[DAWN] A Ottoman Turkish court incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! a paedophile a record 572 years for abusing 18 children at the school where he worked, reports said on Tuesday, as alarm grows over the extent of child abuse in the country.
The court in the southern province of Adiyaman convicted the janitor after it was found he raped children and would sneak into some of the pupils' beds, Hurriyet daily said.
The defendant was found guilty of multiple crimes including "child sexual abuse" for which he was given 30 years for each of the 18 boys he abused, the newspaper reported.
He was also sentenced to 32 years for other crimes including "depriving someone of their liberty", "obscenity" and "blackmail", thus adding up to 571 years 11 months and 25 days, Dogan News Agency and Hurriyet reported.
The paedophile started working at a high school offering a specialised religious education, known as an Imam Hatip school, in 2012 but lived at the school between 2013 and 2015, the newspaper said.
At one point, the former cleaner would physically hit the children, force them to watch pornographic films, make them smoke as well as threaten the students, Hurriyet said.
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[Al Jazeera] Back in September 2016, at the 71st United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... General Assembly, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos triumphantly announced "the end of war in Colombia".
Since 2012, Santos' government had been negotiating with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), an gang that fought the Colombian state for over 50 years. In August 2016, negotiators announced a final agreement to end the conflict that had left 220,000 people dead and displaced millions. Last year, the rebel group relaunched as a political party, changing their logo of rifles for a red rose.
But the historic deal that brought peace to Colombia is now failing. This should come as no surprise after the political gymnastics Santos was forced to perform following the Colombian public's initial rejection of the treaty in an October 2016 referendum. For Colombia, this means an uncertain and problematic presidential election later this year and, worse, a possible end to an already wobbly peace.
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Two unidentified individuals died and three others were wounded in a shooting in Kazan in Tartarstan, Russia, according to a Russian language news account.
According to the report supplied by the pro Russian news outlet Russkaya Vesna, the shooter, a 37 year old man began firing weapons at a residential building Tuesday evening.
A local government fire team killed the shooter. Another deceased victim, an unidentified OMON officer, was wounded in the government's response, and later died while receiving medical attention.
OMON units are the replacement for the old Soviet militia, who maintained a police role in Russia
The shooting began after the shooter was released from prison after serving 10 days for hooliganism. The shooter subsequently found his wife was with another man, the shooter's brother.
An OMON unit response and exchanged gunfire with the shooter, who wounded the OMON officer.
A Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs report said that the weapon used in the attack was a hunting rifle. The unidentified shooter was drunk at the time of the attack.
[DAWN] The committee formed to probe into torture of a blasphemy suspect on Monday recommended departmental action against four interrogators of the Federal Investigation Agency.
The inquiry committee has sent its recommendations to the FIA Director General Bashir Ahmed Memon for further action.
The FIA director general had formed a committee led by Additional Director Syed Farid Ali Shah to investigate the incident in which the suspect, Sajid Masih, jumped off fourth storey of the building that housed agency offices, suffering critical injuries.
The inquiry was conducted against Inspector Khalid Saeed Shah, forensic department official Ali Afroz and two other officials for their alleged involvement in the torture and abuse of Masih during interrogation.
The suspect had alleged that an FIA team led by Inspector Shah subjected him to torture and tried to force him to "sexually assault" his cousin Patras Masih, who was enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! for posting blasphemous material on social media. He said he refused to comply with the "orders" and jumped off the building.
One of the committee members told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the probe had been completed after recording of statements of FIA staff and Sajid Masih.
He said the probe found the four members of investigating team guilty of negligence and suggested departmental action against them.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... the Cecil & Iris Chaudhry Foundation (CICF) president Ms Michelle Chaudhry expressed serious concern over the incident.
"We are outraged, shocked and horrified by the alleged behavior of the FIA Cyber crime Wing officials. We demand that the incident be investigated at the earliest and firm action be taken against the officials involved. These acts of brutality cannot be overlooked," she said.
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[DAWN] In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down a controversial amendment to the Elections Act 2017 that allowed ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... to resume party leadership after being disqualified in the Panama Papers case, the Central Working Committee of the ruling Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday elected Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... its interim president and the former its Quaid (supreme leader) for life.
While the Sharifs had made almost a similar arrangement by making Javed Hashmi the party president and Nawaz Sharif, who was then in exile, the Quaid during the military rule of Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , questions are being raised whether or not the fresh move allowing the elder Sharif to become the party’s supreme leader this time was in violation of the SC verdict.
To elect both brothers to their new offices, CWC members including Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Azad Jammu and Kashmire Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Senator Pervaiz Rashid attended the meeting at the Sharif family’s Model Town residence, where maverick Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Former Interior Minister of Pakistain under Nawaz Sharif. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that, since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... was conspicuous by his absence.
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[DAWN] The Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... circuit bench of the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) suspended on Tuesday the three-year jail terms handed down to 25 convicts in the Mashal Khan lynching case and ordered their release on bail.
In its short order, the two-member bench comprising Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Attique Shah suspended the punishments handed down to the 25 convicts by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Feb 7.
Mashal Khan, a student of the Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, was lynched by a mob of students, university staff and outsiders on April 13 last year after he was wrongly alleged to have committed blasphemy.
The bench seized with appeals against the ATC verdict, after hearing detailed arguments of the advocate general and retired Justice Fazal-e-Haq Abbasi, who appeared on behalf of the appellants, decided to set the 25 people free until a final decision on their appeals.
