Iran detained Joshua Fattal & Sara Shourd & Shane Bauer accused of Espionage
Sarah (Sara) Shourd – 31
Sarah (Sara) Shourd – 31
Joshua (Josh) Fattal – 27
Shane Bauer – 27
Shane Bauer is said to be from “the Bay area.”
He is a writer and a contributor to New American Media (NAM).
Find a link to some of Mr. Bauer’s article at his website.
What appears to be Mr. Bauer’s website is ShaneBauer.net. Read articles written by Mr. Bauer here. Titles include Iraq’s New Death Squad, Muslims in Syria like Obama’s Tone but Want New Policy, Al-Qaeda Violence Rises as U.S. Strategy Unravels in Iraq, Blast in Iraq Not News Anymore, A Day in the Green Zone, among others.
Joshua Fattal is a resident of Eugene, Oregon.
Read more about Mr. Fattal here.
A Joshua Fattal was the internship coordinator at Aprovecho Research Center, a nonprofit research and education center near Cottage Grove.
Fattal posted an entry on his Facebook page on July 17, saying that he was in the Middle East. In response to a friend’s query, he wrote that he was on his way to Damascus and that he was planning to be in Kurdistan.
Ms. Shourd is a writer and a contributor to New America Media, and Matador Pulse. According to NWCN.com, is said to be from “the Bay area.” There is a Facebook profile for a Sarah Shroud from California who is
a “teacher/writer at Iraqi Students Project Connections.” The profile also says Ms. Shourd is “currently based in the Middle East.”
Kurdish officials from the self-ruled region in northern Iraq said the three people detained had mistakenly crossed into Iranian territory Friday while hiking in a mountainous area near the resort town of Ahmed Awaa. Iraq’s Kurdish region has been relatively free of the violence that plagues the rest of Iraq. Foreigners often feel freer to move around without security guards in the area, and it’s relatively easy to enter the region from Turkey, particularly by plane. The Kurdish government generally grants visitors visas valid for one week when they arrive at the airport.
Update 11-09-09:
Announced today that Shroud, Fattal and Bauer are accused of “espionage,” and they will be put on trial in Iran.
It is not clear from his comments whether formal charges have been filed. In Iran’s judicial system, the process of charging and trying suspects often takes place behind closed doors.
Reportedly, the three left the Nirwan Hotel in the city of Sulaimaniya, Iraq to hike in nearby mountains. One companion of the three, Shon Meckfessel, felt ill and stayed behind. According to a report out of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq published by TheRegister-Guard
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“Free American Hikers-Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd & Joshua Fattal From Iran”
“Free the Hikers: Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer, and Sarah Shourd in Solidarity”
“Send Bill Clinton to Iran to free the American hikers!”
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FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER, SARAH SHOURD, JOSH FATTAL, DETAINED IN IRAN
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-hikers10-2009nov10,0,2443393.story
Iran charges three Americans-Jews with espionage
Three Americans arrested by Iranian authorities last summer during what their families describe as a hiking expedition along the Iran-Iraq border now face espionage charges, a leading Iranian judiciary official said today.
Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the powerful Tehran public prosecutor, told the country’s official Islamic Republic News Agency that the investigation of the three individuals is ongoing and that a judgment will be announced “in the not too distant future.”
Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Joshua Fattal, 27, were arrested by Iranian authorities July 31 during what their friends and families describe as a hiking trip in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, which borders Iran. Tehran officials say the three crossed illegally into Iranian territory.
U.S. officials have urged Iran to dismiss the charges. “We believe strongly that there is no evidence to support any charge whatsoever,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters in Berlin, according to news agencies.
“We would renew our request on behalf of these three young people and their families that the Iranian government exercise compassion and release them so they can return home, and we will continue to make that case,” she said.
Relations between Iran and the U.S., already strained over a long-standing dispute concerning the nature of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, worsened after weeks of unrest sparked by the disputed June 12 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tehran accuses the U.S. and the West of inciting the protests.
Jafari-Dolatabadi also said that French researcher Clotilde Reiss would soon stand trial. Reiss, 24, was arrested July 1 as she tried to leave Tehran after spending several months as a French teacher in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. She appeared in one of the televised trials during Iran’s unrest, accused of espionage.
Joined the crusade demanding the release of three American-Jews hikers, who were arrested in Iran, on 31 July 2009, accused of espionage, who are recent UC Berkeley graduates.
