NOVEMBER 2007 NEWS REPORTS:
November 30, 2007: (Source: Institute on Religion and Democracy) "RD’s Church Alliance for a New Sudan denounces the extremism that is being promoted by radical clerics and the obscene guilty verdict of Gillian Gibbons in Khartoum. It’s no coincidence that riots by radical Islamists frequently occur on Fridays after worship at the mosques. The teachings in many of the mosques by extremist clerics fan the flames of irrational hatred." Click here to read more.
November 30 (Source: Compass Direct News) – A Syrian Orthodox priest kidnapped in southeastern Turkey Wednesday (November 28) walked free from his captors this afternoon, a church source said. Click here to read more.
November 30, 2007: (Source: Compass Direct News) Bowing to demands of prosecution lawyers, yesterday the judge presiding over a contrived case against two Turkish converts to Christianity for “insulting Turkishness” ordered 12 more witnesses to testify. Click here to read more.
November 29, 2007: (Source: English Pen) "English PEN is seriously concerned for the well-being of its Honorary Member, the Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer following reports that he has been beaten and ill-treated in detention at Borg Alarab prison, where he is serving his four-year sentence." Click here to read more.
November 28, 2007: (Source: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information)The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information welcomed today the administrative court's decision issued yesterday to halt a previous decision issued by the Minster of Justice to change the trial's venue of Egyptian Aldostur newspaper's Chief Editor Ibrahim Issa from the Algalaa court to New Cairo City's court, the case was dubbed as "rumors about the president's health". Click here to read more.
November 28 (Source: Compass Direct News) – Pakistani Christians have played a prominent role in the struggle against harsh emergency laws established by the country’s president this month. And many of have paid the price. Click here to read more.
November 27, 2002: (Source IFEX)"Reporters Without Borders has protested against the arrest of journalist Slim Boukhdir, who according to latest reports is being held at a police station in the suburbs of Sfax, 231 kilometres south of Tunis." Click here to read more.
November 27, 2007 (Source: Compass Direct News) – At the opening day trial of three Christians tortured and killed here in April, attorneys for the bereft families accused prosecutors of “sloppy” investigations that focused on the religious activities of the victims rather than on the crime itself. Click here to read more.
November 27, 2007: (Source IFEX) "Dear Secretary General, We are writing to you, for the second time since January, to express our great concern at the continuous attacks on freedom of expression by the Tunisian authorities since the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in Tunis two years ago. As you know, this month also marks President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's celebration of the 20th anniversary of his accession to power on 7 November. Following your comments that reportedly appear to embrace the legacy of President Ben Ali, we would like to take this opportunity to point out that economic growth in Tunisia has come at the cost of sacrificing human rights, in particular freedom of expression." Click here to read more.
November 26, 2007: Egyptian Christian Michael Seehah Falsely Charged with Extortion in Bribery Attempt by Egyptian mayor and local police. Click here to read more.
November 25, 2007: (Source: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information)"11 days passed since a communiqué was sent to the Prosecutor-General about the torturing of blogger Karim Amer in Borg Alarab prison without ordering an investigation, a matter that raises concerns and doubts about justice and leaves the door open for impunity from punishment in Egypt, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today. " Click here to read more.
November 24, 2007: (Source: Christian Post Reporter) An Egyptian Christian woman has been jailed for her father’s brief conversion to Islam over 40 years ago which made her legally a Muslim despite her official papers stating that she is a Christian, her lawyer said Thursday. Shadia Nagui Ibrahim, 47, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in jail on the charge of fraud for stating she is a Christian on her marriage certificate, according to Agence France-Presse. Click here to read more.
November 23, 2007: (Source: IFEX) The prosecution in Beytüþþebap, in Sirnak province of southeastern Turkey, has charged Emin Bal for not informing legal authorities when people shouted "criminal" slogans at the funeral of a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighter he was filming." Click here to read more.
November 22, 2007: (Institute of Race Relations) "An Algerian exile, with refugee rights in Germany, has been arrested in Spain and now faces extradition to Algeria. In 2003 former Algerian colonel Mohammed Samraoui - at the time a political refugee in Germany - published the book Chronique des années de sang (Denoël, Paris). Samraoui, who had deserted from the Department for Information and Security, denounced, in the book, both the crimes committed by terrorists, who were claiming to act in the name of Islam, and the systematic human rights abuses inflicted by elements of the Algerian state apparatus on its long-suffering population during the 1990s. Click here to read more.
November 22, 2007: Siham Ibrahim Muhammad Hassan al-Sharqawi (24), a Muslim convert known by the Christian name of Mary Nabil Ibrahim, has been arrested on her third wedding anniversary (November 22) to a Coptic man. Click here to read more.
November 17, 2007: (Source Human Rights Watch) "A court in Saudi Arabia doubled its sentence of lashings for a rape victim who had spoken out in public about her case and her efforts to seek justice, Human Rights Watch said today. The court also harassed her lawyer, banning him from the case and confiscating his professional license." Click here to read more.
November 16, 2007: (Human Rights Watch) The Hamas-run government in Gaza must establish an independent and nonpartisan commission of inquiry to hold security forces accountable for their use of excessive and indiscriminate force against pro-Fatah demonstrators in Gaza City on Monday, Human Rights Watch said today. More than 90 demonstrators were wounded and seven lost their lives when Hamas security forces opened fire. Click here to read more.
November 3, 2007: (Source: Human Rights Watch) "Egypt should cease summary returns and provide the United Nations access to 48 asylum seekers, most of whom appear to have fled war-torn Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt reportedly forcibly returned at least five of the group to Sudan on October 28." Click here to read more.
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