Zoom employees disrupted meetings where China was criticized, and even framed CCP critics by posting child pornography from their accounts, U.S. Government says.
by Marco Respinti
June 4, 2020 was the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square carnage. Several conferences were planned in the U.S., but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they had to move online. When June 4 came, the organizers felt that something was wrong. Some of the events' participants abruptly showed images of child pornography or slogans praising terrorism. Even when this did not happen, events were interrupted by Zoom and the accounts of the organizers were terminated.
Soon it became obvious that this was not coincidental, but part of a CCP plot to prevent the events from happening—a plan using as agents Zoom employees. On June 11, Zoom issued a public apology, acknowledging that Chinese authorities had contacted them since May about the Tiananmen meetings, stating that any participation by Chinese citizens would have been illegal under Chinese law. Zoom claimed that, since they cannot prevent any specific participant from attending a meeting, they canceled the whole meetings to comply with the Chinese requests, but canceling the accounts of the organizers had been a mistake.
Soad Thabet was "punished" in Egypt in 2016 for an alleged affair her son had with a Muslim woman. Now, her torturers have been found not guilty.
by Daniela Bovolenta
It was May 20, 2016, a day like many others in the village of Karam Abu Omair, in the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt. Suddenly, the houses belonging to the local Coptic Christian minority were surrounded by an angry mob of some 300 Muslims. They set fire to several homes, shouting that the Christians should leave the village—or else.
The mob searched the homes of the terrorized Christians. They were looking for a specific person, a 70-year-old woman called Soad Thabet. Her attempts to hide failed. She was found, stripped naked, and paraded in the streets of Karam Abu Omair, with the crowd insulting and threatening her. Her house was also burned.
What did Soad do to infuriate her torturers? Allegedly, her son had an affair with a married Muslim woman of the village, the wife of his former business partner. Both the son and the woman deny the rumor as untrue, and generated by the collective paranoia against Coptic men "stealing" Muslim women.
