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Katherine Brandt
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New “Theme Day” on Four Blue Hills, beginning Monday.
This “Theme Day” will henceforth be known as “Meet-a-Blog Monday”.
Rules: (I am making the rules, so reserve the right to change the rules.)
1. Mondays will be devoted to “Meet-a-Blog Monday”.
2. Each post will contain the ABOUT page of a blog, and ONLY the ABOUT page. (Oh, and the link to said ABOUT page, of course.)
3. There will be no less than five posts per day.
4. There will be no more than ten posts per day.
5. I pick ‘em, but am open to suggestions.
6. There will be NO limit on what kind of blog. Political, Humor, Photography, Activism, whatever “yanks my chain”, as the saying goes. Tho, rest assured, I have no chain to speak of. It is just an expression, you understand.
7. I can’t think of any more rules. I reserve the right to add or subtract from said rules.
P.S. As soon as I clicked “Publish”, I thought of another rule. (Murphy’s Law at work.)
8. I will not post any blogs that are solely for the purpose of SELLING items.
Egyptian army targets women protesters — War in Context
Egyptian army targets women protesters — War in Context.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reports:Local human rights watchdogs on Sunday accused the Egyptian military of systematically targeting female political activists, and demanded that Egypt’s military rulers admit to violations committed against demonstrators.
Egyptian army soldiers beat a woman protester
In a joint statement, five human rights organizations accused military rulers of exercising “unprecedented violence against protesters, with the targeting of female activists being a distinctive feature of the proceedings to disperse sit-ins, as depicted in pictures and video clips showing protesters being arrested, beaten, dragged and stripped of their clothes.”
In this video, army soldiers are seen beating an older female activist named Khadiga al-Hennawy.
While this video shows army soldiers dragging, beating and striping a female protester in the street.
The statement was signed by Nazra for Feminist Studies, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, the Hisham Mubarak Law Center and the Women and Memory Association.
They also called for the establishment of an independent judicial committee to investigate crimes against peaceful protestors.
Related articles
- Female protesters systematically targeted in Egypt say local NGOs (thoolen.wordpress.com)
- Troops, Police Shoot At Protesters In Pre-Dawn Raid On Tahrir Square (huffingtonpost.com)
- Egyptian troops, protesters clash again in Cairo’s Tahrir Square (theglobeandmail.com)
- Egypt stages another raid on Tahrir Square (cbc.ca)
- Boy, 15, shot as Egypt cops raid Tahrir Square (cbsnews.com)
- Outcry grows as Cairo violence continues – Sydney Morning Herald (news.smh.com.au)
- Protesters ‘Deserve to Be Thrown Into Hitler’s Ovens,’ Egyptian Military … – New York Times (blog) (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Egyptian military defends crackdown on demonstrators – MiamiHerald.com (miamiherald.com)
- Female human rights activist dragged to the floor in handcuffs and struck during clashes in Bahrain (dailymail.co.uk)
- US Tax Dollars at Work: Egyptian Army Viciously Beat Unarmed Girl… (hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com)
- Egypt’s dishourable cowards (painfultruths.typepad.com)
- Egyptian Army on Defense Over Violent Crackdowns (5min.com)
- “There are so many rocks, it looks like rain” (newstatesman.com)
- Egypt Protesters Outraged by Female Protester’s Beating (Video) (thedailybeast.com)
