Experiments with truth: 7/20/09

    •  For the second consecutive weekend, about 100 people in Salt Lake City staged a “kiss-in” to protest the treatment of two gay men cited for trespassing July 9 after they shared a kiss on the plaza owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    • More than 5,000 ethnic Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan’s largest city yesterday to protest China’s use of deadly force to quash Uighur protests this month.

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