Sarah Shourd, Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer were detained July 31 when they crossed into Iran while on a hike in Iraq’s Kurdish region. Friends and family said the trio had become disoriented and accidentally crossed the border. Shourd, 31, and Bauer, 27, were visiting from Damascus, Syria, where Shourd teaches English and Bauer is a freelance journalist. Fattal, 27, who works for an environmental group in Oregon, was visiting Shourd and Bauer when the trio were arrested.
The Iranian government has confirmed the three are being held, but has not allowed authorities from the Swiss Consulate, who are acting on behalf of the U.S. government, to see them, said State Department spokesman Andy Laine. The United States does not have diplomatic relations with Iran.
Clinton has asked several times that the three be released, but the Iranian government has not responded, Laine said.
Friends and family of the three hikers gathered on the Berkeley campus Monday to bring attention to the plight of the detainees.
“It is heartbreaking for us to have no news about our children,” said Shourd’s mother, Nora Shourd. “We hope the Iranian authorities recognize this for what it was, a regrettable mistake, and let our children come home.”
E-mail Carolyn Jones at carolynjones@sfchronicle.com.
Iran charges 3 Americans with espionage
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/10/2737922.htm
Iran says it has charged three young Americans with espionage, three months after they were arrested for illegally entering the country.
The United States has vowed to fight for their release.
Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd were arrested in late July after entering Iran from Iraq.
Their families say they were hiking and mistakenly strayed across the border.
Iranian authorities have now accused them of espionage.
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has condemned the move.
“We believe strongly that there is no evidence to support any charge whatsoever,” she said.
“And we would renew our request on behalf of these three young people and their families that the Iranian government exercise compassion and release them so they can return home, and we will continue to make that case.”
The timing of the announcement has raised questions on whether Iran is using the trio to bargain with the US over its nuclear program.
Iran has one other American in custody, an academic sentenced last month to 12 months’ jail for his alleged role in the recent political unrest.
Under Iran’s Islamic sharia law, espionage is punishable by death.
Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd before their capture
Video of Josh raps on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibyiSIdm4O0&feature=player_embedded
Video of the 3 hikers dancing on YopuTube
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FREE THE US HIKERS SHANE BAUER, SARAH SHOURD, JOSH FATTAL, DETAINED IN IRAN
On July 31, 2009, Shane, Sarah and Josh were hiking near the Ahmed Awa waterfall in Iraqi Kurdistan when news reports say they mistakenly crossed the unmarked border into Iran. Since then, they have been detained in Iran and have had no contact with their families.
Shane, Sarah and Josh were in Iraqi Kurdistan on a hiking vacation and had no intention of entering Iran. They all have great respect for different cultures and societies and for the law. If they did enter Iran, it can only have been by accident.
Defend the rights our soldiers died for -
Defend the rights our soldiers died for -
Elizabeth James,
North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Torah teaches: ‘Justice, justice, you shall pursue’
Deuteronomy 16:20
Oy vey!
Why should North Shore readers get uptight about the tribulations of a 65-year-old Montreal taxi driver who is headed to court and to the Human Rights Commission, because he refuses to pay $1,400 in municipal fines?
Fair question, especially when we discover that he has ignored not one but six fines, the first of which dates back three years or more.
He has no-one to blame but himself, right?
We should care because, time and again, we have asked our soldiers to go to war to defend the Canadian and Quebec Charter rights of citizens to enjoy freedom of expression and of religion. Specific to this story, Canadian soldiers fought, and are still fighting and dying, to protect the rights of people like Arieh Perecowicz — a Canadian of the Jewish faith — should he wish to enjoy small mementoes of his family and faith in his workplace. Nothing in either charter — documents superior to those of bureaucratic bylaws — bans anyone from doing so.
The workplace Arieh speaks of just happens to be the taxi he drives around Montreal for 15 hours of the day.
It’s a case of common-sense justice.
To set the stage:
Arieh has been driving cab in Montreal since 1966; no troubles, no passenger complaints and, so far as I can discover, no tickets.
For most of those 43 years, he has carried with him two mezuzahs — tiny parchment prayers for a safe journey common to his faith. They are fixed to the frame between the front and back seats of the cab. He also carries photos of his wife and son, a blue and white Star of David, a Remembrance Day poppy and another tiny flag — the red and white Maple Leaf. These are the symbols of everything that makes Arieh the man he was, is, and wishes to be.
He treasures the symbol of Canada — a country that prides itself on being tolerant to all; a country that professes its belief in freedom of speech and religion and that, for one day every November, honours the veterans of past and present wars by wearing the poppy in its collective lapel.
