Pope Go Homo
The Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, a man appointed to his job for life by cardinals who were themselves appointed by the previous Pope(s) has again apologised during an address in Australia for the ‘pain and suffering’ caused by the ‘misdeeds’ of priests — that is the systematic rape and abuse of children by clergy and the [...]
Teacher sentenced to death in Iran
A 33 year-old Kurdish teacher and trade unionist has been tortured and sentenced to death by the Iranian Supreme Court:
Kamangar was arrested in Tehran in July 2006 and since then has been held in various detention centres in Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Tehran. He was charged with Moharebeh, which literally means “enmity against God,” and with [...]
Release Meryem Özsögüt
The deeply authoritarian Turkish government is hostile to trade unions and considers them ‘terrorist’ organisations.
Ms. Meryem Özsögüt, trade union leader and management board member of PSI’s affiliate SES in Turkey (the trade union of public employees in health and social services) was arrested on the morning of 8 January following her participation in a press [...]
Et Cum Omnibus
The Catholic Church is an institution which will stop at nothing to protect it’s power, wealth and prestige. Here is the 2006 BBC Panorama documentary Sex Crimes and the Vatican, which exposes Crimen Sollicitationis, the Church’s blueprint for covering up the sex crimes crimes of the clergy and to
Impose fear on the victims and punish [...]
Italy is a country that has lost its memory: addendum
From the European Roma Rights Centre website, a report “Security a la Italiana: Fingerprinting, Extreme Violence and Harassment of Roma in Italy”, which contains
a concise summary of a series of discriminatory legal and policy measures targeting Roma recently enacted by the right-wing Italian government, in place since the April 2008 elections. The report also includes [...]
