef Akil Srour is the 5th Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli army in Ni'lin during a demonstration against the theft of his land for the construction of the Annexation Wall. Israeli forces shot Mohammad Mouslah Mousa, aged 15 years, in the lower chest shortly before shooting Srour.
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Syria: A meeting in Damascus
By: Joe Klein, TIME, June 4, 2009
About an hour after Barack Obama's excellent Cairo speech, I met with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, at his office here to talk about the speech and the Israel-Palestine conflict. We spoke for several hours. Meshal speaks some English, but he feels more comfortable using an interpreter. He listened to my questions in English, asking occasionally for translation of a word or phrase, and gave his answers in Arabic. He never raised his voice or used militant language, but he never yielded on his basic position either.
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Iran: "Ahmadinejad's Uncertain Future"
By: Project on Middle East Democracy, June 4, 2009
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held a symposium on Iran's upcoming presidential elections, the first round of which is scheduled for the 12th of this month. Speaking at the symposium were Robin Wright of the Wilson Center and Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment. Haleh Esfandiari of the Wilson Center moderated.
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Iran's Ebadi says election may help human rights
By: Fredrik Dahl, Reuters, June 4, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi says Iran's human rights situation has worsened under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but that moderate rivals in this month's election offer hope for improvement. Ebadi said the number of arrests of student, labour and women's rights activists had increased over the past four years and also that more convicted criminals were being executed, including juvenile offenders.
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Iran: Young woman commits suicide in prison after torture
By: Iran Focus, June 4, 2009
A female prisoner has committed suicide to escape "unbearable torture" by prison guards, according to reports from Ward 7 of Gohardasht Prison. Mahnaz Akbar Tehrani, 22, was initially taken to the Protection and Security Department in prison and was subjected to "brutal torture", human rights activists say. "She was tortured severely to a point that she had to be helped to walk to her cell and was left with a bloody face."
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Media watchdog slams Yemen's press crackdown
By: Daily Star Lebanon, June 2, 2009
The Yemeni government has "sacrificed" press freedom in attempting to control unrest in the southern regions, a Doha-based media watchdog charged on Monday. "There can be no doubt that the Sanaa authorities have sacrificed press freedom in their efforts to control unrest in the south of the country," the Doha Center for Media Freedom said in a statement. The government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh decided in May to close eight newspapers it accused of inciting separatism in southern Yemen, where 16 people have been killed in clashes since late April.
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Some Lebanese pick highest bidder to be their next 'oppressor'
By: Yara Bayoumy, Daily Star, June 2, 2009
Many Lebanese have a nose for money and it is never more sensitive than at election time. Some candidates in next Sunday's parliamentary polls are trying to tilt close contests in key constituencies by offering voters anything from cash and health perks to airline tickets, Lebanese say. And some voters are equally keen to cash in, setting their price or offering their ballots to the highest bidder.
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Islamists lose ground in the Middle East
By: Joshua Muravchik, Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2009
The results of Kuwait's elections last month -- in which Islamists were rebuffed and four women were elected to parliament -- will likely reinvigorate the movement for greater democracy in the region that has stalled since the hopeful "Arab spring" of 2005. It also puts pressure on the Obama administration to end its deafening silence on democracy promotion.
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OCEANIA
West Papua: Indonesian judiciary and police are afraid of the words freedom and self determination
By: Free West Papua, June 3, 2009
In West Papua people are not allowed to peacefully express themselves. Two West Papuan Human Right Activists, Bucthar Tabuni and Sebby Sambom, attended the Jayapura High Court today. Buchtar Tabuni has now attended the court 12 times, and the judge has never allowed full eye witness report or provided evidence of the 'offence' that Buchtar Tabuni is accused of committing.
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ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Podcast: Tutu's daughter a force for human rights
By: NPR, June 7, 2009
Archbishop Desmond Tutu's daughter, Nontombi Naomi Tutu, grew up in South Africa under apartheid, where she faced discrimination and segregation. She is now an internationally-recognized human rights activist. Tutu joins host Liane Hansen to talk about her role as the keynote speaker at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders and her role in human rights activism.
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NOTICES
Campaign: Solidarity with Iranians
By: Leila Zand, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, July 2 - July 14, 2009
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) invites you to join us in a two-part campaign this coming month focused on a tangible act of building peace and solidarity between the people of Iran and the United States. First, we ask that you participate with us in a national candlelight vigil on July 3, 2009. On the 3rd of July, our delegation will take a trip to the Persian Gulf and pay respects to those who lost their lives when the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf in 1988.
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