ADVISORY/Media Advisory: Congressional Briefing.News Editors/Lifestyle Editors/Political Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (March. 6) WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2003 Real Life Stories of Persecution Persecution Albigenses medieval sect suppressed by a crusade, wars, and the Inquisition. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 53] Camisards uprising of Protestant peasantry after the revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685 was brutally suppressed by the - The Testimonies of Exiled ex·ile n. 1. a. Enforced removal from one's native country. b. Self-imposed absence from one's country. 2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country. 3. Iraqi Women Women for a Free Iraq Iraq or Irak (both: ēräk`, ĭrăk`), officially Republic of Iraq, republic (2005 est. pop. 26,075,000), 167,924 sq mi (434,924 sq km), SW Asia. , a diverse group of Iraqi women, will meet with House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce Deborah D. Pryce (born July 29, 1951 in Warren, Ohio) is an American politician from Ohio. She is a Republican and is currently a member of the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's 15th congressional district, which includes the western half of Columbus and the (R-OH R-OH Alcohol (chemistry) ) and other congresswomen to share personal stories of suffering under Saddam Hussein's regime and thoughts on democracy in a post-Saddam Iraq. Members of Women for a Free Iraq are expected to meet with the White House and have met with Prime Minister Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair and other European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. leaders.
WHO: Confirmed Congresswomen:
House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce (R-OH-15)
U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL-13)
U.S. Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI-10)
Additional members of Congress have expressed interest and
will confirm soon.
Women for a Free Iraq representatives:
Zainab Al-Suwaij
A Shi'a from Southern Iraq, Ms. Al-Suwaij was 20 years old
when she participated in the 1991 failed uprising against
Saddam Hussein. She escaped to the United States, where she
now heads the American Islamic Congress (www.aicongress.org),
a Boston-based organization dedicated to building interfaith
understanding.
Dr. Katrin Michael
Dr. Katrin Michael is a Chaldean (Christian) from Northern
Iraq who joined the Peshmurga (Kurdish resistance) movement in
1982 to fight against Saddam Hussein's regime. A victim of
chemical bombings by Saddam's forces, she fled Iraq in 1988
and has been living in the United States since 1997.
Kanar Sarraj
A Kurd from Northern Iraq, Kanar Sarraj worked with the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) and local
Iraqi humanitarian organizations in the 1990s, assisting the
victims of Saddam's 1987-1988 Anfal campaign against the
Kurds. In 1996, she was threatened by the regime and evacuated
with her husband by the American government and granted asylum
in the United States.
Tanya Gilly
A Kurd from Northern Iraq, Tanya Gilly comes from a family of
political activists opposed to Saddam Hussein's rule. Her
father was arrested on several occasions for his resistance
activities, and the family was forced to flee Iraq in 1970s.
Ms. Gilly has worked for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
(www.puk.org), one of the two parties that governs the Kurdish
safe haven.
WHEN: 12:30 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, March 6, 2003
WHERE: Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill
The Capitol, Room H-312 (Rules Committee Hearing Room)
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