http://www.memri.org/reform.html
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=reform&ID=SP194508
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1945
June 2, 2008 No. 1945
“Saudi Human and Women’s Rights Activist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar Speaks Out Against Honor Killings”
SNIPPET: “On April 7, 2007, a teenage Yazidi Kurdish girl named Du’a Al-Aswad was stoned to death by a lynch-mob in Iraq, because she had violated her family’s honor. A video of the stoning, filmed by the participants themselves using their mobile phones, was posted on http://leilamagazine17.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_6785.html .
A year after the stoning, Saudi reformist and human rights activist Wajeha Al-Huweidar wrote a scathing article in which she harshly criticized the sexist character of Arab culture and particularly the phenomenon of “honor killings.”
The following are excerpts from her article, which appeared on the reformist website www.aafaq.org.”
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/7724.htm
Iranian Deputy Information Minister: We’ll Expand Our Cooperation With Syria
Iranian Deputy Minister of Information, Research, and Technology Ali Reza Jahangirian has said that thanks to Iran-Syria cooperation agreements on biotechnology, seismography, and laser technology, cooperation between research institutes in the two countries will expand.
Jahangirian added that the issues of providing Iranian equipment to Syrian research institutes and conducting joint research came up at the meeting of the cooperation council.
Source: Mehr, Iran, May 31, 2008
Posted at: 2008-06-02