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For 2 women-they killed 44+21
Alexandria: a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Coptic church in Egypt, killing 21 people and wounding 79 in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of “foreign hands”.
There was no immediate claim, but Al-Qaeda has called for punishment of Egypt’s Copts over claims that two priests’ wives they say, had converted to Islam were being held by the church against their will.
The bombing in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria sparked fierce anger among Christians, who clashed with police and shouted slogans against the government. A Health Ministry official said 21 people were killed and 79 wounded, and the Interior Ministry said eight of those injured were Muslims.
A witness had told a private television he saw a car park outside the Al-Qiddissin (the Saints) church shortly after midnight, two men get out and the explosion happen immediately afterwards. But the Interior Ministry ruled out the hypotheses of a car bomb. Saying it was” probable that the bomb… was carried by a suicide bomber who died among the crowd”. The device was packed with pieces of metal to cause the maximum amount of harm, it added. Mr. Mubarak echoed that, saying the bombing bore the hallmark “of foreign hands”.
Some 15 hours after the bombing, growing members of Christians were continuing to vent their anger.
By mid-afternoon, hundreds of youths in small groups in the neighbourhood of the church were showering rocks and bottles on police, who responded with teargas and rubber-coated bullets.
The attack comes tow months after gunmen stormed a Baghdad cathedral in an operation that left 44 worshippers, two priests and seven security forces dead. That was claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Iraq affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which said its purpose was to force the release of the two women in Egypt.
The Copts account for up to 10 percent of Egypt’s 80 million population, and often complain of discrimination and have been the target of sectarian attacks.
No Law – No conviction: China
Beijing: In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in china, a court has convicted a man for raping his male colleague and sentenced him to one year to jail.
The judges who heard the case in a private session “in consideration of the victim’s privacy” sentenced Zhang for one-year imprisonment for causing injuries to Li.
Zhang deliberately injured another person, resulting in minor injuries to the victim, which constituted the crime of international injury, the court ruled.
In addition to serving his jail term, Zhang was also ordered to pay Li 20,000 Yuan (USD 3,026) in compensation. Although Zhang was convicted of intentional injury rather than rape, he is probably the mainland’s first person sentenced for sexually assaulting a man, the report said.
“The frequency of same gender sexual assaults has continued dramatically increase in recent years,” he said. Ministry of health HIV/AIDS and homosexuality expert Zhang Beichuan said: Many countries’ laws stipulate that males can be rape victims, so perpetrators are held criminally responsible. China’s criminal law should include such definitions to properly handle such cases in the future”.
3yr old kidnapped for Rs: 20/-
Mumbai: For a mere Rs 20, a whimsical alcoholic, in an inebriated condition, abducted a three-year-old boy from a vegetable market in Kandivali and moved around in a rickshaw between Andheri and Kandaivali. Five hours later, Samta Nagar police nabbed him.
According to the Samta Nagar Police, it was around 5 pm that Subash Vishvakarma (50), a vegetable vendor and a resident of Hanuman Nagar, went to the vegetable market in an inebriated condition. There he came across a 43-year-old, Sita Soni, who was carrying her grandson, Aryan. Subhash begged Soni for Rs 20 to buy a bottle of liquor to which the later refused outright.
An angered Subhash, lifted Aryan and vanished in the crowded place, while an unaware Soni was busy bargaining onions. Soni after realising that her grandson had disappeared, phoned her family members who registered a case with the police.
Soon, the police officials with a photograph of Aryan in their hands, started searching for him in the entire market area. Luckily, one Ganesh Parab identified the kid and told them that he knew Subhash, who was carrying the child.
Police traced his address and on reaching Subhash’s house, found out that he had locked it and moved out. They acquired his mobile phone number and asked Aryan’s grandfather to call him up, in order to conceal their identity.
Unaware of the fact that police were already probing the matter, Subhash threatened Aryan’s grandfather on the phone that if the latter informed the police, he would throw Aryan in a gutter. After tracing the phone calls police discovered that he was frequently changing his locations between Andheri and Kandivali. Police finally, nabbed him around 11.00pm from a rickshaw standing at Kandivali’s Shamshaan Bhumi and rescued Aryan unscathed.
Alexandria: a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Coptic church in Egypt, killing 21 people and wounding 79 in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of “foreign hands”.
There was no immediate claim, but Al-Qaeda has called for punishment of Egypt’s Copts over claims that two priests’ wives they say, had converted to Islam were being held by the church against their will.
The bombing in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria sparked fierce anger among Christians, who clashed with police and shouted slogans against the government. A Health Ministry official said 21 people were killed and 79 wounded, and the Interior Ministry said eight of those injured were Muslims.