How ironic, then, that this cabbie must go before a court and a tribunal to defend those rights all over again — in a province, no less, that has cost us dearly in its own constitutional struggles to be unique above all others in Canada.
This is because 30 years along Arieh’s travels, a municipal agency, the Bureau du Taxi, was established to administer the bylaws that cover licensing and safe operation of city taxicabs — and administer they did.
One of the city bylaws states: Every driver must ensure that the interior of the taxi is clean, remove papers and litter, empty ashtrays, and leave no object or inscription that is not required for the taxi to be in service or that is not provided for in this bylaw.
The loopholes for an officer’s subjective opinion are large enough to drive a bylaw van through; but this cabbie knew his taxi and his 43-year record were clean. He had been inspected on numerous occasions by both Transport Quebec officers and Bureau inspectors and passed with flying colours.
Arieh had no reason to worry about regulations until, in December 2006, the first of the tickets arrived — less than a week after he and several other drivers appeared on television to complain that the Bureau was failing to regulate unlicensed, out-of-city cab companies. Such a coincidence.
But who among us believes in the coincidences of government?
Why is it that, for example, drivers of Greek descent who display photos of the Virgin Mary, or others who hang rosary beads near their rear view mirror have received no tickets?
Arieh is in no position to hire a lawyer. So, after his court date has been set back six months to April 2010, Arieh must now defend himself against the power of Montreal bylaw officers, who have declared he has no right to be overt in the expression of his beliefs.
As Arieh explained in a weekend radio interview with CKNW host, Roy Green, “I am not especially religious; these tokens are just the stuff most of us have on our desks or pin to the cork-boards at work because they make our world a more pleasant place.
“None of my passengers has ever complained. Not about my driving; not about the condition or safety of my cab, and certainly not about my tokens.”
So to answer the question posed at the beginning of this story: Whether or not we are “especially religious,” for the sake of our country, and to honour the soldiers who defend it, we need to care; for inasmuch as it has been done unto Arieh Perecowicz, it has been done unto us all.
This column is in honour of all who have served, and are serving, in Canadian Forces around the world to defend the values we hold dear. It is also to offer condolences to the families of the 133 Canadian soldiers who have died in Afghanistan — most recently, Lt. Justin Garrett Boyes, 26 and Sapper Steven Marshall of Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, both of whom lost their lives to IEDs within days of their deployment in October.
Elizabeth James is a North Shore writer and editor.
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Yaghoghil Shaolian detained in Iranian-prison accused of espionage
Yaghoghil Shaolian has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison
Latest News:
Latest Update:
Breaking development:
Family Information:
Edwin Shaolian living in Los-Angeles, California, USA is a cousin of the Grandfather of Yaghoghil Shaolian, on the Father’s side. The Father was a prisoner in Iranian-prison.
Ms. Senehie is Yaghoghil Shaolian’s Aunt, being his Mother’s Sister, lives in L.A. California.
Yaghoghil Shaolian’s Father’s name is Yosseph, Yosef, Josef , Yoseph, Yossef, Joseph, and his Mother’s name is Lita.
A close friend of the family named Sharona.
We are waitting to make contact with the family in Iran…
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
An email reply from Professor Hon. Mr. Irwin Cotler, MP
(Mount Royal, Lib.) Canadian Parliament
RE: Yaghoghil Shaolian, 19
| From: | CotleI@parl.gc.ca |
| Sent: | October 29, 2009 1:13:37 PM |
| To: | ariehperecowicz@msn.com |
Dear Arieh,
Thank you for your e-mail regarding Yaghoghil Shaolian.
I have been working in concert with others to free the detainees. Indeed I spoke yet again about this in Parliament today and will be doing so again tomorrow.
We will keep doing what we can.
Irwin Cotler
The above email was in responce to the following email from
October 21, 2009
From: Arieh Perecowicz [mailto:ariehperecowicz@msn.com]
Sent: October 21, 2009 9:48 PM
To: Cotler, Irwin – Riding 1; Cotler, Irwin – M.P.; Mr. Howard Liebman
Cc: Enza Martuccelli; Enza Martuccelli
Subject: FW: Yaghoghil Shaolian, 19
Hello Mr. Cotler and Mr. Howard,
I suppose, it is time to investigate as to whether Yaghoghil Shaolian is still alive and his where about,
than to do ALL we can to get him FREE!
Three months in an Iranian-prison, for a teenager, is 92 days to long!!!
Time for action if it is not too late?
