From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 13: El Salvador’s Attorney General last Friday [Feb. 8] requested that charges of “acts of terrorism” be dropped against 13 peaceful protesters arrested at a demonstration against… Read moreEl Salvador: terrorism charges dropped against “Suchitoto 13”
In an important ruling, an Egyptian court has allowed two converts to Islam to return to their original Coptic Orthodox faith. In the past many Copts who become Muslims in order to secure divorces (which is not permissible under Coptic… Read moreEgypt: Copts allowed to “reconvert” to their faith
Protesters took to the streets of the Kashmiri capital Srinagar [Feb. 11] to mark the 24th anniversary of the hanging of Maqbool Bhat, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. In 1984, Bhat was executed in Delhi for… Read moreProtests mark anniversary of Kashmir “martyr”
A car bomber killed ten people, including a candidate in upcoming [local] elections, in northwest Pakistan when he slammed his vehicle into the candidate’s convoy [Feb. 11]. Nisar Ali Khan was due to run as an independent, but was thought… Read morePakistan: secular Pashtuns under attack
From the Students Freedom Campaign, Tehran, Jan. 27: February 16th, 2007: International Day of Protest against Islamic Republic of Iran For Freedom of All Imprisoned Students! Incarceration, torture, pressure, arrest, and prosecution of egalitarian, freedom-loving students (in Iran) is continuing…. Read moreInternational day of action to free imprisoned students in Iran
Spanish police Feb. 11 arrested 14 prominent members of the outlawed Basque nationalist party Batasuna. Most of the arrests, ordered by leading anti-terrorist prosecutor Judge Baltasar Garzon, took place in towns around the northern Basque region and neighboring Navarra. One,… Read moreSpain arrests 14 Basque activists
An estimated 3,500 people attended a rally on Feb. 6 in Danbury, Connecticut, to protest a partnership between Danbury police and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While the demonstrators voiced their opposition outside City Hall, inside the Common Council… Read moreThousands protest ICE in Danbury
At a press conference on Jan. 28 at the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, activist Flor Crisóstomo announced she would not comply with her deportation set for that date, and would instead go into sanctuary at… Read moreActivist takes “sanctuary” from ICE in Chicago
On the afternoon of Feb. 7, more than 100 ICE agents raided the headquarters of Micro Solutions Enterprises (MSE), a manufacturer of computer toner and inkjet cartridges in Van Nuys, California. ICE executed a federal search warrant at the site… Read moreICE raids continue in western states
On Feb. 7 Henry Ruben and other US activists were forcefully removed from a public hearing held by the US House Subcommittee on Western Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, DC on “Plan Mexico,” a secretive $1.5 billion package of military aid… Read moreUS activists protest “Plan Mexico”
A group of five men armed with AK-47 and AR-15 rifles and 9mm pistols shot and killed Alejandro Barrita Ortiz, director of the Auxiliary, Industrial, Bank and Commercial Police for the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, on Jan. 30 as… Read moreMexico: Oaxaca top cop shot
The Nueva Vida Women’s Cooperative Maquiladora (COMAMNUVI), a Nicaraguan women’s sewing cooperative in Ciudad Sandino, just outside Managua, says that it is about to lose its land. According to the cooperative, a certain Yelba Carvajal is suing in court to… Read moreNicaragua: women’s coop may lose its land
