Vietnam: Christian activists face prospect of death penalty
May 27, 2011
Three Mennonites who advocated on behalf of farmers whose land was sold by Communist officials have been charged with attempting to overthrow the government. If convicted, the three, who have been denied access to their families and an attorney, face the prospect of life imprisonment or the death penalty.
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Holocaust museum to feature priest's research into Nazi mass gravesMay 27, 2011
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will be making public the research of Father Patrick Desbois, a French priest who has documented 600 Nazi mass graves in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. The priest has devoted the last several years of his life to documenting the "Holocaust by bullets."
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- Information on Nazi-Era Mass Graves To Be Made Available to the Public (Jewish Daily Forward)
- Priest-researcher: Holocaust death count is low (CWN, 5/25/09)