Islamist guerillas are stepping up attacks in Algeria, apparently led by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which has rejected an amnesty offered by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to try to end more than a decade of violence. On… Read moreAlgeria: guerilla resurgence
In a decision dated April 7 and released on April 11, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled that Southern California Muslim community leader Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan can be removed to Jordan, partially reversing a Feb. 12, 2005 ruling by immigration… Read moreJordan deportation approved —despite torture claim
On June 1, after six months in detention–with much of that time spent in solitary confinement–Seattle Muslim leader Abrahim Sheikh Mohamed gave up his legal battle against deportation. Mohamed was arrested Nov. 14 on immigration violations at Sea-Tac Airport, where… Read moreSeattle imam faces deportation to Somalia
Scotland Yard’s anti-terror chief is awarded “Commander of the British Empire”—in the wake of a controvesial shooting of a young Muslim man in a police raid that turned up nothing. From The Telegraph, June 17: There has been a storm… Read moreUK honors anti-terror chief after shooting
Our correspondent Mahmood Ketabchi writes for his Hammer & Broom blog: Thousands of women and male supporters came together on June 12 in Haft Tir Square in Tehran, Iran to protest against anti-women Islamic laws and gender apartheid. A similar… Read moreIran: women’s protest brutally attacked
Hamas called off a 16-month-old truce with Israel June 9 after attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza killed 10 Palestinians, including three children playing on a beach. “The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle,” Hamas said in a statement…. Read moreHamas ends truce following Gaza raids, demands Egyptian intervention
Reuters reported May 29 that Mali’s armed forces are hunting down Tuareg rebels who have taken up arms again, demanding more autonomy for the desert north. According to the report, the rebels used pickup trucks mounted with machine guns to… Read moreMali: Tuareg revolt back on?
UN troops and armed gangs exchanged gunfire in Haiti’s Cite Soleil shantytown late June 7, leaving at least three dead. Cite Soleil, on the northern edge of the Poart-au-Prince, was the scene of routine gunfights between gangs and foreign troops… Read moreHaiti: new violence in Cite Soleil
Brzilian lawmakers announced they are seeking to question an imprisoned gang leader suspected of having ordered the onslaught of violence that killed nearly 200 in and around Sao Paulo last month. Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, known as Marcola, heads the… Read moreBrazil: police link to gang terror probed
From Upside Down World, June 7: About 300 demonstrators protesting the slow pace of land reform invaded the Brazilian Parliament Building June 7. The protesters vandalized the pristine building and destroyed a car waiting to be raffled off to Congressional… Read moreLandless workers invade Brazil’s parliament
From the Global Justice Ecology Project, June 6: Protesters Arrested After Disrupting Negroponte in Vermont by Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann/Global Justice Ecology Project St. Johnsbury,VT–National Intelligence Director John Negroponte’s Commencement Address to the graduating class of private St. Johnsbury… Read moreVermont: activists disrupt Negroponte
On May 29, some 600,000 public and private high school students went on strike throughout Chile, and thousands took over school buildings. On May 30, at least 500,000 students marched in the streets around the country. The protests were met… Read moreStudent protests rock Chile; Mapuche suspend hunger strike