Arieh Perecowicz ariehperecowicz@msn.com
CELL : 514-235-4225
ADDRESS: 5450, Cranbrooke Ave. Apt. #106,
Cote-St.-Luc, (Mtl.), Quebec, H4X-2E1
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Iran: Religious Freedom
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the human rights situation of the Jewish community in Iran since July 2009; and if he will make a statement. [293293]
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Mr. Ivan Lewis: The situation of the Jewish community in Iran has long been of concern to us. Its members have suffered discrimination under the Islamic Republic: for example, Iranian Jews are barred from running for President, and from a number of professions, such as the armed forces. President Ahmadinejad’s repeated denials of the Holocaust— most recently at the UN General Assembly in September—only serve to increase our concern.
We have been disturbed by the Iranian authorities’ response to the protests that followed the disputed June 2009 presidential election, and in particular by the death and imprisonment sentences handed down in recent days. One of those convicted was the Jewish teenager, Yaghoghil Shaolian. He has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. We are seeking more information about his case, as well as those of the other defendants, and will raise our concerns with the Iranian authorities, since those convicted and sentenced appear to have been denied a fair trial.
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Iranian Jewish teenager Yaghoghil Shaolian, appears in court for his alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election on in Tehran, Iran on August 16, 2009. Iran began the third mass trial on Sunday of those arrested on charges of rioting following the disputed presidential vote in Tehran. UPI/ILNA/Hoshang Hadi Photo via Newscom
Yaghoghil Shaolian, 19, Jewish-Teenager
17 August, 2009
By Nasser Karimi Associated Press Teheran
August 16th, 2009
Iran defies condemnation, expands opposition trial
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran expanded a mass trial of opposition supporters on Sunday with the addition of 25 defendants — including a Jewish teenager — in defiance of international condemnation, as France said Iran agreed to release a French woman held on spying charges from prison…
The trial, now in its third session…
The U.S. last week labeled the event a “show trial.”…
The additional defendants brought the total number being tried to 135…
A 24-year-old French academic, Clotilde Reiss,… was freed Sunday from an Iranian prison,…
France is also asking for all charges to be dropped against another of its citizens, Nazak Afshar…She appeared during a previous court session before being released from prison…
One of the new defendants was Yaghoghil Shaolian, 19, a member of Iran’s Jewish community, which numbers about 25,000 people. He was quoted by the semiofficial Fars news agency as saying that he was not an activist but that he got caught up in the moment and threw stones at a Tehran bank during a protest.
Iran’s only Jewish parliamentarian, Siamak Mereh Sedq, confirmed the detention of Shaolian and his Jewish identity to The Associated Press. He said the detention was not connected to his religion and that Shaolian is innocent.
Yaghoghil Shaolian, 19, was quoted as saying he did not join the protests, but just threw some stones at a bank branch in central Tehran on June 14, resulting in his arrest.
The report said lawyer of Shaolian asked the court for a reasonable and fair prosecution due to Shaolian’s youth.
Iran’s sole Jewish parliamentarian, Siamak Mereh Sedq, confirmed the detention of Shaolian and his Jewish identity to The Associated Press.
“I have been pursuing his case since we learned about his detention,” said Mereh Sedq. He said Shaolian’s detention was not related to his religion.
“He is innocent, we hope to see his release soon based on Islamic mercy,” he said.
Shaolian’s trial is the first time a Jew has been tried in Iran since 2000 when 13 Jews were charged with spying for Israel.
“I have been treated with good behavior in jail, specially considering that I am from a religious minority,” Yaghoghil Shaolian, a 29-year-old Jew, said during the third court hearing of those detained during unrests after June 12 presidential election in Iran.
Also during his defense, Shaolian apologized to the Iranian people and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei for his participation in the unrests.
According to indictment filed against him by Tehran’s prosecutor general, Shaolian is accused of acting against national security through participating in illegal rallies, vandalizing and setting ablaze public and private properties and propagation against the Islamic Republic.
The prosecutor opened the trial with a general indictment of all 25 defendants, accusing them of plotting the post-election disturbances years ahead of time, said the state news agency.
The semi-official Fars news agency reported one of the people on trial belonged to Iran’s Jewish community.
Yaghoghil Shaolian, 19, was quoted as saying he did not join the protests, but just threw some stones at a bank branch in central Teheran on June 14, resulting in his arrest.
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Swedish, the so-called enlightened and Liberal Europeans?
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Swedish, the so-called enlightened and Liberal Europeans turning a blind eye to real human rights abusers, anti-Semitism satire clip a hit hitting Sweden’s sensitive nerve – MUST be seen!
