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(Ottawa, Canada - April 22, 2008) - In an open letter, the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) in partnership with the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), Federation of Muslim Women (FMW), Islamic Ahlul Bayt Assembly of Canada, Islamic Circle of North America Canada (ICNA Canada), Islamic Society of North America Canada (ISNA Canada) and Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), along with an additional 11 organizations, today asked authorities to consider reasonable bail terms and re-examine the use of solitary confinement for the "Toronto 11." Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1296
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I just couldn’t help but notice for some time now how the CBC appears to use the same language as the Chinese regime’s state-controlled Xinhua news agency when it comes to describing Falun Gong. The article published April 17 titled ”China 'worst human rights abuser in the world': Tory MP” is a good example but there are many more. Here is an excerpt of that piece: “a meditative practice the Chinese government likens to a cult”. Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2044
Tags: CBC Beijing Falun Gong Marie Beaulieu
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Dear Mr. President Jimmy Carter I am writing to you on behalf of Gush Shalom, The Israeli Peace Bloc, to congratulate you on your wise and courageous decision to meet in Damascus with Hamas leaders and talk with them on the ways to promote peace in our region. Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1820
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White Ribbon Alliance Calls For International Monetary Fund and World Bank to Invest in Women's Health Says Deadly Delays and Broken Promises Make Pregnancy and Childbirth #1 Killer of Women in World Today Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2437
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CIPFG IS CALLING ON THE CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE TO URGE ATHLETES TO WEAR YELLOW RIBBONS AT THE OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES IN BEIJING in support of Falun Gong practitioners persecuted in China and other oppressed groups Comments (1) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2109
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Pakistan: Human rights groups denounce burning to death of up to 7 lawyers in Karachi and call for immediate action. (Follow-up to Jan. 22/08 statement and Feb. 20/08 Statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council-UNHRC)[1] Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1932
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National Lawyers Guild Calls on Boalt Hall to Dismiss Law Professor John Yoo, Whose Torture Memos Led to Commission of War Crimes New York. In a memorandum written the same month George W. Bush invaded Iraq, Boalt Hall law professor John Yoo said the Department of Justice would construe US criminal laws not to apply to the President's detention and interrogation of enemy combatants. According to Yoo, the federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming and stalking do not apply to the military in the conduct of the war. Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1987
Tags: Marjorie Cohn National Lawyers Guild John Yoo War Crimes Torture Memos
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Chinese authorities “strike hard” at the group, victims dying within days of arrest NEW YORK -- The Falun Dafa Information Center is alarmed at a series of reports indicating adherents in China are being killed in custody within days, or even hours, of being detained by authorities. The Center expressed today that the escalating maltreatment is a direct result of efforts to “stamp out” Falun Gong prior to the summer Olympics. Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1699
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