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Is he still dead?
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[Al Jazeera] The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has announced it will reopen its doors after Israel decided to suspend legislation regarding collecting taxes from churches and their properties in Jerusalem.
Following international pressure and rising protests from Paleostinian Christians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the formation of a committee to discuss the imposition of the property tax, or arnona, on Jerusalem's churches.
The decision came following a meeting between Netanyahu and the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, and after one of the holiest sites in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, closed its doors on Sunday in protest against the proposed legislation.
The committee will be headed by Tzachi Hanegbi, the Israeli minister of regional cooperation.
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The taxation is on the rental and commercial properties the various Christian churches own in and around Jerusalem, including the land on which the Knesset, Israel’s parliament sits, and on sales to private developers. The legislation would extend to the churches the same treatment meted out to synagogues.
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#1 & #2 - Ouch. My guess is that the tax savings from churches and their properties in Jerusalem is pumped back into various charitable purposes, with lite-graft. The committee needs to focus on the revenue gleaned and the charity given.
Does this seem screwed-up to anyone else? Paying perps $180K for mugshots?
[GatewayPundit] Three Muslim women won $180,000 for their suffering after they were arrested and forced to remove their hijabs for their mugshots.
The Muslim women said they felt exposed and violated after they were forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots.
One of the women, Mervat Soliman, 53, was arrested after a tussle with mother-daughter neighbors over a parking spot near her Glendale home in January 2015.
"New York City will have to pay out $180,000 to three Muslim women after forcing them to take off their hijabs for mugshots.
Three lawsuits were settled Monday in Brooklyn federal court stemming from the NYPD policy of photographing people wearing religious head coverings, the New York Daily News reported. The three women settled for $60,000 each.
Some cases date to 2012, when a high school girl ‐ identified as "G.E." ‐ was arrested after a brawl with two other girls whom she thought spread gossip about her.
G.E. was initially brought to a local police station and was told to take off her hijab. G.E. refused and was taken to a secluded room where a female police officer took her photo outside the presence of any men, the Daily News reported.
But at Brooklyn Central Booking the police could not accommodate the girl’s religious needs, telling her that there were not any female officers available and that the camera is in a fixed spot, thus the mugshot could not be taken in a private room.
The girl alleged that a male officer then took her photo without a hijab, making her feel "exposed, violated and distraught" as she was forced to be without the Islamic garb for 20 minutes while male officers and prisoners looked at her."
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Her suffering consisted of being looked at by male police personnel. Really, 20 minutes of that is worth $60,000? The entire thing is proof that much of our population has lost their minds.
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Plenty of taxpayer dollars to go around, whilst harvesting a lot of virtue points.
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De Blasio has a policy of settling/vote-buying. It's not his money, anyway. Fine for a city with all kinds of inherited advantages, but untenable if he were mayor of Stockton, CA.
[DAWN] The US Supreme Court on Tuesday curbed the ability of immigrants colonists held in long-term detention during deportation proceedings to argue for their release in a ruling in sync with President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s get-tough approach toward immigration.
The court’s conservative justices carried the day in a 5-3 decision that overturned a lower court’s ruling that required that immigrants colonists held by the US government who are awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings get a bond hearing after six months of detention to seek their release.
The ruling could lead to indefinite detentions of certain classes of immigrants colonists, including some with legal status who the government wants to deport.
The court’s five conservatives were in the majority in the ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito, and three liberals dissented, including Justice Stephen Breyer, who sharply criticised the decision. Another liberal, Justice Elena Kagan, did not participate in the ruling.
Class action litigation brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the government’s practice of placing immigrants colonists facing deportation proceedings in detention for months or years without a chance to argue for release.
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Personally I don't think illegal aliens should have any standing whatsoever in an immigration court - including 'deportation'. They are not immigrants and, as such, should not enjoy any immigration processes. Simply dump them across the border without a hearing.
But that's just me...
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday sided with President Donald Trump’s administration and rejected an attempt by the state of California and environmental groups to stop the government from building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
The lawsuit filed in a San Diego federal court alleged that Trump's proposed wall violates federal environmental standards, as well as constitutional provisions regarding the separation of powers and states' rights.
The plaintiffs asked U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel to stop the administration from pursuing the barrier until it demonstrates compliance with environmental laws.
The wall, a key item for Trump's political base of supporters, has become a sticking point in talks to keep alive a federal program that protects from deportation young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children. Start the damn fence/wall. The Dems, like Paleos, can learn to negotiate from weakness and facts on the ground
In his latest budget proposal to Congress, Trump requested $23 billion for border security, most of it for building the wall.
Curiel said his decision on Tuesday was not based on whether the underlying decisions to construct the wall "are politically wise or prudent." Rather, Curiel said the Trump administration had not exceeded its legal authority in pursuing the project. Same judge Trump accused of probably ruling against him because he was a Mexican in the Trump U case. Heh.
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as constitutional provisions regarding the separation of powers and states' rights.
Okay, who of you ever expected to hear THIS argument from the Proggie Left Democrap party?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Two unidentified individuals died and three others were wounded in a shooting in Kazan in Tartarstan, Russia, according to a Russian language news account.
[DAWN] The committee formed to probe into torture of a blasphemy suspect on Monday recommended departmental action against four interrogators of the Federal Investigation Agency.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
Pervez 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