A witness had told a private television he saw a car park outside the Al-Qiddissin (the Saints) church shortly after midnight, two men get out and the explosion happen immediately afterwards. But the Interior Ministry ruled out the hypotheses of a car bomb. Saying it was” probable that the bomb… was carried by a suicide bomber who died among the crowd”. The device was packed with pieces of metal to cause the maximum amount of harm, it added. Mr. Mubarak echoed that, saying the bombing bore the hallmark “of foreign hands”.
Some 15 hours after the bombing, growing members of Christians were continuing to vent their anger.
By mid-afternoon, hundreds of youths in small groups in the neighbourhood of the church were showering rocks and bottles on police, who responded with teargas and rubber-coated bullets.
The attack comes tow months after gunmen stormed a Baghdad cathedral in an operation that left 44 worshippers, two priests and seven security forces dead. That was claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Iraq affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which said its purpose was to force the release of the two women in Egypt.
The Copts account for up to 10 percent of Egypt’s 80 million population, and often complain of discrimination and have been the target of sectarian attacks.
No Law – No conviction: China
Beijing: In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in china, a court has convicted a man for raping his male colleague and sentenced him to one year to jail.
Zhang Hua, 42, a security guard at Haosha Sports Centre in Beijing was accused of raping 18-year-old Li Jun (name changed) on May 9 last year in the company’s dormitory inflicting minor injuries on Li.
Zhang, a native of North-East China’s Jilin province was detained after Li complained to the police, state run ‘China Daily’ reported.
Rape, as defined by China’s criminal law, refers to forcing a female to engage in sexual intercourse against her will. Consequently, Zhang’s behaviour could not be legally classified as rape, the daily said in its report.The judges who heard the case in a private session “in consideration of the victim’s privacy” sentenced Zhang for one-year imprisonment for causing injuries to Li.
Zhang deliberately injured another person, resulting in minor injuries to the victim, which constituted the crime of international injury, the court ruled.
In addition to serving his jail term, Zhang was also ordered to pay Li 20,000 Yuan (USD 3,026) in compensation. Although Zhang was convicted of intentional injury rather than rape, he is probably the mainland’s first person sentenced for sexually assaulting a man, the report said.
“If Zhang had sexually assaulted a woman, he would be charged with rape and face a jail term of at least three years,” director of the Beijing based Zhongguangweitian Law Firm Lu Zheng said.
China University of Political Science and Law professor Hong Daode said he believed the case touched upon a flaw in the country’s legal system. Legislators hadn’t thought about the possibility that men could be rape victims or that women can also rape men,” he said.
The law should be changed to include these possibilities as soon as possible, Hong said.“The frequency of same gender sexual assaults has continued dramatically increase in recent years,” he said. Ministry of health HIV/AIDS and homosexuality expert Zhang Beichuan said: Many countries’ laws stipulate that males can be rape victims, so perpetrators are held criminally responsible. China’s criminal law should include such definitions to properly handle such cases in the future”.
3yr old kidnapped for Rs: 20/-
Mumbai: For a mere Rs 20, a whimsical alcoholic, in an inebriated condition, abducted a three-year-old boy from a vegetable market in Kandivali and moved around in a rickshaw between Andheri and Kandaivali. Five hours later, Samta Nagar police nabbed him.
According to the Samta Nagar Police, it was around 5 pm that Subash Vishvakarma (50), a vegetable vendor and a resident of Hanuman Nagar, went to the vegetable market in an inebriated condition. There he came across a 43-year-old, Sita Soni, who was carrying her grandson, Aryan. Subhash begged Soni for Rs 20 to buy a bottle of liquor to which the later refused outright.
An angered Subhash, lifted Aryan and vanished in the crowded place, while an unaware Soni was busy bargaining onions. Soni after realising that her grandson had disappeared, phoned her family members who registered a case with the police.
Soon, the police officials with a photograph of Aryan in their hands, started searching for him in the entire market area. Luckily, one Ganesh Parab identified the kid and told them that he knew Subhash, who was carrying the child.
Police traced his address and on reaching Subhash’s house, found out that he had locked it and moved out. They acquired his mobile phone number and asked Aryan’s grandfather to call him up, in order to conceal their identity.
Unaware of the fact that police were already probing the matter, Subhash threatened Aryan’s grandfather on the phone that if the latter informed the police, he would throw Aryan in a gutter. After tracing the phone calls police discovered that he was frequently changing his locations between Andheri and Kandivali. Police finally, nabbed him around 11.00pm from a rickshaw standing at Kandivali’s Shamshaan Bhumi and rescued Aryan unscathed.
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