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Pakistan: 'Anti-women' cabinet riles activists
By: The Guardian, November 12, 2008
Two notorious politicians accused of brutal attitudes towards women have been made cabinet ministers in Pakistan, causing outrage among human rights activists. Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, charged with presiding over a "jirga" which gave away five young girls as a form of compensation, and Israrullah Zehri, who recently made international headlines after defending the burying alive of women in "honour-killing" cases, have been elevated to ministerships.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/12/pakistan-gender-anti-women-cabinet China: Courts refuse to accept lawsuit by detained applicant to Olympics
By: Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 12, 2008
On November 12, Liu's lawyers went to Xigong District People's Court in Luoyang City, Henan Province to file an administrative lawsuit against Luoyang RTL Management Committee, which made the decision to send Liu to RTL. To the lawyers' surprise, the Court refused to accept the case. According to "regulations" by "higher authorities", said a court clerk, all administrative lawsuits filed by individuals challenging the decision to send them to RTL due to petitioning "cannot be accepted". The lawyers received the same response when they went to Luoyang City Intermediate People's Court, a court at a higher level.
http://crd-net.org/Article/Class9/Class10/200811/20081112122631_11708.html Burmese activists get stiff sentences
By: RFA, November 12, 2008
Burma's courts have handed down sentences of up to 65 years to more than a dozen members of the country's pro-democracy movement, relatives said. Fourteen members of the "88 Generation" student pro-democracy movement were given terms of 65 years in prison, while 10 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) opposition movement received eight to 24 years each, according to relatives.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burma/sentences-11122008065526.html Activists say Burma junta behaving lawlessly
By: DVB, November 12, 2008
Recent sentencing of activists to 65 years in prison highlights lawlessness and dearth of justice in Burma, insisted their relatives and pro-democracy activists. 14 members of 88 generation students including Ko Min Zayya, Ma Mie Mie, Ma Nilar Thein, Ko Jimmy, Ko Than Tin, Ko Pandate Htun, Ma Cho Cho Myint were sentenced by a court in Rangoon Insein jail yesterday...
http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=1929 Taiwan: At the protest frontline
By: Global Voices, November 11, 2008
It seems that many people, especially if you are outside Taiwan, found the recent protest against Chen Yinlin in Taipei confusing. Bob pointed out that in China, some incidents in the protest were interpreted as democratic violence. Such impression is probably a result of the mainstream media report on the violent scene. You may want to ask what had happened during this long day, Nov 6th? Why did so many people decide to demonstrate in the street? How did the violence happen? Let's take a closer look at and listen to these protesters.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/11/taiwan-at-the-protest-frontline/ Senior Chinese leaders taunt Tibetan leader, speak of his passing
By: Globe & Mail, November 11, 2008
After the near-total breakdown of talks between China and the Dalai Lama's representatives, Beijing has made it bluntly clear that it is looking beyond the Dalai Lama to the era that will follow his death.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081111.wtibet11/EmailBNStory/International/home Clashes over China port protest
By: RFA, November 11, 2008
One woman is injured and a man detained after police clash with islanders staging a sit-in in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. One man has been detained and a woman injured in clashes between police and villagers protesting at the construction site of a planned U.S. $160 million international container terminal in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/protest-11112008144555.html China: Inter-ethnic/interfaith leadership conference
By: Initiatives for China, November 10, 2008
On November 9, the Fourth Annual Interethnic/Interfaith Leadership Conference held at Harvard University concluded on a note of unity and renewed commitment to advancing human rights, democracy, and the rule of law for all the peoples of China. The conference, funded in part, by the National Endowment for Democracy, and sponsored by the Boston-based democracy group, Initiatives for China, was attended by more than sixty delegates from virtually every ethnic and religious group under the rule of the Chinese government.
http://initiativesforchina.org/2008/11/10/interethnicinterfaith-leadership-conference-concludes-with-joint-declaration-of-unity-and-a-letter-to-president-elect-obama/
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