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The Media Review Network welcomes a group of prominent Palestinian politicians and senior academics who are in Gauteng to study South Africa’s transition to democracy.
The 12-person delegation includes representatives of all the Arab political parties of Israel, including 3 secretaries general and other senior party activists, as well as 3 leading Palestinian academics from Israeli universities. The Arab parties represent Palestinians who live in Israel as citizens but experience systematic discrimination as non-Jews in a Jewish state. The delegation has come to learn about South African apartheid and the ANC struggle, seeking insight into their own experience of discrimination in Israel and new ideas for resisting it.
During their two-week programme, they will have talks from senior ANC and other political veterans and will tour key sites of struggle like Constitution Hill and Soweto.
Members of the delegation represent a political spectrum and have varying views on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. All are experts on discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel and can discuss problems regarding housing, services, jobs, education, and health care.
They are available to share their views with South Africans who may be interested in Middle Eastern Affairs via radio and / or television appearances. Interested persons should contact Orna Kohn at 012 370 7000 (Velmore Hotel: Room 22)
** Issued By:
Ibrahim Vawda
Senior Researcher
Media Review Network
012 374 6987
(Media Review Network is an advocacy group based in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa)
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Ethnic Uighurs have their bags searched in the main square in Xinjiang’s famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China’s far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region in August.
China today published a list of eight alleged Muslim terrorists based overseas it said had threatened the Beijing Olympics, and appealed to other countries for help in capturing them.
Chinese police released photos of the eight men, aged between 31 and 43, who were said to belong to the outlawed East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and are now believed to be living in other parts of Asia or the Middle East.
"They all took part in plotting, organising and executing various terrorist activities targeting the Beijing Olympic Games," Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping told reporters as he announced the most wanted list.
The ETIM — listed by China, the United States and the United Nations as a terrorist organisation — has been striving for many years to create an independent homeland in the Muslim-populated Chinese region of Xinjiang.
Xinjiang is a vast area of mountains and deserts that borders central Asia, and many of its 8.3 million Uighurs, a Muslim minority speaking a Turkic language, say they have suffered decades of repression under communist rule.
Uighur dissidents and some human rights groups have said China has exaggerated the threat from so called terrorists in Xinjiang to justify a harsh security crackdown there.
Sapa-AFP
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(source: Arutz Sheva)
The Swedish-based International Legal Assistance Consortium awarded South African justice Richard Goldstone its first Stockholm Human Rights Award on Thursday night. The award cites Goldstone for his work in South Africa, Yugoslavia and Rwanda, among other places, in addition to the report he wrote which accused Israel, and to a lesser extent Hamas of crimes in last winter’s Operation Cast Lead counterterror operation.
The consortium runs a program in what it calls the "Occupied Palestinian Territories" which "is mainly to support the Palestinian Bar Association," according to the group’s website. Those occupied territories include Gaza, which has not had a full-time Israeli presence since the Israeli government uprooted Gaza Jews in 2005.