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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 05, 2010 - 15:02 by orangecitadel
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Lebanese man, Ali Hussain Sabat, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for sorcery and is facing execution. Amnesty International is campaigning for him. You can write a letter in his defence or sign the Facebook petition. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Sunday April 04, 2010 - 20:10 by John Farrell
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The IT is reporting that: Easter Sunday Mass at Dublin’s Pro Cathedral was briefly interrupted as protesters placed children’s shoes on the altar to represent the victims of clerical sex abuse. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday April 03, 2010 - 23:00 by no platform
Eugène Terre Blanche the horseriding Boer leader of the South African neo nazi movement who wanted to carve a seccessionist "homeland" for whites out of post apartheid South Africa has been murdered in his sleep on his farm just outside of Ventersdorp on April 3, 2010. It is alleged that he was beaten to death with pipes and pangas by two men ages 16 and 21 who apparently were upset over a wage dispute. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 02, 2010 - 15:19 by Anon
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An Australian court finds that the existing drug laws, by reversing the onus of proof, violate the presumption of innocence. But all convictions stand. To any legislator who willingly allows the reverse onus of proof to continue, I say: May it please God that you become a victim of it. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 01, 2010 - 14:10 by John Cornford
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Yassamine Mather interviews Mohammad Reza Shalgouni in the article below. Mohammad is a founder-member of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) and has been a leader of the organisation for many years. Mohammad spent nine years as a political prisoner in Iran under the shah and today is an active supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran. In this interview he sstresses the need to oppose Imperialism as well as opposing Ahmadinejads regime. Full text at link. Mohammad Reza Shalgouni The office of Iran’s supreme leader is not only in total confrontation with the people, but at the same time most of the Shia ayatollahs who are accepted as sources of religious guidance are trying to distance themselves from him. The truth is that the traditional Shia religious governance is a form of republic (in the way Engels refers to the Protestant church as the ‘republican church’ and the Catholic church as the ‘Royalist church’), but now vali faghih is trying to change it into a royalist system, making the independence of centres of guidance impossible. ... read full story / add a comment |
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