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Media Advisory – Avis Aux Medias
Media Advisory – Avis Aux Medias
Attention : Éditeur de tâche
POUR DISTRIBUTION IMMÉDIAT
Le 8 Septembre, 2009
Un chauffeur de taxi de Montréal conteste des tickets discriminatoires du
Bureau du Taxi devant la Cour Municipal de Montréal le 29 Septembre
2009
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Montréal – le 8 Septembre, 2009 – Arieh Perecowicz, un chauffeur de taxi
Montréalais de religion juive, sera devant la Cour Municipal pour contester des tickets reçus du Bureau du Taxi de Montréal qu’il considère injustifiés et même
Discriminatoires. Alors, pour avoir dans sa voiture une photo de sa fille et du
leader (Rabbi) de mouvement Chabad Lubavitch, ainsi que 2 mezuzahs et un coquelicot du jour du Souvenir, il devrait payer plus de $1400 en amendes.
Le procès commencera le 29 Septembre à la Cour Municipal. Mr. Perecowicz
Conteste la section 98 du règlement au motif qu’elle est inconstitutionnelle.
Il se disputera que la Ville de Montréal a dépasse son autorité, et a viole sa
Droite constitutionnelle à la liberté de religion et la liberté d’expression.
Quand : Le 29 Septembre, 30 et le 1 Octobre, 2009 à 9:30 h
Où : Cour Municipal de Montréal,
775 Rue Gosford Montréal,
Montréal, Québec
Chambre #1.10
Pour les informations supplémentaires ou une entrevue:
Arieh Perecowicz
5450, Cranbrooke Ave. Apt. #106,
Cote-St.-Luc, (Mtl.), Quebec, H4X-2E1
Cell: 514-235-4225
Email: ariehperecowicz@msn.com
Attention: Assignment editor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 2009
TRIAL TO BEGIN IN CASE CHALLENGING CITY’S RIGHT TO BAN PATRIOTIC AND RELIGIOUS OBJECTS FROM CABS
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Montreal – September 8, 2009 -The trial in the case of The City of Montreal – v- Arieh Perecowicz will begin on September 29th at Montreal Municipal-Court. The Defendant will plead that the City illegally issued a slew of tickets in retribution for his public campaign to get the Bureau du Taxi to crack down on illegal-taxis.
He will also argue that the City of Montreal exceeded its authority, and violated his constitutional right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression, by ordering him to remove a picture of his rabbi and car’s mezuzah (among other objects) from his cab.
When: September 29, 30 and October 1, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
Where: Montreal Municipal Court,
775 rue Gosford
Montreal, Quebec
Room #1.10
For additional information or to schedule an interview contact:
Arieh Perecowicz
5450, Cranbrooke Ave. Apt. #106,
Cote-St.-Luc, (Mtl.), Quebec, H4X-2E1
Cell: 514-235-4225
Email: ariehperecowicz@msn.com
Probe urged into Iran jail RAPE While the WORLD is SILENCE
Probe urged into Iran jail RAPE
While the WORLD is SILENCE
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/200981083847122429.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8192660.stm
200 people arrested during the mass protests… several women and men were repeatedly abused by their jailers… detained girls have been sexually assaulted with brutality… Young boys held in detention have also been savagely raped… they were suffering from depression and serious physical harm after the alleged attacks… deaths of at least three people in custody… tortured to death…
Iran authorities kill 7 lawyers
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418544518&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Report: Iran authorities kill 7 lawyers
Seven lawyers in Tabriz and Mashhad who had been representing young Iranians detained in post-presidential election protests have been killed by the Iranian authorities in recent days… Their deaths have deterred other lawyers from taking detainees’ cases… the bodies of five lawyers were returned to their families earlier this week… The five had been representing some of the hundreds of Iranians detained in the northwestern city during the post-election protests… They were so badly beaten that their families could barely recognize their faces… were made an example of by the regime -… they were framed by the regime’s local authorities… The regime’s aim was to discourage other lawyers and activists from taking their places…
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418543771&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
‘Press association in Iran shut down’
Why Are We Silence?
