Tanzania: Miners plead for time to make positive contribution
Posted on | oktober 8, 2012 | No Comments
Small miners in Tanzania have called for the government to give them enough space so that they can make positive contribution in the nation’s economy.
This call was part of the deliberations made after a three days capacity building for small miners that was organized by three NGOs namely Policy Forum, HakiMadini and Interfaith Standing Committee for Economic Justice and Integrity at the Ubungo Plaza.
Listening to various experiences from best practices namely from Ghana and South Africa they resolved that they will find ways so as to strengthen their organizations and face their challenges more professionally.
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Tags: cyanide > Indigenous > Koranteng > mineral > miners > Tanzania > WACAM
Six and Sixty
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Sunday, October 7, marks six years since Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment elevator. The assailant shot her four times, three in the chest, and once in the head, the trademark of a contract hit. Also on Sunday, incidentally, Vladimir Putin will turn sixty years old. Six and sixty. There’s symmetry in the numbers, the one marking a death, the other a birth. But Putin and Politkovskaya have been linked for a while now. That is, at least since the former became (acting) President of Russia in December 1999. Only six months prior had Politkovskaya begun writing for Novaya gazeta, where she spent the rest of her career covering the gruesomeness of Putin’s war in Chechnya. Her murder on Putin’s birthday (which many think was a perverse present to the leader) formally cemented the link between the two rivals, perhaps forever.
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Tags: Chechnya > Khadzhikurbanov > Makhmudov > Novaya gazeta > Politkovskaya > Putin > Russia > Warscapes
Five Prisoners Were Hanged in Shiraz (Southern Iran) Today- Two Hanged Publicly And Three Hanged In The Prison
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Five prisoners were hanged in Shiraz (southern Iran) yesterday reported the Iranian state media.
The official website of the Iranian judiciary in Fars Province, reported that two of the prisoners were hanged publicly in different squares of Shiraz, while the three others were hanged inside Adelabad prison.
According to the report the prisoners were identified as “A. P.” convicted of carrying 185 kilograms of heroin and 72 kilograms of crack, “A. K.” convicted of participation in selling 39 kilos and 800 grams of opium and carrying 9 kilos and 960 grams of opium, “M. A.” convicted og carrying 4 kilograms of heroin, “A. S.” convicted og keeping and selling 29 kilograms of Marijuana and more than 14 kilograms of opium, and “A. Z.” convicted of keeping 2 kilograms of heroin.
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Tags: convicted > crack > hanged > heroin > Iran > marijuana > opium > prisoners > Shiraz
China: Detention of Shanghai-based human rights defender Ms Mao Hengfeng
Posted on | oktober 7, 2012 | No Comments
President Hu Jintao, The State Council General Office, People’s Republic of China
Your Excellency,
I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com.
I came to know about the situation from Front Line Defenders.
On 30 September 2012 Shanghai-based human rights defender Ms Mao Hengfeng was detained while petitioning in Beijing. She was apprehended by non-uniformed men and forcibly sent back to Shanghai, where she is being held on suspicion of “gathering a crowd to disturb public order”. Mao Hengfeng is a veteran rights defender and petitioner who has spent periods of time in re-education through labour, prison, psychiatric hospitals and under house arrest as a result of her activism.
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Tags: activism > China > Front Line Defenders > Hengfeng > Hu Jintao > Mao Hengfeng > rights defender > William Gomes > William Nicholas Gomes > Wu Xuewei
Uzbekistan: Arrest of human rights defender Gulshan Karaeva
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President Islam Karimov, Office of the President, Uzbekistan
Your Excellency,
I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com
I came to know about the situation from Front Line Defender.
On 27 September 2012, human rights defender Ms Gulshan Karaeva was arrested in her home in Qarshi and taken to a local police station where she was informed of charges brought against her. Gulshan Karaeva is Chairperson of the Kashkadarya regional branch of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan (HRSU). She was released on the same day after four hours’ detention at the police station.
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Tags: Front Line Defender > Gulshan Karaeva > HRSU > Karaeva > Karimov > Uzbekistan > William Gomes > William Nicholas Gomes
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