“[A]mid a spiraling crackdown on religious groups and government critics,”
- Rights Group: 39 Uzbeks Died of Torture in Prisons (AP / Herald online)
Just asking: Is a country whose state-paid clerical officials issue a formal religious ruling against renting or selling to a religious or ethnic minority really a democracy?
- Is Israel a Democracy? Five Actions in 2010 that Fueled the Debate (Christian Science Monitor)
U.N. ambassador “Youssoufou Bamba expressed alarm that houses in certain areas were being marked according to the tribe of the person who lives there” …
- Ivory Coast on the ‘Brink of Genocide’ (Guardian)
… it is only the tip of the iceburg of the problem of the more fundamental problem in African governance:
- Ivory Coast Election Crisis: A Roadmap for African Political Reform (Christian Science Monitor)
“Shiite Muslims in Malaysia have made a rare public plea for authorities to let them legally worship amid fears of a clampdown on outlawed religious groups”:
- Shiite Muslims in Malaysia Make Plea for Government to Let Them Freely Practice Faith (AP / Washington Post)
“Israeli security forces have orchestrated a campaign of regular night time arrest raids against Issawiya residents in an effort to halt growing popular resistance to segregation, home demolition and land confiscation”:
- The Struggle for East Jerusalem (Al-Jazeera)
“An Iraqi asylum seeker accused of plotting a shooting attack on the Copenhagen office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was freed Thursday due to an apparent lack of evidence”:
- 1 Suspect in Denmark Terror Case Released, 3 Held (AP / CT Post)
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