SAN'A, Yemen -- A Yemeni court has ordered an opposition weekly newspaper closed for six months after finding it guilty of publishing an article that it said incites sectarianism and tarnishes Islam's image, a newspaper executive said Sunday.
In its Saturday verdict, the court also ruled that Abdul Rahman Abdullah -- the editor-in-chief of the Tagammu newspaper, which is owned by an opposition party -- and Abdul Rahman Saeed, the article's author, be barred from writing for a year, said Mansour Hael, the paper's deputy editor-in-chief.
** Yep lets close down our enemies tarnishing Islam. And lets ransack other newspapers...A group of gunmen on Sunday went on a rampage inside the offices of the online newspaper Donia al-Watan in Gaza City, destroying furniture and equipment and threatening to kill the editor-in-chief, Abdallah Issa.
No one was hurt in the attack, the latest in a series of assaults on journalists and media organizations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Donia al-Watan is an independent newspaper that has been reporting extensively on corruption and lawlessness in the Palestinian Authority - issues that the PA-controlled media often tend to ignore.
** And from the US of A...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn a $116 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization in the deaths of a Jewish couple near the West Bank.
The PLO, and its governmental entity, had been sued in federal court in Rhode Island over the 1996 drive-by shooting of Yaron Ungar, an American citizen, and his Israeli wife, Efrat, as the couple returned home from a wedding.
The family’s relatives argued that the PLO and Palestinian Authority provided a safe haven and operational base for the Islamic militant group Hamas, which was responsible for the attack. A judge issued a default judgment after the PLO did not respond to requests for depositions from Yasser Arafat and others.
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the lawyer for the PLO, told justices in the appeal last month that Ungar relatives have “commenced sweeping national and international efforts” to collect the millions of dollars, including an attempt to seize Palestine’s U.N. Mission building in New York.
Clark said U.S. courts “are marching off to the conflicts of the Middle East and elsewhere carrying with them the integrity of the U.S. judiciary and risking the foreign perception that U.S. courts will extend their jurisdiction globally deciding the most sensitive political questions affecting the foreign policies of the U.S. and other nations as they go.”** And more...
Millions of pounds donated by British and other European charities to help the Palestinian poor were unwittingly diverted to fund terror and support the families of suicide bombers, Israeli prosecutors claimed yesterday.
Ahmed Salatna, 43, a Hamas activist from the West Bank town of Jenin, was remanded in custody by a military court charged with distributing €9m (£6.2m) for such purposes over the past nine years. The recipients are alleged to have included the family of a young man who blew himself up at the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in August 2001, killing 15 people and wounding 107. Hamas and Islamic Jihad acknowledged responsibility.
The charge sheet names two British charities, Human Appeal International and Interpal. Human Appeal is a broadly based fundraising organisation, currently helping victims of the Pakistani earthquake. Interpal describes itself as “a non-political, non-profit-making charity that focuses solely on the provision of relief and development aid to the poor and needy of Palestine”. No one was available for comment at its London office yesterday. Other charities mentioned were the French CBST, the Italian ABSPT and the Al-Aqsa Foundation, which operates in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden.
** Oh and lets support gay rights as well...
DUBAI — More than two dozen gay men — arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding — could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities said yesterday.
The men are likely to be tried on charges related to adultery and prostitution, said Interior Ministry spokesman Issam Azouri. ...
“Because they’ve put society at risk they will be given the necessary treatment, from male hormone injections to psychological therapies,” he said. ...
If some of the men are determined to be deficient in male hormones, they could be ordered to undergo hormone treatment, Azouri said.
Azouri suggested that other countries with laws based on religion, including Christianity and Judaism, also ban gay behaviour and marriage.
“It’s not about freedom of opinion, it’s about respecting religion which forbids this type of behaviour,” he said.
0 people have spoken:
Post a Comment