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Yang’s wife, Harvard medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, has said that Yang was placed in solitary confinement with handcuffs until his hands became bloodied and infected following his attempts to protest his detention...
...Even the most moderate Iraqi politicians have tended to see U.S. military action as part of the problem. President Bush doesn't tell his audience the whole story when he notes, in reference to Sadr's militia, that "ordinary Iraqis have marched in protest against the militants." It is certainly true that the confrontations in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala prompted thousands of Shiites to march demanding that Sadr's Mehdi army withdraw from those cities - but in most cases, those protesters were equally, if not more, insistent that the U.S. troops withdraw...
...groups on campus might benefit from a similar arrangement. It is disappointing that RUS and other Women’s Center supporters have chosen to politicize their demands for rooms of their own, on a campus where student space is at a premium. RUS put up a red protest tent on the Science Center lawn in April—eschewing the College’s proper, customary procedures to apply for student space in favor of a public, activist campaign. Such tactics beg College administrators to prioritize women’s space over other groups’ requests, and thus...
Each of these incidents is disturbing enough. But what is more disturbing is the reality that so little progress has been made to protest this trend—that for the most part, the discrimination has just been quietly tolerated. It is also clear that although racism targets underrepresented people everywhere, different minority groups have not achieved equivalent success in securing their rights within a racially intolerant society...
...country for 29 of the 44 years since independence. But since returning to democracy in 1999, Nigerians have been freer to vent their frustrations. More than 10,000 have died in clashes prompted by everything from Muslim protests at U.S. bombing in Afghanistan to the decision to hold the Miss World beauty pageant in Abuja, the capital. Many Nigerians argue that the real reason for the violence is not ethnic or religious division - most Nigerians have peacefully coexisted for centuries - but the scramble for scarce resources and political clout. Though Nigeria produces some 2.4 million barrels...