From Haartez, Feb. 19: Jewish group: Try Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is set to file a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to… Read moreGenocide incitement charges for Ahmadinejad?
From the Village Voice’s Power Plays blog, Feb. 15: Judge: City Can’t Stop Critical Mass Ride by Sarah Ferguson A judge today threw another monkey wrench in New York City’s effort to stop the Critical Mass bike rides. In a… Read moreNYC: legal victory in Critical Mass struggle
From South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, from wire sources, Feb. 15: Italian minister to wear Muhammad cartoon T-shirt A prominent Italian government figure planned on Wednesday to wear a T-shirt sporting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent… Read moreSartorial front in “cartoon jihad”?
Yet more evidence of the Western democracies’ sterling commitment to freedom of expression. From the Washington Post: LONDON, Feb. 15 — The House of Commons on Wednesday backed a bill that would make “glorification” of terrorism a criminal offense, a… Read moreUK: anti-free speech measure advances
From Africa News Dimension, Feb. 15: Around 10,000 Eritrean-Americans marched from the White House to the Department of State in Washington , DC to urge the U.S. government to ensure the enforcement of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s (EEBC) “final and… Read moreEritreans march in DC for border demarcation
From Reuters, Feb. 14: Militias in Somalia are looting shipments of aid for drought victims and forcing aid drivers to pay bribes, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Attacks by Somali pirates in recent months have caused aid agencies to… Read moreProtein wars in Somalia
From Reuters, via The Star of Malaysia, Feb. 14 (emphasis added): BEIRUT – Uproar in the Islamic world over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has prompted many in the Middle East to ask why Muslims have rarely mobilised to address… Read moreArab dissent in cartoon controversy
This is practically Orwellian. Is the Algerian regime using the printing of the anti-Islam cartoons—blurred and denounced—as an excuse to crack down on pro-Islamist newspapers? From Al-Jazeera, Feb. 13: Algeria and Yemen have arrested journalists working for newspapers that have… Read moreArab journalists arrested in cartoon controversy
Bosnian Muslims burned the Croatian flag in front of the country’s Sarajevo embassy Feb. 8, in a protest over the publication of the Danish cartoons in a Croatian weekly magazine. Hundreds of Bosnian Muslims also protested at the Danish, Norwegian… Read moreBosnia: Croatian flag burned in cartoon protest
On Jan. 17, members of Paraguayan social and political organizations marched in Asuncion and burned US flags to protest the presence of US soldiers in their country, and to condemn the Paraguayan legislature’s decision last year to let the troops… Read moreParaguay: march against US troops
A glimmer of hope from The Guardian, Feb. 8: Sweden plans to be world’s first oil-free economy Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15… Read moreSweden: oil-free by 2020
Sent by Mahmood Ketabchi, an exiled follower of the Worker Communist Party of Iran now living in New Jersey and active in support work for workers’ and women’s movements in Iran and Iraq. Emphasis added. Defend Freedom of Press—and the… Read more“Defend the right to blasphemy”
