The rally in Lower Manhattan in support of Cordoba House was far bigger and more spirited than the Islamophobe opposition—but led by a Stalinist cult that supported genocide against Bosnian Muslims.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Galkayo, a town in Somalia’s northern enclave of Puntland, against plans by a southern preacher in the US to hold a mass Koran-burning.
A Chinese prison on Sept. 9 released Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who has finished serving a four-year sentence for “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
The International Campaign for Human Right in Iran called for the immediate release of prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was detained this week at Tehran’s Evin prison.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro, in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, warns Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against Holocaust-denial and anti-Semitism.
The 33 trapped Chilean miners may not receive any wages while they are trapped underground, a union official has claimed. The miners are expected to be trapped until year’s end.
In comments before the Council on Foreign Relations, Hillary Clinton asserted that the US, Mexico and the Central American countries need to cooperate on an “equivalent” of Plan Colombia.
The Central American region is again being hit by devastating floods, in a rainy season that has wreaked destruction across the isthmus, leaving scores dead and thousands displaced.
Honduran police have blamed street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels for the killing of at least 18 employees in a shoe factory in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula.
A Guatemalan judge ruled that three soldiers charged in connection with a 1982 peasant massacre that left more than 260 dead in a jungle village will face trial.
The Los Angeles Times sees communist agitators behind the uprising by Central American immigrants in Los Angeles’ Westlake district following the police shooting of a Guatemalan day-laborer.
Twelve people were injured when a bomb went off in front of the local office of the Administrative Security Department (DAS), Colombia’s secret police agency, in the southern city of Pasto.