A TRIBUTE in MEMORY to Nir Katz and Liz Trubeshi
A TRIBUTE in MEMORY
To Nir Katz and Liz Trubeshi
Murdered
In an Israeli gay Youth- Support
Community-centre in Tel-Aviv
1 August 2009
For those who know the story behind Dana International she sings & performs about her/his personal (Ani) winning (Nizachti) against homophobia in Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xzVpagLjPs&feature=related
Dana International- Ani Nizachti
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Dana International – Ani Nitzachti (New Version)
Tribute In Memory of the Murdered Nir Katz & Liz Trubeshi
In Memory of the Murdered Nir Katz & Liz Trubeshi
Gunman attacks Israeli gay
community-centre in Tel-Aviv
Troubled times in our society
קשה מאוד להאמין שיכולה להיות כזאת רשעות, כזאת שטנה, לגדוע חיים של בני נוער שעדיין לא טעמו את טעם החיים
It is very hard to believe that can be such an evil, such a hate, to chop life of youth that did not yet taste the taste of life
It’s inconceivable that in the state of Israel, there are entire sectors in which the issue is taboo in their education establishments
There is NO Democracy withOUT Equality
כאן היתה שנאה, אהבה לא הורגת
הזכות לאהוב מוקנה לכל אדם
He was only 26… She was only 16…
‘He always walked with his head high’
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http://www.gay.com.br/blog/destaques/2009/08/02/nir-katz-e-liz-trubeshi-vitimas/
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780 Victims of Nigerian clashes buried in mass graves
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/03/nigeria.violence/index.html
780 Victims of Nigerian clashes buried in mass graves
[…] bury them as soon as possible […] bodies being exposed to northern Nigeria’s heat […] 3,600 people were displaced in the attacks […] fighting comes amid attacks by the Muslim militants […]
CANADIAN MUSLIMS fail to denounce recent terrorist attacks
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Deathly+silence+over+jihad/1847101/story.html
Deathly silence over jihad
CANADIAN MUSLIMS fail to denounce recent terrorist attacks
By TAREK FATAH, Freelance July 31, 2009
Some Islamic scholars teach the concept of holy war.
[...] Some Canadian media ensure jihad is never mentioned in the same sentence as a terrorist attack [...] and the ideology and theology that require Muslims to wage [...]
The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) is Deathly Silence over Jihad while: Jihadi Islamists carried out a terrorist attacks in Indonesia, causing many casualties, the Muslim-dominated parts of northern Nigeria, where more than 200 people have been killed, and killed & maimed dozens of Muslims in Jakarta.
‘He always walked with his head high’
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Vigil for TA attack held in Jerusalem
[…]Solidarity with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) after two people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Saturday night […] people congregating to honor the dead […] a horrible reminder of the serious threats to the democratic spectrum of liberties. Again we learn that no man is an island and no place is a safe bubble. We will not ask for whom the alarm bell tolls today – it tolls for all of us.” […]
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277951874&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
‘He always walked with his head high’
Nir Katz, the 26-year-old counselor killed in Saturday’s shooting attack in a Tel Aviv gay community center, had recently completed his army service as a career officer and had started computer studies at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center. He had been serving as a counselor at the center for several years and was there every Saturday to help teenagers come to terms with their sexual identity.
Gay community leader Noa Raz: Some family members leaned about children’s sexual identity from TV
Gay community leader Noa Raz: Some family members leaned about children’s sexual identity from TV
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277947570&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hunt still on for TA gay center shooter
[…] The two fatalities were named later as 26-year-old counselor Nir Katz, from Givatayim, and Liz Turbeshi, 17, from Holon. Their bodies were found in the center by paramedics [...] […] “Today, someone sent a message that gays in Tel Aviv and Israel are not safe” […]
- Tel Aviv resident: Shooter was the same as a Hamas terrorist
Gunman attacks Israeli gay community-centre
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/01/israel.club.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8180080.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8180127.stm
Gunman attacks Israeli gay community-centre
2 dead, 11 hurt in shooting
at gay club in Israel
A lone gunman has killed two people and wounded at least 10 at a gay support centre in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before escaping.
Most of the victims were gay teenagers, who were meeting at the centre on Nachmani street when the gunman entered and started firing indiscriminately.
The black-clad man is still at large and police have ordered the temporary closure of all gay clubs in the city.
Embedded video from CNN Video
Remembering Neda 40 days later:
Remembering Neda 40 days later:
Neda honored at Iran memorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pohCrHD-n4&feature=player_embedded
http://niacblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/first-videos-emerge-of-behesht-e-zahra/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwmEgOYX6vE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKSE8TtjtJM&feature=player_embedded
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8176946.stm
Mother’s tribute to shot Iranian woman
“I was worried about her being out there in the crowd”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8176053.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8176053.stm
The man who tried to save Neda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8119658.stm
‘She died in less than a minute’
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