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...smuggled mobile phone, who says he has seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim, 27, an opposition spokesman, rages that Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture of torture and abuse." On Sept. 19 guards at Maafushi beat to death inmate Hassan Eevan Naseem, a convicted drug abuser, sparking a riot in which three prisoners were shot dead. After Naseem's funeral the next day, a mob of hundreds rampaged through Mal?, torching and ransacking courts, election offices, police stations and other symbols of the regime...
...challenging his conviction. After a trial held in secret, an antiterrorism court in Hyderabad sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death by hanging. Sheikh's lawyer, Abdul Waheed Katpar, said the verdict had been based on "provenly planted evidence." The three other defendants in the case, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Sheikh Adil, were given life sentences. Their lawyer asked Sindh High Court to overturn their convictions, which he said were based on flimsy evidence. MALAYSIA Mixed Bag The main Islamic opposition party, Pas (Parti Islam se-Malaysia), retained one of the two seats it was fighting in the northern...
...Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release with snapshots of the captive journalist attached. One of the men, Fawad Naseem, told police Saeed had provided the photos to another accomplice, who had handed them to him. One of the conspirators even supplied Saeed's cell-phone number, which police dialed. After a brief chat, however, Saeed hung up, presumably realizing the call could be traced...
...bigger challenge may be for these communities to understand each other. Heightened interest in religion, and Islam in particular, means that "we have the chance for interfaith dialogue," says Mohammed Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque. Interfaith discussions, whether formal or informal, among leaders or in the media, are ways "we can develop more harmonious relationships...
...last semester with the expressed goal of fighting discrimination against Arabs. The 17 members of Harvard's chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a national organization with chapters of 40 to 50 campuses nation-wide, will try to respond to incidents of stereotyping, according to chapter founder Naseem T. Tuffaha...