From the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA), July 5: Alieh Eghdam Doost, who was arrested on June 12, 2006 for attending a women’s rights rally in Tehran, is sentenced to three years and five months prison term and 20 lashes,… Read moreIran: women’s rights activist gets prison and lashes
From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), July 6: Statement of Iraq Freedom Congress on the Assassination of Abdelhussein Saddam The terrorist US forces kidnapped Abdelhussein Saddam, head of the Safety Force of the Iraq Freedom Congress after opening fire at… Read moreIraq: civil resistance leader killed by US forces
From the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI), July 3: Ebrahm Madadi, the vice-president of the board of directors of Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company was arrested on July 3, 2007. According to… Read moreIran: transport union leader arrested
Authorities in Brazil say they freed over 1,000 workers who were being held captive as “debt slaves” at an ethanol producing sugarcane plantation. The Brazilian Ministry of Justice said that police from the Mobile Verification Task Force freed 1,108 workers… Read moreBrazil: slaves freed from biofuel plantation
Argentina is preparing for a new human rights trial for crimes committed during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Just days before the start of the latest trial, Argentine police discovered a body thought to be that of a missing witness. Police… Read moreArgentina: rights trial opens; witness found dead?
From Israel Indymedia (via Kibush), June 25: Tonight we, a group of autonomous women activists, have protested against the Akerstein Company and its support for the Separation Wall. We have acted at the Akerstein sales center at Herzlia Pituach- we… Read moreIsrael: activists glue wall company shut
From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), July 4: The US Special Forces attack the head of Safety Force, Abd-alhussien Sadam; opened fire at him and his daughter A US special unit escorted by Iraqi national guards had attacked the house… Read moreIraq: details on US attack against civil resistance leader
Cindy Sheehan announced July 3 that she is asking people to join her in a 10-day walk from Atlanta to Washington DC, starting July 13 for a “people’s accountability movement.” On her blog, she said “the straw that broke my… Read moreCindy Sheehan back in the game
From CISPES, July 3: On July 2, various organizations and communities in the municipality of Suchitoto gathered for a protest against the official announcement of the “National Policy of Water Decentralization” by President Antonio Saca. The peaceful protest was brutally… Read moreProtests against water privatization repressed in El Salvador
Security forces arrested Maulana Abdul Aziz, imam of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, as he attempted to escape covered in a burqa with a group of similarly clad women July 4. More than 1,000 of his followers surrendered… Read morePakistan: Red Mosque imam escapes in drag —almost
WW4 REPORT has received the following letter from David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research (link added): You may wish to remove the article, “The Gas-Guzzling Lobby Stops Time” from your site, as it is… Read moreGas-Guzzler Lobby strikes back
From the Nobel Women’s Initiative, June 19: While the Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that the war in Iraq is not about oil, U.S. oil corporations are poised to take control over the 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves… Read moreIraq: Nobel laureates oppose oil law
