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Friday January 29, 2010
Pakistan • Religious Persecution: 
A court hearing was underway Friday, January 29, in Pakistan against the main suspect in the murder of a 12-year-old Christian domestic servant, her family’s representatives said. Shazia Masih was allegedly mentally and physically abused in the of Muslim lawyer Chaudhry Mohammad Naeem, in the city of Lahore, where she had worked for the last eight months to support her poor parents.
Saturday January 23, 2010
Human Rights Violations • Islam • Pakistan: 
A young Christian shopkeeper was sentenced to a life term in prison and fined more than $1,000 last week following a dubious conviction of desecrating the Quran, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace. A conviction for blaspheming Muhammad (Section 295-C) is punishable by death under Pakistani’s notorious blasphemy laws. Widely condemned by the international community as easily invoked to settle personal enmities, Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have come under review in recent months, but to no avail.
Wednesday November 4, 2009
Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • Islam • USA: 
MILAN — An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition, AP reports. The American suspects — all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents — are being tried in absentia and are considered fugitives.
Friday June 5, 2009
Islam: The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week. The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint so far – ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim – does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday’s (June 11) hearing.
Monday September 15, 2008
Islam: 
In a further sign that Britain is fast succumbing to Islamization, Islamic law has now been officially recognized.Labour last night faced a backlash over claims the Government had quietly sanctioned powers for Sharia judges.
The rulings of a network of five Sharia courts are enforceable with the full authority of the judicial system as they are now classed as tribunal hearings under British law.
Friday September 12, 2008
Human Rights Violations • USA: 
A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy.It shows not only are white evangelical Southerners more likely than the general populace to believe torture is sometimes or often justified, but also that they are far more likely—to tweak a phrase from Proverbs—to “lean on their own understanding” regarding the subject.
Sunday July 6, 2008
Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • USA: Legal experts from 95 countries have devised a way of measuring how well leaders, officials and judges are meeting the basic principles of law and human rights. That means the USA no longer has to pretend that it is the standard by which all other countries should be judged.
Also: not coincidentally, Robert Jay Lifton comments on America’s use of torture.
Also: not coincidentally, Robert Jay Lifton comments on America’s use of torture.
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