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The reason for the detention of two South Africans in Uganda would only be known after the SA High Commissioner there has visited them, hopefully on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
Spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said that so far no charges had been put to the two relief workers, and further information and decisions on a course of action would only be known once this visit had taken place.
Mufti Hussain Bhayat and Haroon Saley were detained last week during a stopover at Entebbe International Airport in Kampala.
Uganda’s New Vision online newspaper said they were taken in for questioning by a joint anti-terrorism task force. However their family’s lawyer Yousha Tayob said he had not received any firm reason for their detention.
The Muslim Judicial Council is concerned that the two may be the subjects of Islamophobic profiling in the wake of an international anti-terror crackdown. – Sapa
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Demonstrators Breached a Gate in the Wall in Deir alGhussoun
By Jonnathan Pollak
(source: PSCC)
Israel’s Separation Wall was breached today near the West Bank village of Deir alGhussoun, when Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators who intended to march to lands that were left isolated behind the Wall, managed to break open one of the barrier’s gates.
The demonstrators managed to break the lock on the gate by rocking it back and forth, despite the presence of soldiers, who shot rubber-coated bullets and teargas at the protesters. One demonstrators was lightly injured after being struck with a rubber-coated bullet in the leg.
By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
(source: Gush.Shalom.org)
Dear Friends,
I write to ask for your help in gaining the freedom of a good man, a man of peace, and a man of conscience.
In the Jewish scriptures there is great emphasis on justice and freedom and it is for such, for one man, that I write to seek your help. He will not be aware that I am writing this Appeal, but I do so in the hope that, with your help, it will produce his freedom, and not (and this I must risk) cause yet more punishment and cruelty to be inflicted upon him.However, I feel when I tell you the story, it will touch your hearts and there will be those amongst you who will be able to help him gain his freedom.
In May,2010, this man was returned to prison to serve three months for allegedly breaking his prison release restrictions and speaking to Foreign Media. On Sunday llth July,2010, he had his first visit in seven weeks. His brother, Meir, was granted a 30 minute visit. There was a glass window between them and they spoke via the phone. He wore a prison uniform. He is held in the hardest prison section there is in the prison. It has the most notorious criminals in the country, well known hard murder cases. All about a dozen are in severe isolation conditions. He is in a cell by himself for 24 hours a day, no window but a small wire covered crack at the top part of one wall.