Showing posts with label BBC NEWS. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London
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| Julian Assange denies sexually assaulting the two women |
The founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by police in London.
The 39-year-old Australian, who was the subject of a European arrest warrant, denies allegations he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden.
Mr Assange is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court later.
A Wikileaks spokesman said Mr Assange's arrest was an attack on media freedom but it would not stop the release of more secret files.
Kristinn Hrafnsson told Reuters on Tuesday: "Wikileaks is operational. We are continuing on the same track as laid out before.
"Any development with regards to Julian Assange will not change the plans we have with regards to the releases today and in the coming days."
Secret locations
He said Wikileaks was being operated by a group in London and other secret locations.
Scotland Yard said Mr Assange was arrested by appointment at a London police station at 0930 GMT.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Hundreds die in Cambodian stampede (VIDEO)
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At least 339 people have been killed in a stampede during festival celebrations in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said.
Huge crowds had gathered on a small island for the Water Festival, one of the main events in the Cambodian year.
The stampede took place on a bridge. An eyewitness told AP news agency the trouble began when 10 people fell unconscious in the crowd.
The BBC's Mike Woodridge says it is a "tragedy on a rapidly growing scale".
The tragedy occurred during the high point of the Water Festival
At least 339 people been killed in a stampede during festival celebrations in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said.
Huge crowds had gathered on a small island for the final day of the Water Festival, one of the main events of the year in Cambodia.
The stampede took place on a bridge, which eyewitnesses said had become overcrowded.
Hundreds more people were injured in the crush.
Hun Sen described the stampede as the "biggest tragedy" to hit Cambodia since the mass killings carried out by the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
He said he had ordered an investigation.
The authorities had estimated that more than two million people would attend the three-day festival.
Panic broke out after a concert on Diamond Island, which followed a boat race on the Tonle Sap river regarded as a highlight of the festivities.
Sean Ngu, an Australian who was visiting family and friends in Cambodia, told the BBC too many people had been on the bridge.
People at both ends were pushing, he said, causing those in the middle to fall to the ground and then get crushed.
The bridge became jammed with people, some crushed under foot and others falling into the water.
Witnesses spoke of bodies littering the area.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
High-profile Portugal child sex abuse 'proved'
Comment: The following BBC article is a snapshot of the horrendous "global child sex abuse" industry's affect upon society. The governments around the world, including the United States of America and especially the Vatican, have worked diligently to cover up these atrocities against the most innocent human lives. It is time to Wake Up! You too, can join the "Global Political Awakening"!
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Seven defendants in a child sex trial in Portugal have been found guilty of abusing children in the care of a state-run home.
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| Abuse at Casa Pia is said to have started in the mid-1970s, but was not discovered until 2002 |
The six men and one woman include Carlos Cruz, a former TV presenter, and Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador.
Between them they faced hundreds of charges relating to the rape and abuse of 32 boys in the 1990s.
The boys, now aged between 16 and 22, were all residents at the Casa Pia children's home in Lisbon.
The judges in the case are still reading the full verdict in each of the hundreds of accusations, but the court has ruled that the vast majority of sexual abuse has been proven.
The main suspect was a former driver from Casa Pia, whom the court found had abused boys on hundreds of occasions.
He then began offering them to men, including Cruz, for cash.
Horrific injuries
Pedro Namora, a former Casa Pia resident now in his forties, hailed the result, saying: "I hope this day will allow us to show the country that the boys have told the truth from the start."
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| The seven convicted of abuse include Portuguese TV presenter Carlos Cru |
However, Cruz has dismissed the verdict as a "mistake" and the result of "a vendetta".
"This is one of the most monstrous judicial mistakes in Portuguese history," he said.
The three judges in the case are expected to take turns reading out a summary of the verdict, which is reported to run to several thousand pages.
The case is one of the longest-running in Portuguese history, lasting more than five years, with testimony from hundreds of people.
During the trial, the 32 victims gave gruesome testimony about being raped by adults in dark cellars, cars and secluded houses.
One of the victims, now in his early 20s, was so seriously abused that he is now incontinent.
Almost all of them identified their abusers by pointing them out in the courtroom.
However, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Lisbon says it is thought that there may be many other victims who are still too frightened to speak out.
The alleged abuse at Casa Pia is said to have started in the mid-1970s, but was not discovered until 2002, when the mother of a boy placed at a state-run home in Lisbon said he had been abused by staff there.
Casa Pia is a 230-year old institution which cares for about 4,500 needy children through a network of 10 homes.
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